[quote]Doyle wrote:
darsemnos wrote:
I don’t think you’re supposed to use olive oil for frying. Aren’t saturated fats better for frying? My understanding, which may be incorrect is that frying olive oil, and most other cooking oils creates a lot of nasty things.
There is no good reason to cook in saturated fats, unless you WANT to have a heart attack.[/quote]
LOL.
Why post something without scientific merit? It just pollutes the forum.
[quote]milod wrote:
ayork90 wrote:
These “nasty things” are the same “nasty things” in processed vegetable oils, primarily because these vegetable oils are also brought to, and above a boil, one effect of which is causing a multitude of trans fats, which are synthetic versions of fats that your body uses to help stabilize blood cell walls, but because they are synthetic, and not able to communicate with the rest of the cell, they lead to blood cell breakdowns, arterial clogging, and more heart attacks.
Well, no, that’s not true. You cannot produce trans fatty acids from mono- or poly-unsaturated oils in your kitchen. Hydrogenated oils are produced by bubbling hydrogen gas through sealed containers of high-temperature vegetable oil in the presence of a metal catalyst such as nickel or platinum. They do not occur at temperatures commonly used in cooking, and there is not usually a source of hydrogen gas in your frying pan.
That said, overheating olive or any other seed or vegetable oil can begin a process of polymerization, essentially turning the oil into varnish, which is not good for you. But as long as you don’t see the oil smoking, you shouldn’t be afraid of cooking with olive oil. You may have better results cooking with a lighter olive oil instead of EVOO, as the lighter oils have higher smoke points.[/quote]
Thanks for clearing that up, I thought that was the case.
[quote]SpadeK wrote:
Geminspector wrote:
That has lot of calories.
I did an analysis for you. 443 calories (172 gr. breast)
Thanks.
But, I use thin cutlets so maybe it’s about 600?
That’s not too much for a meal.[/quote]
Doesn’t matter if they are cutlets or elbows. Weigh your food. It’s the only way to know how many calories you are consuming.