Fried Eggs

According to this site a large Fried Egg is 90 calories

I find that a little hard to believe when 1TBSP of oil is 100 calories and the egg itself is usually like 60-90 calories

When I eat a fried egg I usually count it as 150 calories

thoughts?

It assumes 1tbsp is not used? I find it best just to add ingredients that I use: large egg+amount of oil/butter.

UD

I build my calories from the ground up.  1/2 tablespoon of extra virgin is 60 calories and my raw egg is 70, so I count it at 130 calories (of course I really have two eggs so it is 200 calories plus whatever I add in).

Hmmm....  :::wonders if you could use cooking spray instead of the oil:::

or would it be a disaster...never tried it. Love fried eggs tho.  Even moreso....could you fry egg beaters?  hmmmmmm!

I often cook 4 egg whites (64) in 1 tb. of extra virgin olive oil (120) and call it 184 calories.

I have tried using EVOO spray, which the Nutrition Label claims is 0 calories for 1/4th second spray.  That's not realistic.  when I used the spray, I went for 2 seconds. So I figure it must have been around 60 calories, but it is difficult to know.  It is not logical that just because the label says 0 calories, that olive oil suddenly is calorie free.

You can definitely make a fried egg for about 90 calories, you would just need cooking spray and probably a non-stick pan would be best as well.

A full one-second dose of non-stick spray is about a gram of oil (according to my digital scale; ymmv) and therefore 9 calories.  Use an 80 calorie egg, and you'll have a 90 calorie fried egg.

Or, just use the amount of oil you prefer and add it up yourself!

By the way, pilgrimdude, I think you are probably overestimating your cooking spray consumption.  For a two second spray to be 60 calories, the can would have to be expelling almost 1.5 teaspoons (6.6 g) of oil.  If the brand you use is anything like mine, it is probably closer to 2 grams (18 kcal) for each 2 second spray. 

I love eggs!   I only use a teaspoon of canola oil to fry one egg and it works just fine (in a non-stick pan).  Less cals.

coreyander:  Thanks for the info.  I searched quite a bit on the Net trying to find an accurate amount given for spray.  It just seems odd to me that when I take a tablespoon of evoo and use my fingers to completely cover the edges and bottom of the small skillet that it doesn't seem any thicker than the spray.  Maybe I am spraying more than 2 seconds' worth.  Anyway, thanks for the update.  It still is questionable how the spice companies and spray-can companies can put 0 calories on all their products because they give the "serving" size so small that it is allowed.

I never log the cooked eggs.  It's much more accurate to log the egg and the amount of fat you actually use, as someone else already said.  Usually I make omelettes and find that a really good non stick pan makes it easy to use very little fat.  I have a cuisineart hard anodyzed aluminum saute pan that does a great job - the eggs never stick.

Well, not all the oil you use ends up on the actual egg you are eating too. You may put one tbsp in, but quite a bit of it gets spread around the pan and not eaten.

90 seems a reasonable estimate to me.

Original Post by craigversion2:

Hmmm....  :::wonders if you could use cooking spray instead of the oil:::

or would it be a disaster...never tried it. Love fried eggs tho.  Even moreso....could you fry egg beaters?  hmmmmmm!

 oh no not a disaster, thats what I use and dont even know the difference. I think 120 calories is a ridiculous waste on the canola oil I used to use. It works fine though I promise, lol

Original Post by coreyander:

You can definitely make a fried egg for about 90 calories, you would just need cooking spray and probably a non-stick pan would be best as well.

A full one-second dose of non-stick spray is about a gram of oil (according to my digital scale; ymmv) and therefore 9 calories.  Use an 80 calorie egg, and you'll have a 90 calorie fried egg.

Or, just use the amount of oil you prefer and add it up yourself!

By the way, pilgrimdude, I think you are probably overestimating your cooking spray consumption.  For a two second spray to be 60 calories, the can would have to be expelling almost 1.5 teaspoons (6.6 g) of oil.  If the brand you use is anything like mine, it is probably closer to 2 grams (18 kcal) for each 2 second spray. 

 my cooking spray has zero calories.

i think my cooking spray is 14 calls.

but unless when you cook you literaly lick the olive oil of the pan your probly not consuming all the calories in the oil you yoused to fry the egg in.

Original Post by pj_pumkin:

i think my cooking spray is 14 calls.

but unless when you cook you literaly lick the olive oil of the pan your probly not consuming all the calories in the oil you yoused to fry the egg in.

There is generally nothing left in the pan when I get done with it.

meh i dont know mabie they based it on a smaller weight egg?

It depends on how you cook it.  For me, I use a spray of non-stick, zero-cal mazola to keep the egg from sticking.

So when I fry an egg, it's 70 calories (eggland best, large brown egg).

I use a quick spray of butter-flavor Pam, which is zero calories, so all I count is the egg itself. 

Original Post by robin9395:

I use a quick spray of butter-flavor Pam, which is zero calories, so all I count is the egg itself. 

0 calories isn't quite correct.  There are some calories, but it's quite minor.

http://www.pam4you.com/pages/products/butter/ index.jsp

Original Post by fireye00:

Original Post by robin9395:

I use a quick spray of butter-flavor Pam, which is zero calories, so all I count is the egg itself. 

0 calories isn't quite correct.  There are some calories, but it's quite minor.

http://www.pam4you.com/pages/products/butter/ index.jsp

I was just going by what I just read on the can a few mins ago.  It said zero.  Hope they weren't lying. 

I just like to be as accurate as possible.  The FDA allows a certain amount of inaccuracy in labeling.  The recommended serving size for a spray of PAM is a 1/3s spray.  Given the 7cal count for 1s of spraying, that comes out to about 2 calories for 1/3s.  That's probably within some variance limit that the FDA has for saying 0cals.  Just like how any amount of trans-fats under .5g/serving in a product can be labeled in the US as "Trans-fat free".

I fry eggs with a pat of butter. I count the eggs and all the butter even though some of the butter is left in the pan.