Accounting for fat cooked out of food


(Ron) #1

Question, how do we account for fat that is cooked out of food?

For instance, if I buy 73/27 beef as opposed to higher protein, I end up with ALOT more grease on the bottom of the pan, so I’m not eating a good amount of that extra fat, it’s being cooked out. so at the end of the day am I really eating as much Fat : Protein as I think I am?


(Chris) #2

Other like-minded carnivores have come to the collective decision to eat their ground beef in a bowl and pour the grease back over it.


(Rob) #3

This is true, so if you just eat the meat, when you are recording the food, use a ‘cooked’ value which should account for an average value assuming some fat drainage if that’s what you do. A good example is bacon. The raw value may be 70 cal per rasher, but 50 when cooked (on average). What you do with the left over fat is up to you but @Dread1840 has the hardcore solution (and then you’d use the raw values)!!


(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #4

You could use the fat to make gravy . . . just sayin’. :bacon:


(Primalwoodsman) #5

You can simply weigh the fat you don’t consume and subtract that many grams of fat
Or like mentioned eat it.