Best Cooking Oils: Pam Cooking Spray Ingredients

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Pam Cooking Spray Ingredients

Nonstick cooking sprays like Pam and Mazola are convenient to use and boast fat-free cooking. But these products have also always seemed to us like one of those strange slightly-mystical products akin to Bac-Os bacon bits or pre-grated Parmesan cheese in a can. Just what the heck is nonstick cooking spray?!From what we can tell, most nonstick cooking sprays are simply an oil (usually canola) thinned out with water. The water and oil are kept suspended with an emulsifying agent like lecithin (found in egg yolks). Nothing terribly unnatural or artificial there. The spray delivery method also allows you to administer a much thinner coating of the oil than you could do by hand.Some of the mystery surrounds this idea that nonstick cooking sprays allow for fat-free and calorie-free cooking. This makes us scratch our heads a bit, seeing as how the main ingredient is oil and so far we haven't heard of any fat-free oils being produced.