Best Cooking Oils: Spray Oil For Cooking

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Spray Oil For Cooking

The advantages of cooking spray, then, seem pretty clear. But there are drawbacks, or at least some things to bear in mind. While using cooking spray does indeed save fat and calories, it's not quite as simple as it seems. The small print says "For fat-free cooking," but that works only if you are skilled enough to limit your spray to the stated serving size of a "1/4 second spray." Elsewhere on the can, it states that a one second spray covers a 10-inch skillet, so four times the serving size. This one-second spray would push the fat content over 0.5g, which means the nutrition facts label couldn't round it down to 0g of fat. Few of us limit ourselves to a one-second spray, however. Most of us spray for two or three seconds, and some of us longer than that, just to make sure! In the scheme of things, we're still talking about relatively small amounts of fat, but the serving size on the can suggests a loophole is being used to make a specific claim.