Olive oil

[txcrew22]

I'm trying out this pam no-stick cooking spray(says it's 100% extra virgin olive oil)
ingredients: olive oil, grain alcohol, soy lecithin, propellant.

Is that good stuff in there? or should I just go with a bottle of olive oil?

I dont really cook so forgive me for the obvious question... but is spraying a bit of this in a pan and dropping a few eggs in there healthy? or is that like fried eggs? How much worse is it compared to normal boiled eggs?

[RacerBill]

I find using the spray oil is a good way to use just a small amount of oil. A one-second spray is 7 calories and just a bit less than a gram of oil. By cooking your eggs that way, it makes a bit of a calorie difference over boiled or poached but not a very big one. Cooked egg tends to cling to EVERYTHING, so I always use a nonstick pan for eggs, with a spray of olive oil Pam.

The added ingredients are just to help keep it spraying consistently. The grain alcohol evaporates in the heat of cooking. The lecithin is an emulsifier that keeps the oil and alcohol suspended together in the propellant gas.

If you tried pouring a bit of oil from a bottle into the pan, you will end up using at least several grams. That's more calories and more fat.

Olive oil is one of the "good" fats -- it's mostly monounsaturated. But like any oil or fat, it has a high calorie concentration, so that's a consideration if you're trying to achieve a certain calorie count or a balance of protein, carb and fat. Do you have some dietary goals in mind?

Hope that helps.

[txcrew22]

ah cool,
thanks for the great explaination.

I'm trying to follow up on Adam's diet and just eating a bunch of eggs, which is why I started cooking up my own in the morning.
a few calories is not going to hurt I dont think. and definately helps prevent the eggs from getting burnt to crisp(and with my cooking skills....they will anyways!!)