If I reheat a slice and its really greasy I usually blot it with a paper towel. Am I doing all that much or is it a waste of time?
As a WAG you probably get about a 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of oil off a slice or two by blotting. About 40 fat calories in a tsp of oil.
LOL!
I guess you could weigh the paper towel before you blotted, and then weight it post blot to get the weight difference. Based on that and the fact that… how many calories in a gram of oil/fat???
Google to the rescue…
9 calories per gram of oil
and there are approximately…how many grams in an ounce?
Google again!!!
Well, using Avoirdupois ounces (sounds french, but it’s the common American ounce that you would find on a mail scale, there are 28.350 grams in an ounce.
With those crucial data factors in mind, if you found that you sopped up say, 1/8th or 1/4th ounce of oil, you would be saving yourself 28.359.125 or .25 = 31.9 or 63.79 dietary calories per sop per slice.
Based on a 2k calories per day diet, that would be an actual percentage point or three of savings.
I suggest you keep blotting.
-Sandwriter
Which puts Astro’s WAG right at the midpoint of my painstaking research! That’s a pretty good WAG if I do type so myself.
If two dopers agree, then…
I can only find one vague reference to a study by “ABC Research,” which is a real corporation that does food testing, but I can’t find any other reference to this supposed study.
I imagine this is just one of those diet tips that spreads by word of mouth, that seems too good to be true. No matter how much you blot, there’s still going to be
a ton of fat in the sauce, cheese, and ingredients–otherwise it wouldn’t taste so damn good!
I’m not such how much grease one could remove from a pizza with a paper towel, but I would guess it won’t be very significant as compared to the calories contained in an average pizza.
You should rather eat a smaller slice if you want to reduce your intake. That’s more convenient and most probably much more efficient too.
Another tip I’ve read is to have veggies on your 'za. (The kids today don’t call it “za”, anymore, do they? I’m so old.) Anyway, lots of calories to be avoided in pepperoni, sausage, ham . . .
I’m young and I call it za (although I picked it up from my father) and I’m a big fan of the veggies. My favorite pie is white with spinach, tomatoes, and garlic, yum.
I used to do this, but then I stopped eating pizza that I don’t make myself.
It’s much easier to make healthy food than to buy it, cheaper as well - you just need to know what to do!
For instance, a pizza dinner for four - twenty 6-inch length round wedges - costs maybe six dollars to make, if you buy in bulk. It does take time to make the dough (you can buy it alone though) and you have to have an oven and the patience to make some mistakes the first time aoroundk but otherwise it’s all good.
Oh yeah - veggies are very very good. I used to think thaet pepperoni was the ony thing good on pizza. Now I’m into mushrooms and sliced bell peppers, often so thick you can’t see the cheese.
Oh yeah - cheese can bes good for you. There are varieties of mozarella - try a different kind if oil just comes dripping off the pizza after it’s been cooked and it’s still hot. Ther doesn’t have to be that much fat in there.