I'm teaching myself how to cook and I also want to be somewhat healthy.
My diet is absolutely pitiful now and I'm afraid of getting things like Cancer, Chron's, etc.
Trying to understand
Chicken breast = healthy
Olive oil = healthy
Heat up a frying pan and cook a chicken breast in olive = unhealthy ???
Can someone who understands cooking and nutrition explain to me why fried food is unhealthy?
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Cooking chicken in olive oil is fine. Fried chicken is not cooked in olive oil.
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Bake or broil the chicken breast, tastes better than fried. Just learn how to keep it from drying out.
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BuffaloBob wrote:
Bake or broil the chicken breast, tastes better than fried. Just learn how to keep it from drying out.
Definitely sous vide the chicken if you don't want chrons. Any other methods gives you chrons. -
BuffaloBob wrote:
Bake or broil the chicken breast, tastes better than fried.
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jamin wrote:
I'm teaching myself how to cook and I also want to be somewhat healthy.
My diet is absolutely pitiful now and I'm afraid of getting things like Cancer, Chron's, etc.
Trying to understand
Chicken breast = healthy
Olive oil = healthy
Heat up a frying pan and cook a chicken breast in olive = unhealthy ???
Maaaaaan you need to look up recipes for fried chicken. What you described is not fried chicken!
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jamin wrote:
I'm teaching myself how to cook and I also want to be somewhat healthy.
My diet is absolutely pitiful now and I'm afraid of getting things like Cancer, Chron's, etc.
Trying to understand
Chicken breast = healthy
Olive oil = healthy
Heat up a frying pan and cook a chicken breast in olive = unhealthy ???
Use canola oil, not olive oil. Use olive oil if you're having salad. Don't use too much oil in the pan.
Drain the grease from the frying pan while the chicken is frying into a cup and toss that in the garbage. Not down your sink.
When you've fried the chicken, it still has grease on it. Use paper towels to get it off.
Knock on your neighbours door if you still have problems with this stuff. Just be honest 'I'm trying to fry chicken, I could use some help'. Or look up a YouTube video 'healthy frying chicken breast'. -
Cook like Tanya, look like Tanya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3q5dcl1hU -
Gordon has probably better recipes.
I like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDJNfV7hjk -
There's much science around this one. As a rule, the awful oils are high in Omega 6. Cocounut Oil is low around there, as is Olive Oil. So evading canola, sunflower and numerous others and so forth will be a disclosure for your wellbeing. Try not to devour any high Omega 6 oils if whatsoever conceivable.
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You need to find a wife to cook for you.
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Frying oil is usually pretty unhealthy to start with, and you wind up eating a lot of it in fried food, but that's not the main problem. At restaurants, they don't change the oil all that often (some more often than others), and the oil degrades over time. Nasty stuff like trans fats and lipid peroxides accumulate the longer it's used.
At home it isn't as much of an issue as long as you aren't reusing the oil. But you're still eating an awful lot of vegetable oil when deep frying, and some foods form carcinogens when fried. Many oils give off toxic fumes at heat, so you'll want a good oven hood. -
When you heat an oil past it’s smoke point, you generate free radicals, which are associated with cell damage. I’d recommend using avocado oil if you’re cooking in oil: smoke point is 520 degrees F compared to 350-410 degrees F for Olive oil
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oldschoollrc wrote:
You need to find a wife to cook for you.
Jamin finally realized that this will not happen.
So learning to cook is his only option. -
Chicken is full of hormones, don't eat it unless you want man boobs.
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Fried meats produce advanced glycation end products (AGE) that gets partially absorbed in digestion. Aside from the free radicals, as another commenter mentioned, those AGE's make your skin look old and cause crosslinking in the gollagen of your tendons, making them inelastic. All of your collagen, even the collagen around your blood vessels, suffer the same crosslinking fate. Why get old prematurely?
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ryan evans wrote:
BuffaloBob wrote:
Bake or broil the chicken breast, tastes better than fried. Just learn how to keep it from drying out.
Definitely sous vide the chicken if you don't want chrons. Any other methods gives you chrons.
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californiaScreamin wrote:
When you heat an oil past it’s smoke point, you generate free radicals, which are associated with cell damage. I’d recommend using avocado oil if you’re cooking in oil: smoke point is 520 degrees F compared to 350-410 degrees F for Olive oil
^ This. Not to mention cancer risk. But also question why you think Chicken might be "healthy"? I mean there are lots of different ways to get lean protein. -
The extra fat contained in fried foods adds empty calories with little nutritional value.
Most people are overweight already and do not need more empty calories.
You really want to saute the chicken breast using as little olive oil as possible, and not dunk it in a pan full of hot oil. Use just enough oil to keep it from sticking. A very thin layer of oil coating the outside of the meat can help keep the meat from drying out during cooking.
The higher temperatures achieved in frying destroy vitamins and nutrients more than the lower temps common in other forms of cooking.
Many times foods are coated in a batter and then deep fat/oil fried. The batter adds extra calories, esp since it absorbs some of the fat and oil its being fried in. Again its extra calories with little nutritional value.
Foods are frequently fried in fats and oils other than olive oil, including lard. These other oils and fats are frequently saturated fats and trans fats(unhealthier than other fats) and contain things like cholesterol, which most people do not need to consume more of.
