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Does heating up margarine in a pan makes it lose calories since more than half of it evaporates? Ex: using 1/4 of margarine and heating it up with onions. Will the dish still have 210 cals from margarine or will that number be lower?
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3Keep in mind that there are a lot of different products which are all sold as "margarine" but can have very different ingredients. – Philipp 11 hours ago
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As the answer notes, almost everything that is evaporating is water. To the extent that some of the margarine oxidizes or "burns" this will also reduce the calories. – James K Polk 8 hours ago
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No, because what is evaporating is water.
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Margarine can range from about 90% to 10% water according to EU standards; in Noemiee's example, ~60g is supposed to have 210 kcal according to, which would correspond to something like 50% fat margarine. So unless he boils off more than 50% of the margarine, your answer is likely correct. And of course, if he does boil off all the water, the fat is going to smoke long before its starts boiling, which is kind of hard to miss... – Luaan 11 hours ago
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The relevant US standard is "containing not less than 80 percent fat". – Dennis Williamson 6 hours ago
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1Yes. However, the OP did not cite either the origin of the margarine nor any specific measurements, so it's possible that it's either high-water margarine, or only 20% actually boiled away. – FuzzyChef 6 hours ago
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Depends on what temperature you bring it do. When doing something like this, the fat will boil and calories will be lost. I have actually boiled it away by mistake (and bad consequences for the onions involved).
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