Where does oil that is ‘cooked away’ go?

Question

We all have this experience of cooking something only to have to keep re-adding oil as it ‘cooks away’, but what actually happens to the oil? Is it absorbed by the food we’re cooking? Does it burn away? And specifically, what happens to the calories in the oil?

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Answer 1

I deep fried some chicken wings and a week later oil started dripping onto my stove from the overhead vent.