how many grams in a teaspoon of vegetable oil?

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• How many grams in a teaspoon of vegetable oil?
  About 4.13 g. Three teaspoons make one tablespoon, which lines up with the standard 12.4 g figure. For recipes that call for '1 teaspoon oil to coat the pan,' you're really adding around 4 g of fat to the dish — a meaningful number if you're tracking macros, but invisible to the texture of most stir-fries or fried eggs.
• Is a teaspoon of oil enough to fry one egg?
  In a well-seasoned 8-inch nonstick pan, yes — 1 teaspoon (4.13 g) spread across the surface with a paper towel will fry a single egg without sticking. For a bare cast-iron skillet you'll want closer to 2 teaspoons so the white doesn't grab. Vegetable oil's high smoke point handles a hot pan better than butter for over-easy or sunny-side.
• Can I substitute vegetable oil teaspoon-for-teaspoon for melted butter?
  By volume, roughly — both pour similarly. By weight, melted butter is closer to 4.5 g per teaspoon versus 4.13 g for vegetable oil, so the difference is under half a gram. The bigger swap concern is flavor and water content: butter is about 16% water, oil is pure fat, so muffins made with oil come out moister but less rich-tasting than the butter version.

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