cooked meat weight vs raw meat weight

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  • stacey_rayner
    stacey_rayner Posts: 46 Member
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    brookechooka89 wrote: »
    I have a high school ratio math test question for you.

    Q.1.: If I have 1.8kg of raw roast meat

    ...then cook it

    The roast meat is now 1.2kg of cooked roast meat.

    If I measure 200g of cooked roast meat, what did it weigh raw?

    What is the calculation?

    A: (1800 / 1200) x 200 = 300

    It's all well and good to weigh raw food, but when you're cooking roast meats, it's hard to feel like you're not just guessing / over estimating / under estimating.

    I like to eat what's on my plate without feeling guilty that I've under calculated. I'm also a bit OCD when weighing so I like to be fairly close to the mark.

    I hope this has helped atleast 1 person out there :)

    Thank you it has. :)
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    edited September 2015
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    I do both. When I cook for more than one person, I just end up weighing it cooked. Lost 80 pounds. Not the end of the world. Steak is an approximation anyway as your steak won't have exactly as much fat as the next one. I make sure to use the correct entries though (or something similar... using some 92% lean beef tonight for tacos, and there's no cooked entry for that, so I'll use the 90% entry).

    For things like chicken legs you have no choice anyway, as the raw weight includes the bone but the nutrition info doesn't.. so unless you remove the bone before cooking, it won't be accurate anyway.

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