still learning, weighing??

jeannierenee85

Can someone tell me if I am suppose to weigh my meat before I cook it or afterwards? I am still learning all this stuff but wabt to be accurate :-)

callsitlikeiseeit

before

Liftng4Lis

Raw.

jeannierenee85

Okay thank you thats what i been doing so far to be safe but wanted to ask to double check

jeannierenee85

So if you have chicke. breast that was already cooked out for the family left over how would weigh it out or could you?

Liftng4Lis

Sometimes you have to make do, because you'll be in a situation where you're at a restaurant and have to guess. They have cooked items in the database as well.

atypicalsmith

MFP's database includes nutritional information for both cooked and raw meat, so I wouldn't sweat it. Best to weigh raw, but sometimes that's not always possible such as in the scenario you described above.

ana3067

Doesn't matter. Whatever state you weigh it in, log it that way. Half my meat is logged and weighed raw, the rest is done cooked. I also spent most of my time here in MFP weighing and logging cooked because I was making big batches of stuff, now I make more recipes that require mixing ingredients or I make single servings, so raw is easier.

ncboiler89

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

Raw.

How raw? Let's say I just hit it with a car. Do I weight it before or after I clean it?