is the weight based on raw or cooked weight
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J9Lynn93
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I am sure the answer is somewhere in these posts, but I cannot find it. If I am making steak, for example, and I search and use a food as a grilled steak, is the weight the cooked weight or the original weight of the steak raw? This question I guess is also for veggies, is the amount the raw amount or the amount after cooked?
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I usually use the raw entries and weigh raw. Cooking technique affects how much water the finished product has in it and that can affect the finished weight.0
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I believe it is ..... if you weight it cook, log it cooked. If you weigh it raw, use the raw in logging.0
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Search the database for whichever you want to use.
[USDA beef tbone steak raw ounce]
[USDA beef tbone steak cooked ounce]
Or insert "vegetable" and the name thereof for "beef tbone steak".
Also works for hamburger, rice, etc.0 -
I personally weigh it cooked and then I am careful to log it using entries for cooked meats. I do veggies and such while raw, but I can't stand handling raw meat.0
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Raw whenever possible.0
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gaelicstorm26 wrote: »I personally weigh it cooked and then I am careful to log it using entries for cooked meats. I do veggies and such while raw, but I can't stand handling raw meat.
This is why I go by store package weight whenever possible. :P I hate raw chicken.
Or, when I buy in big packs, get a big freezer bag, grab meat with hand in inside out bag, flip bag over to close, weigh bag and write weight on it.
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So since I weighed it cooked, I logged it under grilled fillet mignon. If I would have weighed it raw, I would look for a listing of raw filet mignon. That makes sense, thanks0
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I weigh it cooked because oftentimes meats, especially inexpensive cuts of steak, have portions that are inedible. Then I weigh and subtract the inedible portions.0
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