Average weight of 1/2 an average mackerel?

tomatoey

I've been operating under the assumption it's somewhere around 162ish grams. (Yes I need to purchase a scale.)

eg 1/2 of something like this

http://www.seattleweekly.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=P$q5tQCxd_1vrse3UgI3d8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYv4PE1KXDSAWIBICVORbAJlWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg

tomatoey

_Terrapin_

Looking at the picture and taking the average radius of a lemon I'd say it weights 1/3 as much as a Coho in season and caught in the upper half of British Colombia in August.

tomatoey

lol thnx

jgnatca

Dimensions? Inches or centimeters will do. L-W-H.

tomatoey

Thank you, @jgnatca ! Ok, I don't have it front of me, will do in like 5 mins - but estimating based on what it usually is, viz a viz my hand, I'm going to call it at 8.5ish" L x 3ish"W x 1/2-3/4 inch H". Sorry I can't be more helpful than that

I have worried over this many times (and googled) but never sought to confirm it with our MFP public. Or a scale. I really need to get a scale

tomatoey

(it's like a regular mackerel like you'd see in a restaurant?) smh sorry lol

jgnatca

Diabetics are taught that a single serving of protein should be about the size of a "deck of cards" or the palm of your hand, which is 3.5" long, 2.25" wide, and about a half inch thick. So your mackerel is about 2 and a half times a single serving.

tomatoey

jgnatca wrote: »

Diabetics are taught that a single serving of protein should be about the size of a "deck of cards" or the palm of your hand, which is 3.5" long, 2.25" wide, and about a half inch thick. So your mackerel is about 2 and a half times a single serving.

THANK YOU Ok, that's roughly what I thought - around 7-8 oz

jgnatca

The mackerel on nutritiondata must be super skinny. It only comes out to 88g. A half cup of tofu which would be a similar serving size I would think and similar density, is 128g.

tomatoey

jgnatca wrote: »

The mackerel on nutritiondata must be super skinny. It only comes out to 88g. A half cup of tofu which would be a similar serving size I would think and similar density, is 128g.

Yeah, that has to be wrong!

I've now made a photo of my dinner w measuring tape my profile pic, bc idk how to post pics on here. I think I was close

jgnatca

I can see your fish, LOL! It looks delish.

tomatoey

jgnatca wrote: »

I can see your fish, LOL! It looks delish.

Haha Thank you! (It was, nom nom nom)