Food calories and slow cooking

60muffin

Hello, this may be a stupid question to the veterans but can someone clarifyclarify the following please?

I use my slow cooker a lot. Do I take the calorific value of the raw foods I use or are there added/subtracted calories for the cooked ingredients?

Thanks

JenMc14

I'd use the recipe builder. Put in the ingredients raw, then, once you're done weight everything, then divide by however many servings you pick and put that in the recipe. Then measure out a serving.

MrsSylvie

to not drive myself crazy, i only weight & calculate food calories in their original/raw form..

TheopolisAmbroiseIII

In general cooked foods will have the same caloric content as their uncooked versions, however a steak or roast or chicken will weigh less after cooking than before because of water and fat cooking out of it. Log meats properly. If you weigh them cooked, log them as cooked. If you weigh them raw, log the raw version.

60muffin

Thank you

60muffin

Just used the recipe calculator, great tool. Thanks for enlightening me as I thought you could only import online recipes :-)