Weighing boned chicken

incisron

When you weigh dark meat chicken like drumsticks, say for a 4 oz serving, is it meant to be weighed with the bone in or out? And say if you weighed 4 oz of dark meat without bone, would you be eating more calories?
Feeling nervous after I ate drumsticks.

Liftng4Lis

Weigh it, eat the meat, re-weigh the bones and subtract them.

incisron

Ok, so the weight is for the meat alone and not the bones? Just clarifying as I'm pretty worried.

sandsofarabia

Yeah, the weight is without bones.

queenliz99

incisron wrote: »

Ok, so the weight is for the meat alone and not the bones? Just clarifying as I'm pretty worried.

Why are you worried? You are talking of 25 calories or so.

Protranser

Same with ribs. Weigh the bones and subtract. Unless you're eating the bones, too.

allyphoe

Cooked dark meat chicken (no skin no bone) approximates 55 calories an ounce. I'd log 4 ounces of drumstick meat as 210 calories.

BurnWithBarn2015

Weight is for what you eat...so do you eat the bones.....

NikkiMichelleS

I've had this same question many times, but never asked!
What about the entries that differentiate bone-out? I sometimes assumed that meant the other listed USDA entries included the bone in.
I typically weigh entire weight of the drumstick, thigh, etc & then shave off a an ounce.
I never thought to weigh, eat, weigh just bones, for just the meat eaten weight. Duh. Thanks