Bacon - Weigh Before Or After Baking?

pitbullmamaliz

So I have some glorious pasture-raised, fresh bacon. Before cooking, it weighed 250 grams. After cooking, it weighed 80 grams. This is how I'm logging it, but do I use the pre- or post-baking weight? It's a huge difference.

250 g, Bacon - Baked - Usda Amounts

Sued0nim

Find the raw usda entry and use that

Or the cooked one

Sued0nim

Canadian bacon

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2599?fgcd=&manu=&lfacet=&format=&count=&max=35&offset=&sort=&qlookup=Bacon

110 calories per 100g uncooked

Baked bacon
http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2691?fgcd=&manu=&lfacet=&format=&count=&max=35&offset=&sort=&qlookup=Bacon

548 calories per 100g

Sued0nim

These are different types of bacon by the way hence the massive calorie differences ...

pitbullmamaliz

Found the raw USDA entry, thank you! That dropped the calories pretty significantly, so yay. Making bacon and egg cups with the fresh bacon and eggs laid 2 days ago. Pretty excited to eat them!

Sued0nim

Enjoy