Weighing Cooked Meat

faithrainbow1

I know that ideally I should weigh my meat raw, but what should I do when eating a slice of a roast, for example? Add a percentage of weight to the weight of the cooked slice? Try to estimate the percentage of the entire roast, which I know the raw weight of?

Clawsal

Hi. If you want to be really accurate, you could weigh the entire roast raw (TWR) and the entire roast cooked (TWC). Then you weigh your cooked slice and multiply the number by TWR/TWC to get the raw weight of your slice.

Clobern80

Weigh the roast
Cook the roast
Weigh the roast

Then you have what the post-cooked weight is and can take the amount you cut and do maths to figure out what it would weigh uncooked.

Example:

Raw roast - 500g
Cooked roast - 420g

That means the cooked roast weighs 8.4/10 what the raw meat weighs. So roughly 4/5. You cut a slice that weighs 42g cooked, that means it weighed about 50g raw.

42 * 5/4 = 52.5

So not exact, but close.

But if you ask me, this is WAY too much work. So I got nothin'

maxit

USDA values include cooked meat - use usda cooked beef (per your example) in search.

faithrainbow1

Thanks!

jemhh

maxit wrote: »

USDA values include cooked meat - use usda cooked beef (per your example) in search.

This is what I do.