Weighing Meat

justinlrhodes989

Hi, little confused. Do you or are you supposed to weigh your meat before or after you cook it? I know some fat will cook its way out of meat depending on how you cook it. Thanks in advance for your help!

arditarose

Before. If for some reason you are in a situation where the meat is already cooked, you can weigh it cooked but pick the correct entry from the database for cooked meat.

sheermomentum

There are entries for cooked and raw, for each kind of meat. If you can weigh it raw its a little more accurate because the amount of water/moisture in it can vary after its cooked. But often its not convenient to weigh one portion raw if you're making a dish or if the meat has bones in it. As long as you choose the entry that matches what you are weighing, it will be ok. Look for entries that actually specify "raw" or "braised" or "broiled" or at least "cooked."

NealNH

You can do either if you have accurate information on the calories per unit weight in the cooked or uncooked state.
I go to the USDA nutrient database http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ and search there. Any kind of meat I have searched for usually has the information in raw or cooked. I frequently use this database to check and see if what was entered into the MFP database is accurate.

callsitlikeiseeit

raw

justinlrhodes989

Thank ya'll for the help! I'll stick to weighing raw when I can.

gothchiq

I eat it cooked, so I weigh it cooked.

codsterlaing95

Before

jeepinshawn

I always use the raw weight.