Recipe Builder and rice

Leanqueen01

Im really confused on using the recipe builder for rice!! I want to make brown vegetable rice. Everyone says to enter the weight/calories of the rice when raw into the recipe builder. But won't that make the calories generated by the builder for the end product (per bowl/grams) inaccurate?

Because raw calories is approx 119 per 100 rice but per 75 grams cooked its approx 227 (according to the rice packaging) HELP!

janejellyroll

It's the same rice all the way through. But since you're adding it raw, you want to weight it raw. If you enter the calories for cooked rice and then add raw rice, you will be under-counting the calories in the recipe.

veggiecanner

wonder if the extra calories are from margarine add during cooking.

jemhh

I am confused by your confusion

Weigh your empty cooking vessel.
Add the weight of your rice to the recipe builder
Add your water to the dish.
Add any other ingredients, weighing them along the way and adding them to the recipe builder.
Cook your rice.
Weigh the finished product, in the cooking vessel.
Subtract the weight of the empty cooking vessel from the finished product.
You now should have a weight, in grams, of the finished product.
Go back and edit the number of servings to the number of grams the finished product weighs.
Log your rice as 1 serving per gram. If you measure out 100 grams, enter 100 servings.

Leanqueen01

jemhh wrote: »

I am confused by your confusion

Weigh your empty cooking vessel.
Add the weight of your rice to the recipe builder
Add your water to the dish.
Add any other ingredients, weighing them along the way and adding them to the recipe builder.
Cook your rice.
Weigh the finished product, in the cooking vessel.
Subtract the weight of the empty cooking vessel from the finished product.
You now should have a weight, in grams, of the finished product.
Go back and edit the number of servings to the number of grams the finished product weighs.
Log your rice as 1 serving per gram. If you measure out 100 grams, enter 100 servings.

Thats exactly what im planning on doing, but im confused wont the rice calories have increased during cooking or will this all be taken into account as i have weighed every ingredient?

jemhh

mazjubean wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

I am confused by your confusion

Weigh your empty cooking vessel.
Add the weight of your rice to the recipe builder
Add your water to the dish.
Add any other ingredients, weighing them along the way and adding them to the recipe builder.
Cook your rice.
Weigh the finished product, in the cooking vessel.
Subtract the weight of the empty cooking vessel from the finished product.
You now should have a weight, in grams, of the finished product.
Go back and edit the number of servings to the number of grams the finished product weighs.
Log your rice as 1 serving per gram. If you measure out 100 grams, enter 100 servings.

Thats exactly what im planning on doing, but im confused wont the rice calories have increased during cooking or will this all be taken into account as i have weighed every ingredient?

You are not going to use the "cooked" nutrition info from the packaging at all. Just ignore it. The point of the recipe builder is that you are entering all ingredients and taking them into account to determine the cooked nutrition info.

ForeverSunshine09

It is all taken into account when you use the recipe builder.

Leanqueen01

jemhh wrote: »

mazjubean wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

I am confused by your confusion

Weigh your empty cooking vessel.
Add the weight of your rice to the recipe builder
Add your water to the dish.
Add any other ingredients, weighing them along the way and adding them to the recipe builder.
Cook your rice.
Weigh the finished product, in the cooking vessel.
Subtract the weight of the empty cooking vessel from the finished product.
You now should have a weight, in grams, of the finished product.
Go back and edit the number of servings to the number of grams the finished product weighs.
Log your rice as 1 serving per gram. If you measure out 100 grams, enter 100 servings.

Thats exactly what im planning on doing, but im confused wont the rice calories have increased during cooking or will this all be taken into account as i have weighed every ingredient?

You are not going to use the "cooked" nutrition info from the packaging at all. Just ignore it. The point of the recipe builder is that you are entering all ingredients and taking them into account to determine the cooked nutrition info.

Oh okay lol! That makes much more sense thank you