how do u weigh your meat?

veliia

I bought ground turkey. The pack says its 1lb (16oz) serving size is 4oz so I asumed 1/4 of package weighs 4 oz but no. When i weigh it raw it is way less than one forth of package. Am i supposed to b weighing it raw or cooked??

cwolfman13

veliia wrote: »

I bought ground turkey. The pack says its 1lb (16oz) serving size is 4oz so I asumed 1/4 of package weighs 4 oz but no. When i weigh it raw it is way less than one forth of package. Am i supposed to b weighing it raw or cooked??

Generally, it's raw...when I buy a package of ground beef or whatever and it says it weighs 1 lb, it's always weighed about 1 Lb raw for the whole package.

What's more important however is that you are logging it the way you are weighing it. For the most part, I weigh my meats cooked and if I was going to enter that I would look for a "cooked" option in the database rather than raw.

rawley69

meat is always weighed raw. (unless you've bought a precooked meat product, then the weights are for it as received--like a can of tuna)
It's always hard to estimate volume well. weight is the number you want to believe.

Alluminati

I weigh it raw because it's not going to be cooked the same way every time. It just seems easier to me.

ASKyle

Raw.

LushFix

I always weigh raw. I find it to be more accurate because how much moisture is lost will depend on how you cooked it. Also because I usually add something to it which will also need to be weighed separately.

pmendes3

Weighing raw is the only way to do it for accuracy. Is it possible the package didn't weigh 1lb?

LushFix

Yes. It's possible. You won't know until you weigh it

Shells918

Im different. I weigh my meat cooked and use cooked meat entries. I add in any marinade or sauce separately. I'm not eating it raw and the weight changes with cooking.

fishshark

as everyone said always raw

emmaprocopiou

Food packaging always tends to be off.
I weigh all my packaged meat before cooking as it rarely weighs what the packet says and for calorie dense foods like meat especially important.

cityruss

Either. There's no right or wrong way.

Just pick the correct database entry and account for oils etc.

Although raw is more accurate, there's not enough in it to make any difference in long term goals.

Also, don't look at package weights and serving sizes, weigh everything yourself.

eeejer

so basically you got ripped off?

T1DCarnivoreRunner

Raw, unless it specified as cooked.

For example of something specified as cooked, there is bacon I eat that has nutrition facts on the package with a serving of 1 "pan fried slice" and the number of grams. I weigh it after frying and divide the total grams by the labeled grams for 1 slice. I log that number of slices (which might be 1.04 or it might be 0.96 slices, depending on weight).

WholeFoods4Lyfe

I always weigh it raw.

A perfect example. I like my steak rare, my husband likes his medium well. If I put both of our steaks on the grill and the starting weight is 8oz per steak, mine will likely weigh between 7-7.5oz while my husbands will weigh between 6.5-7oz when done cooking due to the different amount of water loss. The calorie count for cooked meat could be off by as much as 50 calories due to how you cook it.

perkymommy

veliia wrote: »

I bought ground turkey. The pack says its 1lb (16oz) serving size is 4oz so I asumed 1/4 of package weighs 4 oz but no. When i weigh it raw it is way less than one forth of package. Am i supposed to b weighing it raw or cooked??

I'm different than most people on this. I weigh my meats (or any food I eat) once it is cooked. If I'm not eating it raw then I'm not weighing it raw. Chances are it has been sauteed in something or has been cooked with an oil or something so that is also included in the tracking. I'd rather show an overage of calories consumed than not enough.

perkymommy

darlswife wrote: »

Im different. I weigh my meat cooked and use cooked meat entries. I add in any marinade or sauce separately. I'm not eating it raw and the weight changes with cooking.

Thought I was the only one who did this.

I realize there are options for both raw and cooked so I guess you can do either. But the one and only time I will use raw for veggies or meats is if I'm making a soup or stew and I'm using raw of each of them. I can't weigh it after it's cooked so I weigh them raw. That's the one and only time I do it though. When popping a serving of steak, burger or chicken breast on the grill or in the oven then it gets weighed once cooked.

eeejer

if I use a raw entry I weigh it raw, if it is cooked I look for a cooked entry. Both are fine, you just have to pick the right entry.

brb_2013

darlswife wrote: »

Im different. I weigh my meat cooked and use cooked meat entries. I add in any marinade or sauce separately. I'm not eating it raw and the weight changes with cooking.

I'm the same. I know it's technically more accurate to weigh raw, maybe I will have to someday (if my weight stalls and I need more accuracy). But for now I find it easier to find the cooked usda information and then a matching entry in the database.

LazSommer

I heft it.

Shawshankcan

Buy a scale. You can get really cheap ones. And some foods you may be surprised on how dense they are - pasta for example.