What's the deal with pasta

sweetpea813

Do you weigh it, then cook it? Or cook it, then weigh it?

diannethegeek

I weigh it dry. The nutrition label should give the information based on the dry weight unless it specifies otherwise, but if you need/want to weigh it after cooking then you can find fairly accurate entries in the database to use.

ogtmama

My guess would be dry because otherwise you'd be weighing the water it absorbs

maxit

When I cook pasta, I weigh 3 servings dry (6 oz). Then I weigh the drained pasta and serve myself 1/3 of it - (partner eats the rest).

pebble4321

Look for an entry in the database for "pasta, cooked" or "pasta, raw" and use the appropriate one.
You can use either, just make sure you pick the right one because the calories are going to be significantly different.

Annr

I weight it dry using the Grams option on my scale. Then I look it up dry and in grams. Easy Peasy. :-)

megomerrett

I weigh dry because it's less messy!

sweetpea813

Thanks everyone!

85Cardinals

megomerrett wrote: »

I weigh dry because it's less messy!

exactly, the spaghetti sauce keeps gunking up my scale.