How to weigh frozen chips - confused!
smotheredincheese
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I've got a bag of frozen oven chips and I can't figure out if the nutritional information is for them at their frozen weight, or cooked.
It says:
Nutrition - when oven baked according to instructions
100g contains 240kcal.
125g oven baked contains 300kcal
The bit in bold suggests that you're supposed to weigh them cooked - but most things are weighed from frozen so I don't know why this bag of chips would be different (or does it mean, 125g weighed from frozen will contain 300kcal after cooking?)
Maybe it's badly worded or I might just be being dumb but I can't work it out.
It says:
Nutrition - when oven baked according to instructions
100g contains 240kcal.
125g oven baked contains 300kcal
The bit in bold suggests that you're supposed to weigh them cooked - but most things are weighed from frozen so I don't know why this bag of chips would be different (or does it mean, 125g weighed from frozen will contain 300kcal after cooking?)
Maybe it's badly worded or I might just be being dumb but I can't work it out.
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I read it as: 100 grams of frozen product is 240 calories. If you oven bake them then 125 grams of the cooked product is 300 calories
But the bold part is confusing - so maybe BOTH are for the cooked product?? Weird.0 -
I weigh oven chips baked0
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I cook for more than just myself, so weigh them onto my plate cooked - the Albert Bartlett and M&S ones are pretty clear about giving those values, anyhow.
Reality is, I weigh occasionally and eyeball mostly - the weighing is just to make sure that my perception of a normal portion for me hasn't drifted.0
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