Pasta Question?

taracopley_

If the serving size of spaghetti is 2 oz uncooked, how many oz and/or cups is that when cooked? Thank you!

elphie754

It depends on the type of pasta, how it's cooked, etc.

That is why you should weigh it before you cook.

fishshark

if you are weighing it dry it doesnt really matter... buuuuut like said above it changes depending on shape.

Sara1791

If you're making a pound of pasta because you're cooking for a family, that's 8 servings. So, you cook it all up and then you scoop it out onto your scale, weigh it, divide by 8, and then you know how much you're allowed to eat. J/K I don't do that.

melissa6771

As a general rule, pasta doubles when cooked. its not exact as different shapes hold different amounts of water but I find it mostly true.

Out of curiosity, If you're weighing it dry you'll know how much you're eating, Why do you need to know how much it is when cooked?.

Sara1791

melissa6771 wrote: »

As a general rule, pasta doubles when cooked. its not exact as different shapes hold different amounts of water but I find it mostly true.

Out of curiosity, If you're weighing it dry you'll know how much you're eating, Why do you need to know how much it is when cooked?.

I'm not OP, but I'm going to guess that it's because a person doesn't usually cook one serving at a time.

BeYouTiful94

Are you cooking the whole box and want to know how much you're eating in one serving? Here's an example:

Serving size = 56g
Whole box (dry) = 150g
Whole box (cooked) = 314g

314/150= 2.093

That means the cooked pasta weighs 2.093 as much as your dry pasta.

56g (roughly 2 oz) x 2.093 = 117.208g.

That means, for this fictitious pasta I've made here, I could eat 117g of it cooked, and that would be the same as the 56g serving size dry.

In other words, since you may not want exactly 117g of pasta, you'd just take your pasta weight and divide by your factor, the 2.093 in this case

Wynterbourne

BeYouTiful94 wrote: »

Are you cooking the whole box and want to know how much you're eating in one serving? Here's an example:

Serving size = 56g
Whole box (dry) = 150g
Whole box (cooked) = 314g

314/150= 2.093

That means the cooked pasta weighs 2.093 as much as your dry pasta.

56g (roughly 2 oz) x 2.093 = 117.208g.

That means, for this fictitious pasta I've made here, I could eat 117g of it cooked, and that would be the same as the 56g serving size dry.

In other words, since you may not want exactly 117g of pasta, you'd just take your pasta weight and divide by your factor, the 2.093 in this case

Except that the same weight of dry pasta will very rarely weigh the exact same amount after each time it's cooked. The longer you cook it the more water will be absorbed and the more it will weigh. I could cook the same 2oz dry serving a dozen times and unless I'm standing right next to the stove and stop the cooking and drain it to the exact same second every time, it won't have absorbed the same amount of water. The only way to be sure is to weigh it dry. If it's an issue regarding pulling out a serving when multiple servings are cooked together, you weigh the entire cooked batch and divide by the number of servings you cooked to get the weight of one serving for that particular instance.

BeYouTiful94

Lol. Except that you essentially do the same thing in a different way.

For one, I said to weigh the pasta dry and then cooked. Thats why there are two separate lines, one that says pasta dry and pasta cooked. And then went on to say that "for this fictitious pasta" that I just made up, the factor would be 2.093. Indicating that, of course, this box and any other box will not be the same. To begin with, obviously, another box of pasta will not weigh 150 grams dry. It might weigh, oh I don't know 175 grams dry. And when you cook it, it might weigh, mmm, 450 grams cooked. That fictitious pasta would have a different calculation, would it not? That's why I said "here is an example".

For two. Here is an example (and please see that I used example, meaning it's not an always).

Your way. You would weigh the pasta dry and come up with maybe 168 grams for the whole box. Which is 3 servings, if the serving size is 56 grams. You would cook the pasta and it would come up to ... whatever number, roughly 370 grams for instance. You would divide by 3 servings and get that 1 serving is 123.3 grams.

My way. You would weigh the pasta dry and get 168 grams. You'd cook it and get 370 grams. 370 divided by 168 is 2.202. The 56 grams serving multiplied by 2.202 is ... wait for it ... 123.3.

Tomato, tomato. There's more than one way to do things.

Wynterbourne

BeYouTiful94 wrote: »

Lol. Except that you essentially do the same thing in a different way.

For one, I said to weigh the pasta dry and then cooked. Thats why there are two separate lines, one that says pasta dry and pasta cooked. And then went on to say that "for this fictitious pasta" that I just made up, the factor would be 2.093. Indicating that, of course, this box and any other box will not be the same. To begin with, obviously, another box of pasta will not weigh 150 grams dry. It might weigh, oh I don't know 175 grams dry. And when you cook it, it might weigh, mmm, 450 grams cooked. That fictitious pasta would have a different calculation, would it not? That's why I said "here is an example".

For two. Here is an example (and please see that I used example, meaning it's not an always).

Your way. You would weigh the pasta dry and come up with maybe 168 grams for the whole box. Which is 3 servings, if the serving size is 56 grams. You would cook the pasta and it would come up to ... whatever number, roughly 370 grams for instance. You would divide by 3 servings and get that 1 serving is 123.3 grams.

My way. You would weigh the pasta dry and get 168 grams. You'd cook it and get 370 grams. 370 divided by 168 is 2.202. The 56 grams serving multiplied by 2.202 is ... wait for it ... 123.3.

Tomato, tomato. There's more than one way to do things.

Sorry. You're right. LOL. I was reading one last thread way passed my bedtime. I misread what you posted. There have been people in the past that would quote cooked pasta as weighing some arbitrary set amount and my brain flashed back to that as it apparently skimmed your post. D'oh!

Francl27

BeYouTiful94 wrote: »

Are you cooking the whole box and want to know how much you're eating in one serving? Here's an example:

Serving size = 56g
Whole box (dry) = 150g
Whole box (cooked) = 314g

314/150= 2.093

That means the cooked pasta weighs 2.093 as much as your dry pasta.

56g (roughly 2 oz) x 2.093 = 117.208g.

That means, for this fictitious pasta I've made here, I could eat 117g of it cooked, and that would be the same as the 56g serving size dry.

In other words, since you may not want exactly 117g of pasta, you'd just take your pasta weight and divide by your factor, the 2.093 in this case

That's assuming that the weight on the box is accurate, which is very rarely the case.

The pasta I use (ronzoni whole wheat) pretty much always ends up being 127-130g a serving cooked (there are 3 different times on the box, I always use the middle one). I still weigh it dry though (then cooked if I make more than one serving).

ouryve

I tend so serve myself about 50g raw weight and cook 200g for 3 of us (me, husband, almost teen boy). So, I eyeball 1/4 of the cooked pasta. It's never going to be completely accurate, as I mix the pasta and sauce before serving, serve up everyone's pasta, then divvy up the leftover sauce on top. I only eat pasta once a fortnight but figure any discrepancies probably average out.