Measuring pasta/Rice Ect.

sachasalviax

How does everyone mesure pasta and rice and things I'm so confused on how to do it!?

kommodevaran

Electronic food scale. Dry.

crzycatlady1

kommodevaran wrote: »

Electronic food scale. Dry.

This.

kimny72

sachasalviax wrote: »

How does everyone mesure pasta and rice and things I'm so confused on how to do it!?

Weigh them raw, on a digital food scale to figure out how much to cook.
Then if you are cooking multiple servings, weigh the whole thing after it's cooked, divide by number of servings to determine the weight of a cooked serving, and measure out your portion to eat.

It sounds complicated at first, but once you've done it a few times it's second nature, easy peasy.

TeaBea

Weigh it dry.

Firm pasta vs. mushy pasta is about water content. Because water has no calories 1 cup of firm pasta is higher calorie than 1 cup of mushy pasta. Rice - same thing.

jemhh

Pasta: I once measured out 2 ounces of dry spaghetti, boiled it, and then put it in a measuring cup to see what it looked like. It was a generous (slightly heaping) 1 cup of pasta. Now when I make pasta, I might weigh it out in ounces when figuring out how much to make for my family but when I serve it I just use a measuring cup.

Rice: When you are cooking it, weigh your cooking vessel/dish. Then weigh the rice out dry and add that to the recipe builder. Then add in other ingredients, adding them to the recipe builder. Cook it all. Weigh the entire dish and subtract off the weight of the dish so that you have the weight, in grams, of the food. Enter that number as the number of servings that the recipe makes. Then weigh the amount you are going to eat, in grams, and enter that number as the number of servings you are eating.

Francl27

I weigh it dry too. Then I weigh the cooked weight to see how many grams there is in a cooked serving and just use that number to figure out my serving.

So let's say I make 4 servings of pasta... and it weighs 520g cooked. I'll know that a serving is 520/56=130g (which is what the pasta I use typically is - rice seems to vary a lot though).

jkwolly

Pasta always dry weigh.

Rice I weigh cooked, on my scale. But I created my own entry for cooked basmati rice vs. raw.

dragon_girl26

Weigh it twice. First, weigh it raw according to the serving size on the package. Then when it's finished cooking, weigh it cooked and divide that number by the number of servings you prepared.

WatchJoshLift

Dry.

WayTooHonest

Dry.

But somehow 2 servings of pasta boils up into 97 servings. I'm never quite sure how that happens.

JeromeBarry1

The mfp food database has both "dry" and "cooked" listings for those foods, but even when "cooked" the food can have widely varying water content, leading to substantial uncertainty in your diary.