Weighing chicken breast fillets?

dave_in_ni

I buy cheap frozen fillets, when frozen a fillet might weigh 300 grams, when thawed however it's down to 270 grams, which do I use? And well cooked that 300 gram fillet could be less than 200 it has so much water pumped into it.

cordney

I weigh it cooked and use this to track it:
Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted

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CafeRacer808

You're right that things lose weight when they're cooked (mostly water and fat, depending on what you're cooking). Cooking time also has an impact on how much water or fat is lost. Given that, it's best to weigh it thawed and raw. There are both raw and cooked database entries, so if you must weigh after you've cooked your chicken, be sure to choose the appropriate entry from the database.

callsitlikeiseeit

CafeRacer808 wrote: »

You're right that things lose weight when they're cooked (mostly water and fat, depending on what you're cooking). Cooking time also has an impact on how much water or fat is lost. Given that, it's best to weigh it thawed and raw. There are both raw and cooked database entries, so if you must weigh after you've cooked your chicken, be sure to choose the appropriate entry from the database.

everything he said