How do I measure out my homemade chili by weight and not serving size?

Queenmunchy

sarahstarr0416 wrote: »

So let me get this straight, because I think I've been doing this wrong the whole time. I weigh the bowl first that I'm cooking it in so I can subtract that out. Then after I put all of my ingredients, I take the total weight and make that the serving size? Then what am I measuring in my individual bowl when I'm ready to eat an actual serving. How do I then break that down? Sorry, I'm completely confused right now.

Weigh and enter your raw ingredients in the recipe builder. Cook and weigh the total weight of your cooked dish, subtracting the weight of the pan.
Set your servings as the gram weight of the cooked food minus the pan.
When you plate yours, weigh that amount and log that number of 1g servings.

MelodyandBarbells

sarahstarr0416 wrote: »

So let me get this straight, because I think I've been doing this wrong the whole time. I weigh the bowl first that I'm cooking it in so I can subtract that out. Then after I put all of my ingredients, I take the total weight and make that the serving size? Then what am I measuring in my individual bowl when I'm ready to eat an actual serving. How do I then break that down? Sorry, I'm completely confused right now.

What @Queenmunchy said.

Example: You're done cooking. Total weight of the entire batch is 2539g. You record that as the number of servings in your recipe

It's time for dinner. You serve yourself 423g. Log 423 servings of your recipe. Tada! MFP does all the math for you in calculating calories and nutrients.

PAV8888

JaneiR36 wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

JaneiR36 wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

JaneiR36 wrote: »

Sounds like some of you will be in the market for a higher capacity scale :bigsmile:

Here's the issue: MOST (affordable) 0.5g sensitive scales TOP at 1kg; MOST (affordable) 1g sensitive scales TOP at 2-4kg. To go above 4kg, most of the (affordable) scales I've seen become 5g sensitive.

When I cook a big pot it is often more than 4kg. When I add cinnamon to my yogurt it is usually less than 1g

I want an affordable 0.5g sensitive 5kg (or even 10kg, why not) scale.... can you find me one ;-) ????

Well that's easy - you're not gonna throw out your more sensitive scale just because you got a 10kg capacity one. And if you're really weighing a 9kg batch of food, I'd hope 5g of error for the total weight would be acceptable! Finally, if you drop the requirement to 1g sensitivity rather than 0.5g, there might be more cost effective options on the market.

PS: you weigh your cinnamon?

Edit: aw man they got scales looking like iPads. I shouldn't have done this search - for less than $10, a really sleek looking 5kg scale can be had. Not that I need another one. The 5kg range is where the most options are at. These are the only two I found at 10kg so far. I may not have clicked on some >$30 ones to see what their range was... These two are at 1g sensitivity like all my other food scales.

Inspiring research. Of course in Canada not the same options
Mind you, I ran into an interesting one: https://www.amazon.ca/Smart-Weigh-Culinary-Platforms-Ingredients/dp/B01LXXBQWD/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1485773795&sr=8-2&keywords=scale+10kg

Having said that, it fails because I would prefer a more off-set or detachable screen so you can read it when a big plate is on there!

They covered some options for this on one topic. I believe one of the coolest ones was a poster that said she tares a little bowl and sets her plate of food on top of it! I always just nudged the plate to one side. Long as the plate doesn't fall off, I get a good weight and can view the #'s. But if you're gonna get yet another scale it needs to solve all scale related problems, amirite???

U'z right. Else gimpy current scale workz gutnuff

I use my fry's cocoa "tube" as my tall stand as it is sitting on my counter together with cinnamon to be sprinkled on **kitten** as the mood strikes ;-)

SarahStarr86

JaneiR36 wrote: »

sarahstarr0416 wrote: »

So let me get this straight, because I think I've been doing this wrong the whole time. I weigh the bowl first that I'm cooking it in so I can subtract that out. Then after I put all of my ingredients, I take the total weight and make that the serving size? Then what am I measuring in my individual bowl when I'm ready to eat an actual serving. How do I then break that down? Sorry, I'm completely confused right now.

What @Queenmunchy said.

Example: You're done cooking. Total weight of the entire batch is 2539g. You record that as the number of servings in your recipe

It's time for dinner. You serve yourself 423g. Log 423 servings of your recipe. Tada! MFP does all the math for you in calculating calories and nutrients.

Ooohhhh! I am so doing this from now on. I always estimated how many servings and hoped I did it right, yikes! Now I can be legit on my recipes, yay! Thanks!

SarahStarr86

Edited to delete my last question. Figured it out! Thanks!

Theo166

daves05 wrote: »

So I made some homemade chili I entered all the ingredients in the recipe section but I don't know how many servings is actually in there how can I figured this out by weight and not serving size?

When I've done a big pot recipe I entered all the ingredients in the recipe tool and when done cooking, I transferred it to another pot (or storage containers) using a large multi cup measurer. You can quickly transfer the whole thing and then know it's volume. I ended up with like 12 cups, which was then the number of servings entered in the MFP recipe, easy for me to track as I ate it over the week.

mary55

Why can't MFP give the serving amount in oz's too instead of one serving? I might eat less than a serving, it might be a quarter, or half. It just doesn't help me to measure the amount of food that I eat when it says 1 serving.

deannalfisher

because that is how the person who inputed the record made it...which is why we are recommending building a recipe and putting the number of servings to correlate to the weight in g's

cross2bear

If you dont eat a full serving, then you can change the serving size to .5, .25 or any fraction of the serving.