Cooked pasta vs. uncooked, by the ounce

adiostrasero

So I made the mistake of not weighing how much pasta I would eat for lunch *before* I cooked it. It is 2.3 ounces cooked, but I cannot figure out anywhere (MFP or anywhere else) how many calories pasta has per ounce AFTER it is cooked. Help, please! It's regular ol' fettucine.

AEMW8

Try googling for a food calculator. I've had to do that from time to time.

CookNLift

try taking a snap shot of the upc code with your phone app and measure according to serving size....it'll give portion measurements or how many noodles per serving, it will vary because all pasta has different weights and calories

athenasurrenders

I think you might just have to make a best guess this time round. The reason it's hard to find calories in cooked pasta is that it absorbs different amounts of water depending on how long you cook it - so you and I could both start with the same quantity of dry pasta and I could end up with something much heavier and bulkier than you because of extra water, but the same amount of calories.

2.3 ounces cooked sounds like a pretty small serving so even if your guess is way out it shouldn't do you to much damage. I'd say log it as 1.5 uncooked and call it good.

athenasurrenders

I had to look up an old post - I experimented with this once and found that 100g of dry pasta typically gave me 200-220g cooked; so just over doubled in weight. So you could log about half the weight as dry pasta.

Not a reliable method of course, but will work for today.

erickirb

Tough one, as it will be different depending on type (thickness of pasta) wholewheat vs. white (may absorb different amount of water), how much it is cooked (El dante vs. soggy) the difference would be water, but do you know how much of the box you made. You can try weighing the remaining contents and take the total on the box - what is left and that is how much you made, assuming you opened a new box

Commander_Keen

Well I know that 2oz uncooked pasta = 5oz cooked.

erickirb

Well I know that 2oz uncooked pasta = 5oz cooked.

The way you cooked it maybe, but see my response above as the possible errors in using that as a generalization

adiostrasero

I had totally not considered the whole water affecting the weight thing. Thanks for this info ... I knew I'd have to guesstimate but just didn't want to be waaaay off.

I had to look up an old post - I experimented with this once and found that 100g of dry pasta typically gave me 200-220g cooked; so just over doubled in weight. So you could log about half the weight as dry pasta.

Not a reliable method of course, but will work for today.

Mslmesq

I believe 2oz (one portion) is about one cup cooked.

corgicake

I believe 2oz (one portion) is about one cup cooked.

Yup, one cup for cooked lengthy noodles. Goodies such as rotini come in at 3/4 cup UNcooked so those might be different.

inspirem

I say take 1 portion (2 oz) of your favorite dry pasta, then cook it , drain it and weigh it! Then you'll know that so many oz of dry pasta equals so many oz of cooked pasta...then log calories according to calories per so many oz of dry pasta!