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Shelbelle333
Shelbelle333 Posts: 8 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I recently bought a food scale to more accurately track the amount of meat. etc. I am eating. Just out of curiosity I weighed the salmon I was making for dinner before it was cooked and again after it was cooked. The food scale came out with two different weights. The salmon weighed less after it was cooked.

So my question.....do you log the amount of salmon (for example) before or after its cooked?

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  • ChangingAmanda
    ChangingAmanda Posts: 486 Member
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    Most all foods weight less after cooking as the food loses fat, water, moisture as it cooks. As for which weight to use, it depends on the entry you select for your diary as some are based on precooked/raw weight and some are based on cooked weight.
  • SirBonerFart
    SirBonerFart Posts: 1,185 Member
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    I always weigh my meat
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
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    I always heard that you should enter the uncooked weight, but I usually enter the cooked weight.
  • tquill
    tquill Posts: 300 Member
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    NINJA EDIT

    I usually measure cooked meat.

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