Figuring out calorie count in instant pot ribs

WarmDontBurn

Loving my instant pot but haven't been counting calories much lately (and it shows) so I want to take steps into being more conscience.

I am following this recipe:
http://pressureluckcooking.com/recipe/instant-pot-baby-back-ribs/

I have NO idea how to figure out the calorie count.
I am thinking the best way is to measure the ribs before and after then keep mine separate when adding the BBQ sauce.
There isn't many calories in the juice, vinegar and smoke and are only there for flavouring anyway (I don't plan to drink it!)
It still won't be accurate as the bones/meat will still be a lot different from beginning to end.


What is the best way to get the closest count?

DX2JX2

Just use the USDA estimate for raw pork ribs. A quick google says that 100 grams (3.5 oz) of raw bone-in ribs has about 275 calories (lean and fat eaten). If you get a 2 pound rack from the store, that's about 2500 calories.

The braising liquid contains a negligible amount of calories (vinegar and liquid smoke) and will not be consumed anyway.

Sauce is about 35 calories per tablespoon. Assuming you use a cup to glaze the ribs, you've added about 600 calories to the dish.

Based on the above, the entire cooked rack will contain about 3100 calories (round up to 3200 to make things easy). 1 quarter of the finished rack will have about 800 calories. If you don't put the sauce on your quarter-rack portion, you'll have about 600 calories for the meat, plus whatever sauce you put on while you eat.

You could also do the calculations on the cooked meat using the appropriate entry in the USDA database, but then you'd have to weigh everything after cooking which can be a bit of a pain for braised meats.

WarmDontBurn

Thank you so much!! Now that is factored with bone in so would you weigh the bone after (since I don't plan to eat those either) to get a more accurate of the meat I am actually eating?

I have just 1975 grams of ribs so say 5500 calories for both racks -- I can weigh when done too just to be sure and only add BBQ sauce after anyway.
So xxxxx cooked grams = 5500 calories
then portion mine out from there. Just wondering about the bones.

Would love to use the recipe feature on here but it add an extra 880 for the apple juice and I can never figure out proper servings so I like to take the long way around and work on each gram per calorie.