Weighing Scrambled eggs before or after cooking?
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ElMilagro1
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Hello from Paris France,
I am curious as I use a balance to weigh the food I eat. I noticed weighing them before cooking or after makes a great difference.
Scrambled eggs loose about ten grams. I pour a little water in so which ten grams did I loose?
Because even when I make scrambled eggs without water it still looses about ten grams.
I'd like to make a correct entry, this feels like I'd need to know molecules... lol deep nutrition.
Thanks for the help 😘
I am curious as I use a balance to weigh the food I eat. I noticed weighing them before cooking or after makes a great difference.
Scrambled eggs loose about ten grams. I pour a little water in so which ten grams did I loose?
Because even when I make scrambled eggs without water it still looses about ten grams.
I'd like to make a correct entry, this feels like I'd need to know molecules... lol deep nutrition.
Thanks for the help 😘
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Neither one. USDA lookup has the calories for eggs and their cooking methods based on size. The size of an egg is a defined quantity.2
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Don’t use a database entry for “scrambled eggs.” Enter the separate raw ingredient weights. Eggs themselves are pretty standard—enter the size of the egg printed on the carton. Butter, for example, should be weighed.5
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I eat eggs every day. I just add the egg itself in my diary, according to size, as the above poster suggested.1
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I would weight them uncooked but peeled. Then weight the oil for cooking and everything else you add to them raw/cold.0
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If being really nitpicky I break them in a bowl on the scale to get the weight (use the USDA entry for raw eggs).
I can eyeball what an egg will be very well, however, so now am as likely to go with that. I use eggs from local farms that sell at my farmer's market, and they vary in size quite a bit. For sized eggs the USDA entries by size are good enough, but they likely would not be the same in France.
Obviously also log any butter used for cooking and anything added to the eggs if you do that.0 -
It actually doesn't matter whether you weight them before or after. What really matters is you pick one and then do that consistently.4
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I don't weigh eggs. I just enter the size, usually large, and continue with my happy life. if I am I using them for a recipe, then I weigh and log the other ingredients as well.3
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I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.7
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Ok, put bowl/pan on scale, tare scale, crack open egg, log weight.3
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Oh, well you made me think of how you peel a hard boiled egg. Thought I was missing out on something. ☺2
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I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.
😂 You must be really judgmental.
I'm doing my best, thank you all for your answers. I need to do some searching!
So a fried egg doesn't need to be weighed before cooking. It is just a matter of size...
I'll see if we have similarities in sizes.3 -
On eggs, I just go with the standard nutritional info on the carton. I do weigh my butter or oil though. 1 large egg is typically around 70 calories1
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ElMilagro1 wrote: »I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.
😂 You must be really judgmental.
I'm doing my best, thank you all for your answers. I need to do some searching!
So a fried egg doesn't need to be weighed before cooking. It is just a matter of size...
I'll see if we have similarities in sizes.
Some people can be a little "snarky" at times on this forum.3 -
ElMilagro1 wrote: »I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.
😂 You must be really judgmental.
I'm doing my best, thank you all for your answers. I need to do some searching!
So a fried egg doesn't need to be weighed before cooking. It is just a matter of size...
I'll see if we have similarities in sizes.
You could also weigh them for a couple of weeks and then average the highest 5 or so weights and use that until you felt the need to check it again (change brands, etc)
I don't weigh eggs. I buy the extra large and log the jumbo which I think covers me. The other reason is I don't know if the calories per gram is evenly scalable. If the difference between the entry and my egg is mostly egg white it wouldn't add any significant calories. If I get a 2 yolk egg I log it as 2 smaller eggs.1 -
I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.
I got into the habit of weighing eggs when I was buying them at farm stands and the sizes were obviously different.
Then I started weighing supermarket eggs and learned there can be a lot of variety within a package of those as well.3 -
If I get a double yolker, I do a happy dance! 😎1
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so since water is a zero calorie addition - the calories between a raw egg and a cooked egg don't differ - i would weigh raw and just use that for consistency - but if you are say eating eggs in a restaurant, give it your best guess1
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You are only eating what's cooked, so weigh the cooked egg. I log them by size because it's close enough for me.2
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