weighing steak before or after cooking??

coffeebeachwalks

When I go to log steak in ounces (or chicken) is that ounces meant to be raw or cooked? My steak said it was 10 oz and it cooked down to about 6 oz

spiriteagle99

There are different entries for raw and cooked meat. It depends on how you look up the food in the data base.

tomcustombuilder

weigh everything before. There's too much variation after cooking with water loss. For instance, if you cook a steak rare a good amount of the water stays in it and if you cook a steak well done it dries out a lot so it's gonna show a lot less which will end up showing a lot less calories.

Hungry_catapillar25

I always weigh before then I know I’m under no mater what the outcome after 🤷🏻‍♀️

ROWER_32

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48857760#Comment_48857760

Same and leave it to rest 😋

Hungry_catapillar25

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48857763#Comment_48857763

rest is over rated it just goes too hard to eat then as far as I’m concerned 🤷🏻‍♀️