A question about weighing food

Whereismycoffee

I am still fairly new here, and I am trying to figure out how to enter a recipe. It contains meat in it. Do I weigh the meat before or after cooking? I want to do this as accurately as possible. Any opinions?

diannethegeek

I weigh all of my meat raw.

VegasFit

I always did raw but I say it's up to you but if you weigh raw or cooked just always stick with that method.

chezjuan

It doesn't matter how you weigh it if you select an entry that matches the food's state. So if you weight the meat raw, use the "<type of meat> XXXX raw" entry, and if you weigh it cooked, use the "<type of meat><style of cooking>" entry. For example, there are entries for both "Chicken Breast, Boneless, Skinless raw" and "Chicken Breast, Boneless, Skinless, Roasted."

When I use meats and veggies in recipes, I generally use the raw entries.

Edited to add the example.

bizco

chezjuan has a great answer.

I always weigh my meat after cooking, because depending on the type of meat, it can shrink A LOT. Then I find an entry (or create one myself) that includes "cooked, baked, broiled, etc." in the description.

Whereismycoffee

Thank you everyone that answered and so quickly!! WOW!!!


I didn't think about looking them up as raw or cooked, and good idea about after cooking for lose of fluids and such. This is the first time in my life I have ever used a scale for food. I have used them to weigh 18 wheelers...lol, but that is a whole different thing. :bigsmile:


I am off to make chili! It's so cold out I want something really nice for dinner.

Edit: They need to add like buttons to these.

VegasFit

Thank you everyone that answered and so quickly!! WOW!!!


I didn't think about looking them up as raw or cooked. This is the first time in my life I have ever used a scale for food. I have used them to weigh 18 wheelers...lol, but that is a whole different thing. :bigsmile:


I am off to make chili! It's so cold out I want something really nice for dinner.

I can relate to that! My father owned a recycling yard and part of the business was a truck scale. This should be much easier! Lol.

Whereismycoffee

I can relate to that! My father owned a recycling yard and part of the business was a truck scale. This should be much easier! Lol.

Two things, 1) chili came out great! 2) didn't freeze myself silly.

And at least I didn't have to go out in the cold and yell at drivers to back their trailers, since they couldn't hit the huge metal pads (that were a nice bright YELLOW). Brrrrr its so cold out!

edit to fix bad editing of my post.

evileen99

I prefer to weigh it raw as you don't know if your cooking method will remove as much or more water than the entry you use for cooked meat.