what does 16 oz of chow mein look like?

slemonfit

i ate some chow mein at arestaurant, it said 16z is about 850 calories
but, it was maybe about a cup or maybe at most a pint of noodles (it was spread on a small plate so hard to tell)
is that 16oz?
if it was really 900 calories then it was very dense because it wasnt very filling
it had oil and it was made from egg noodles
im just trying to get an estimate, if i ate like 400 calories or 800 calories
thanks!

HeidiCooksSupper

It's very difficult to estimate something like this. "16 oz." can have different meanings. 16 oz. is 1 pound by weight. It is 1 pint by volume.

1 pint (16 liquid ounces) of chow mein is probably less than 1 pound (16 oz. by weight) because the weight by volume of chow mein is probably less than the weight by volume of water, in other words, chow mein "floats."

A pound of lead, on the other hand, is very small -- much less than a pint container filled with lead. Fill a pint container with molten lead and it would weigh over 12 pounds!

How many calories your restaurant chow mein had in it will require you to estimate not only how much you had but what the ingredients were -- especially how greasy/fatty it was and how much rice you had. The oil and the rice are the high calorie factors, the vegetables not so much. You also need to consider the meat in it.

I would try to eye-ball how much you had then look at the various chow meins in the food database using the database tab (not the add to a meal method). Based on that, make a good guess. Since you say it was a greasy chow mein, I would err on the high side.

slemonfit

it was a chicken chow mein
it wasnt too greasy but it did have some oil in it i guess
i guess i probably at like 400-600 calories, there wasnt any rice in it just noodles
it didnt seem like that much noodles so if it was really 850 that would be a lot

dbmata

A pound of lead, on the other hand, is very small -- much less than a pint container filled with lead. Fill a pint container with molten lead and it would weigh over 12 pounds!

Do you reload? Only people I've heard make connections like this were the reloading and mould your own crowd.

dbmata

it was a chicken chow mein
it wasnt too greasy but it did have some oil in it i guess
i guess i probably at like 400-600 calories, there wasnt any rice in it just noodles
it didnt seem like that much noodles so if it was really 850 that would be a lot

When I cooked, I spent a little time as a wok cook because it was fun.

Each batch of chowmein would start with a 2oz ladle of oil, and 10oz of egg noodles. Then we'd add in poached chicken, egg, whatever else. We also poached our chicken in oil, hong kong style. Or stuff didn't end up greasy either, so I could see how a plate of chow mein at a greasy chopstick could be smack ton of calories.