Help! Cooked pasta

fatcity66
fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
in Food and Nutrition
If you weigh cooked pasta, how do you enter it in your food tracker? The only entries I ever see are for dry pasta, usually 2 oz. How much is that cooked? I know that measuring cooked by the cup is very inaccurate. I cook a batch of pasta at once, so I can't measure one portion out and cook it by itself. I can't figure this out and pasta is one of the worst things to underestimate!

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  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,858 Member
    I weighed my cooked pasta once after pre-weighing and cooking 2oz (I was on my own that night!). Mine turned out to be about 5oz cooked, and I cooked mine al dente. Softer would probably be heavier (more water absorbed)
  • onefortyone
    onefortyone Posts: 531 Member
    It may be too late for this batch, but usually before I cook a batch of something, I know roughly how many 'servings' I'm making, like a 1lb box of pasta is 8 servings. Then I'll tare out a big bowl, drain the pasta and weight it on my food scale (usually I don't make 8 servings, because my food scale is actually a postage calculator that only goes up to 5lbs). Then I know how much it all weighs, and I'll divide THAT number by 8 to get how much 1 serving should weigh.

    So when it comes to serving, I have 1/8th, same for hubby, and then I also know how much is left.

    Alternatively, if you can't weigh it, you can use 4 tupperware containers (assuming 8 servings again), and fill them up relatively evenly. Each container is 2 servings and a bit easier to eyeball in half for one, and the rest you can stick in the fridge.

    Hope that helps :)
  • TheSaoirseTree
    TheSaoirseTree Posts: 26 Member
    If I use less than a whole package, I weigh the full amount of pasta that I'm making before and after cooking. So if I have 8 oz uncooked and 16 oz cooked, I can figure out that one serving is 4 oz.
  • Kate7294
    Kate7294 Posts: 783 Member
    A whole box of my pasta also made 8 servings. Usually right at 1 cup in my case.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    You can either look up nutritional info for cooked pasta (skipthepie, nutritiondata, caloriecount, etc all have this) and just use that even if it's not totally accurate, or simply enter in the raw weight that you cooked if you're eating it all.

    Otherwise, I cook my pasta pretty well and it tends to be about 2.2x heavier. So 45g will be around 95g cooked for me once I've drained and let it cool down.

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