How do you weigh YOUR chicken?

healthymomwannabe

I always use frozen chicken breast. It obviously weighs more frozen than when grilled. So when entering the chicken into my food diary, should I enter the frozen weight or grilled weight?

musicgirl88

I weigh my plate, tare it out to zero, then add the chicken to the plate after it's cooked. I think it's better to weigh the cooked weight, not the frozen weight.

Pandorian

i weigh all my meats raw, restaraunts do the same, check our their menu's they very pointedly indicate that the 1/4 lb weight refers to uncooked weight.
Same with pasta and the like, measure it dry because that's the only way to get the "same": calorie count as someone else when you cook al dente and they cook it so long it's on the verge of falling apart.

veggeslady

defrosted raw weight.

NowGoWorkout

Remember one rule, and will solve so many of the questions on this board. Record conservatively. If it's kcal intake (food), always record the heavier / more calorically dense version. If it's kcal expenditure (exercise), always record the lower burn.

meggiecb

You always want to weigh your meat after it is cooked !

pyro13g

You have to pick the correct category.

Chicken - Frozen/Raw

Chicken - Grilled

Your losing mostly water weight when grilling chicken breast.

juliapurpletoes

go to our database and put this in:

Chicken - Breast, meat only, cooked, roasted


I always record my cooked weight, because it is just easier that way.

If you search the database and put "cooked" in you will find many options for most proteins...

Pandorian

Even the cooked can be different, weighing raw is what gives you the same starting point, you and someone else can start with a 4 oz chicken breast and cook them to your desired level of done and have the weight be different as one cooks the item more "well done" than rare.