Rice quantity

jofromnz

Hi there - Newbie here! Just trying to work our rice quantity - it's easier for me to measure in cups rather than grams (might be a New Zealand thing?!!!). The prgram has rice in 100gm lots - does anyone know how much 3/4 cup of rice would be in grams????? Thanks

SergeantSunshine_reused

dry or cooked?

hermione_ar

110gm dry is half a cup dry - I weighed it last week. That is recommended serving size, but I usually have .4 of a cup.

tickletickle

hiya im in NZ too, i just use the cup measurement one cos im lazy haha

LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo

One serving of rice is 1/2 cup or equivalent to a light bulb or half a tennis ball. 100grams = 1/2 cup, 250g = 1 cup.

I found this gram conversion calculator, you can check this out: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cooking-conversions/gram-conversions-general.aspx

jofromnz

Thanks everyone! Your help is much appreciated! I was after the cooked amount (I should have said that!) as I am assuming the program is counting the rice quantity as cooked rice rather than uncooked. My usual amount of rice is .5 or .75 of a cup so that's good. So nice to be aprt of the community of people!

wolfchild59

I made rice on Monday night and mine came out to 86 g for just barely under a cup when dry. And it looked like it measured about 1 1/2 - 1 3/4 cups total when it was cooked (I did weight the cooked rice, but only to divide it evenly, so I don't remember what it was in grams since I logged the dry weight for caloric measurement)

So with one serving being 43 g uncooked, it made about 3/4 - 7/8 c cooked rice.

And it's usually recommended to measure rice uncooked since it's possible for it to absorb different amounts of water each time you make it, so 1/2 cup of rice one day may have more or less than 1/2 cup of cooked rice another day, which means the calories consumed will be different each time.

Hope this helps.