weighing pasta

angieleighbyrd

cooked or uncooked?

LuckyLeprechaun

weigh it uncooked.

angieleighbyrd

weigh it uncooked.

Ok good, that makes a huge difference. 2 oz of cooked pasta is NOTHING! LOL thank you

ConstableOdo

I use uncooked.

LottieLou13

Dry, uncooked weight

angieleighbyrd

I just found this.....

BY LAW, in the United States, the nutritional information on the box MUST be for the product as it was when they put it in the box. They have to give you the information about the actual thing they are selling to you. They are not selling you cooked pasta; they are selling you dry pasta.

There's no real way to know exactly what size a cooked portion of pasta will be, because it depends on how YOU cook it and how many pieces are broken. Try it yourself; weigh out two 1-ounce portions and cook them in two separate pots. Cook one for 7 minutes and cook the other for 15 minutes, and then measure each one. The 15-minute one will take up much more room in the cup because it will have more (zero-calorie) water swelling it. (Unless it dissolves into mush from being overcooked.) It will also weigh more. The weight *before* the water is the accurate one.

LuckyLeprechaun

very welcome.

In my food diary, I note how much the cooked amount weighed, too. So in the future, I know that 50 grams of uncooked spaghetti turns into 130 grams of finished pasta.

That way I don't always have to cook my portion separately.