pasta ( measuring)

lin7604

when you are trying to measure your portion of pasta... on the label is it for dry or cooked? i was looking at elbow noodles and it was 310 cals for 85g serving but it didn't say if it was cooked or dry?

oldmanstauf

Label is for dry (unless otherwise stated)

Anna800

I always do 55 grams, that's what's on the bag of all the different pastas and noodles I use for one serving which end up being around 200 calories. I measure dry.

lin7604

thx... so does one know much much more volume it takes when cooked? i was looking for a 1 cup serving of elbow macaroni... would that be just 1/2 cup dry, like rice is???

nursenessa1

Doesn't the dry weight equal the portion cooked?

ElizabethRoad

Look up "elbow noodles cooked" in the database.

Pandorian

Take 50 grams of pasta dry... you weighed it to get that.. cook it to al dente (still crunchy) and weight it now.. it will weigh more than the 50 grams....(some people consider that "cooked") now cook it through to fully cooked or til the point it's about to fall apart from all the water it has absorbed... it will weigh more than the 50 gram dry, and more than what it weighed al dente...

raw is the "only" way to take the same pasta and get the same calorie count out of the end result. Same with a piece of steak, starts at 6 ounces, cook blue rare, it'll weigh something less, cook to well done... it'll weigh something less than blue rare.

lin7604

thx again everyone. i just wasn't sure if it was kinda like rice where a 1/2 cup uncooked equals to 1 cup cooked. i am making meals ahead to freeze and wanted to make sure i cooked enough to go with 4-5 portions. i put 1 cup cooked in each portion.