When do you weigh you meat?

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  • jojorocksforeva
    jojorocksforeva Posts: 303 Member
    After it cooks ofcourse.
  • sunshine1992
    sunshine1992 Posts: 22 Member
    I usually weigh after I cook, mainly because it is rare I cook just for me or just for one meal. I will cook up say 750g of chicken breast, and use it through the week.

    I know it's not perfect, but I am not going to lose any sleep over an odd 50 calories. What is the worst that can happen? It takes a few more weeks to reach my goal. I am never right on my calorie goal that it would matter a huge amount anyway.
  • gsager
    gsager Posts: 977 Member
    I weigh before if it's like a steak. I cook chicken breasts for the week to go on my salads for lunch. When I measure it after its cooked I weigh 3oz. for a 4oz serving since cooking dehydrates it.
  • gp79
    gp79 Posts: 1,799 Member
    It depends. Always weight before if you know how much you want to eat and can pre-portion it. ie. chicken breasts

    Weight it before and after for things such as a roast. If it went in at 20 ounces and came out at 10 ounces. Eating 5 ounces of cooked is as if you were eating 10 ounces of raw. Those are extreme figures but it goes to show my point. At the end of the day...it's all an estimation anyway as there's no 100 foolproof way for the average person to know exactly how many calories are from protein and fat.
  • MaryJane_8810002
    MaryJane_8810002 Posts: 2,082 Member
    I weigh it raw.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I don't. Lol. I use the raw weight though... I guesstimate. Like if a package of chicken is 1.15 pounds and it has 10 little "strips" then each one is 1.84 oz roughly...
  • tamellis003
    tamellis003 Posts: 3 Member
    Does it really matter? What if you cooked it, weighed the cooked meat to weigh the same as if it was raw?
  • Linda_Darlene
    Linda_Darlene Posts: 453 Member
    If I'm dealing with a hunk of meat or fish (yum) I weigh mine cooked as well, be it baked, grilled outside or on my George Foreman.
  • Linda_Darlene
    Linda_Darlene Posts: 453 Member
    Always weigh prior to cooking.

    4oz of raw, boneless skinless chicken breast is 120calories. You cook it, one of two things happens:
    1. you cook it perfectly and it's moist and juicy in the middle still, it now weighs about 3.5oz because of the water is lost while cooking.
    2. you overcook it and it's now sorta dry and tough, it now weighs about 3 oz because it lost a lot more water.

    If you weigh outcome 1, you'll be entering 105 calories for that 120 calories of chicken breast.
    If you weigh outcome 2, you'll be entering 90 calories for that 120 calories of chicken breast.

    Yes, some fattier meats will lose some of the fat while cooking, but it's still always meant to weighed raw since there is no way to account for how much or how little of anything is actually going to cook out of the meat. If you order a 1/4 pound burger at a restaurant, you are getting a burger that weighed 1/4 of a pound before it was cooked, because that's just the standardized way that meat is weighed and nutritionally recorded.

    This makes sense.
  • Linda_Darlene
    Linda_Darlene Posts: 453 Member
    Right before I eat it :wink:

    :bigsmile:
  • LisaH1967
    LisaH1967 Posts: 332 Member
    Most of the time I weigh mine after.
  • KiltFuPanda
    KiltFuPanda Posts: 574 Member
    I weigh mine before - I have a scale that automatically deducts the weight of the plate that I'm putting the meat on just for this purpose. Even if some of that weight is fat that gets melted out, it gets calculated in. I'd rather be overshooting my count of calories rather than be under.
  • tweetybaby69
    tweetybaby69 Posts: 258 Member
    Friday mornings

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :drinker:
  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
    I have a friend do it.
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    I weight everything raw, and log it as raw. Anything I add for cooking (oil/spices/marinades etc) I add separately.
  • jessicae1aine
    jessicae1aine Posts: 885
    what if your recording the calories for grilled chicken or grilled steak not raw

    That depends. Are you eating a grilled chicken breast? Your average chicken breast weighs 4oz, so use that to estimate. MOST foods will have a standard average weight, so it should be fairly easy to guess those.

    Not sure on your steak? Well, I guess you'll have to weigh that and go from there.
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    Does it really matter? What if you cooked it, weighed the cooked meat to weigh the same as if it was raw?

    Meat doesn't weigh the same after cooking as it does raw.
  • zaph0d
    zaph0d Posts: 1,172 Member
    If you log is as raw meat, you use the raw weight. If you log it as cooked meat, you use the cooked weight. Capice?
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    If you log is as raw meat, you use the raw weight. If you log it as cooked meat, you use the cooked weight. Capice?

    You're a bloody maverick. A maverick I tell you!

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