Should I weigh food before or after cooking it?

LadyZephyr

With some foods I weigh them before cooking, but with most I weigh them after - such as, chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans, that kinda stuff. Should I be weighing them pre-cooking?

SabrinaLily

I agree that it depends, but typically I am weighing my meats and fishes AFTER I cook them.

LadyZephyr

bump

chasetwins

If the nutritional description says {insert calories} Raw....then I measure before cooking. otherwise I always weigh afterwards. All though I am actually pretty certain all meats they base the values on the raw weight. i still weight after lol

KaltieEm

Agreed, if your looking up calories for raw meat, then it's better to weight it before. If you prefer to weight it after it's done look for calories in cooked / baked meat. Some meats contain a lot of water which comes out when you bake it, so if you take a 100g of baked chicken and look up nutrition for 100g of raw chicken it's probably not accurate.

zillah73

I weight/measure everything before cooking.