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confused about size of meat and weight

tammymusic1
tammymusic1 Posts: 243 Member
edited January 22 in Food and Nutrition
Ok I am a little confused here. Everything says for meat portion go by the palm of your hand and that is about 4oz so that is what I have been doing . But I got a scale yesterday and tried it out today for my turkey burger patty. It was the size of my palm but i weighted it and it only came up to 2.5 oz Do I just have really tiny hands. Or could my scale be wrong. Brand new from amazon.

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  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    Weigh it. Eat it. I'd trust the scale before my eyes. Grab something from the fridge which has a weight listed with a light container. Butter, a yogurt pot, anything to calibrate. The packaging doesn't weigh too much. Is it slightly over the listed weight? Your scale is probably fairly close.
  • FFfitgirl
    FFfitgirl Posts: 369 Member
    Before or after it was cooked?
  • tammymusic1
    tammymusic1 Posts: 243 Member
    Oh after it was cooked should it be before
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