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Meatloaf weight?

summer528
summer528 Posts: 1
edited January 3 in Food and Nutrition
Should I use the weight before or after I cook it?
Thanks!

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  • kellicci
    kellicci Posts: 409 Member
    Do you mean for the recipe tab here?

    I always use the weight of the meat before cooking in the recipe and then after I cook it I adjust the number of servings to what I have cut it into. If I cut 10 equal peices I enter 10 as the number of servings and that seems to work.
  • Jormesher
    Jormesher Posts: 46 Member
    I'm not an expert and always have a hard time figuring the counts out. Here's the receipe I use. It is so YUM!

    http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/classic-meat-loaf-10000001160600/
  • wolfchild59
    wolfchild59 Posts: 2,608 Member
    Weigh all of the ingredients as you put them in in order to enter the recipe correctly into MFP.

    Then, to divide it evenly into the number of servings you want, weigh it after it's cooked and then divide by the number of servings. e.g. your meatloaf weighs 800 grams after it's cooked, and you entered the recipe as 8 servings, then you'd weigh out 100 gram serving sizes.

    But the weight after it's cooked shouldn't be used for calculating anything other than the portion sizes. Answering as someone that worked in and around a professional kitchen for six years and grew up with a mom that trained in professional kitchens as well.
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