How do you fiqure up dry pasta verse cooked pasta

tammyj770
tammyj770 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am trying to fiqure this out. What does 2oz of dry pasta count as ounces on my scale???????

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  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    Weigh it dry and log that number.
  • rubyjune27
    rubyjune27 Posts: 87 Member
    It is about double. If you weigh 2 oz dry you will end up with about 4 oz cooked. Not exactly but close
  • MyM0wM0w
    MyM0wM0w Posts: 2,008 Member
    I weight mine dry as well and then cook it.

    MOST pasta will tell you on the package what the cooked pasta equates in cup size but I try not to trust that and measure it dry before cooking.
  • weird_me2
    weird_me2 Posts: 716 Member
    If you want the best accuracy, weigh the dry pasta. Cook it, drain it, then weigh the resulting pasta. Divide that by how many servings you cooked and that gives you the cooked weight. For example, the other day I cooked up 10 oz of dry pasta and wound up with almost 23 oz of cooked pasta. That comes to about 4.5 oz of cooked pasta per 2 oz dry serving. If you cook yours more or less, it will be a different weight.
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    If you want to know what it will weigh cooked, weigh out 2oz before cooking and then weigh it again after cooking. Also, note any increase in volume if you want to be able to eyeball it in the future if you go to a restaurant or something. That way you'll be able to make a somewhat accurate guess if you know how much it looks like.

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