Should I weigh food before or after cooking it?

LadyZephyr
Posts: 286 Member
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?
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I agree that it depends, but typically I am weighing my meats and fishes AFTER I cook them.0
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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 lol0
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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.0
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I weight/measure everything before cooking.0
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