Weigh raw egg with or without shell?

I weigh the shopping cart and grocery bagger.
One can never be too careful!

EGGCELLENT notion!! just in case some skin cells got latched onto the eggs and bananas!!

I weigh eggs, too, because I get them from my CSA and not the grocery store so they are all different sizes, but even the ones you get at the store aren't all the same size. I weigh bananas and all the other fruit I eat, too. I have enough meals or portions of meals that I can't weigh from eating out most work days at lunch that I feel like I should weigh everything I can. You might be surprised how far off the nutrition labels are, too, especially with slices of bread and pre-sliced cheese.

I weigh EVERYTHING and even I don't weigh eggs. They're already weighed when they're sorted in to the sizes they're sold as- Large, XL, Jumbo, etc.

As for bananas- I did actually weigh a few of them when I first started so I could get a visual understanding of 'large' and 'medium' bananas. You weigh them without skin. The thing about bananas is- one of the main benefits is that you can get them as convenience foods- and weighing them every time you're going to have one is very inconvenient. Don't make this harder on yourself than you need to.

This. exactly. I started out weighing EVERYTHING. Then, I got to where I could estimate pretty well when I'm not in my kitchen. If I am in my kitchen, I still weigh things. I frequently even use my scale to portion out my recipe into 4 equal servings. That level of OCD and I don't weigh eggs. I also generally use egg whites though... I think the yolk tastes icky.

I weigh eggs, too, because I get them from my CSA and not the grocery store so they are all different sizes, but even the ones you get at the store aren't all the same size. I weigh bananas and all the other fruit I eat, too. I have enough meals or portions of meals that I can't weigh from eating out most work days at lunch that I feel like I should weigh everything I can. You might be surprised how far off the nutrition labels are, too, especially with slices of bread and pre-sliced cheese.

Seems silly, since the yolk:white ratio is what actually matters. No point in weighing an egg if you aren't going to log the yolk and white separately.

Ok, I am going to ask a stupid question............I count the calories and ensure I use the correct serving size for my log. But why do people weigh their food, whats the benefit to this? Am I missing something? And for the recorded I guess I would only weigh what I eat, so without the shell.

Accuracy. Some of the things also don't have options for serving sizes other than weight.

I only weigh what I eat............................

egg shells and banana peels tastes so good.............with enough hot sauce

I just laughed so hard I almost spit out my drink! :laugh:

I only weigh what I eat............................

egg shells and banana peels tastes so good.............with enough hot sauce

I just laughed so hard I almost spit out my drink! :laugh:

my bad I'll try harder next time, projectile liquid is a goal of mine

No, I get why you'd want to weigh your eggs, I mean, some packs come in mixed sizes, and different countries have different sizes. The database entry lists small, medium, large, extra large and jumbo. What I buy as medium or large here correlates to the large or extra large in the database.
Personally, I just match up my egg carton data to the closest nutrition by picking whatever size comes closest to what my pack says. But yeah, shell weight's negligible.

Edit; don't weigh what you won't eat with food.

Can't believe how *****y you all are! It's a completely valid question! And one I think a lot of people wonder about, including myself. Well done for being accurate with food amounts! That's what gets results week after week.

Honestly you are overthinking it. Just eat the egg and log it as 1 egg ( large,jumbo,medium etc.) I also weigh out food but I don't worry about the weight of an egg. Worry about the measurements that will make a big difference (peanut butter, oil, butter, etc) its way easier to add say an extra 100 calories of those things than say an "egg". I am not mocking you at all either I'm just saying sometimes people really make things harder than they really need to be.

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I'd say that since an egg shell weighs something like one megabajillinth of an ounce, you might not need to seriously worry about it.
As for the banana, that is a bit easier to weigh without the peel, but I think you might be better off just logging in the 'banana, large, medium, small etc.'

By the way, have you ever watched the show MONK?

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Grrrr, I didn't even notice it was a zombie thread! That'll teach me for trying to be all helpful and whatnot :grumble: