Measurement question...

IamUndrCnstruction
IamUndrCnstruction Posts: 691 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Ok, I used to measure everything....I kind of strayed away from that, but am making an effort to do so again. Question....when I am eating, say, a half a cup of rice (cooked) that's half a cup by weight, correct? Why does it look like so MUCH rice? When I was eyeballing it I would have logged it as at least a cup. Apparently I may have actually been shortchanging myself outta food for awhile now.

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  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    The serving of rice should be BEFORE cooking it.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    How can you measure half a cup by weight?
  • loristokes33
    loristokes33 Posts: 5
    not sure but i would measure it in a measuring cup not by weight only because of extra water may or may not be their. I measure everything because i am really good at fooling myself. lol :tongue:
  • IamUndrCnstruction
    IamUndrCnstruction Posts: 691 Member
    I make more than one serving at a time and keep in a container to use for lunches etc during the week. So how I am supposed to measure it after it's cooked?
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    A cup is not a measurement of weight.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    Look, you're not supposed to measure it, you're supposed to weigh it. Where it says the serving size is 1/2 cup, there's usually a weight in grams next to it. Weigh the rice in grams.

    If you're portioning it out into different containers, put container on the scale, zero out the scale, add rice to appropriate weighted serving size. Ta-da!
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    I make more than one serving at a time and keep in a container to use for lunches etc during the week. So how I am supposed to measure it after it's cooked?
    There are entries in the database (look for the ones without an asterisk)for both uncooked and cooked rice.
  • IamUndrCnstruction
    IamUndrCnstruction Posts: 691 Member
    Yes, perhaps my original post was misunderstood. I WEIGHED (which I believe is what my question actually was) the rice. Half cup to me meaning 4 ounces, as there are 4 ounces in a cup. And it looked like something I would have eyeballed at twice the weight it actually was. Which was all I was trying to say.

    Edited to clarify.
  • PriceK01
    PriceK01 Posts: 834 Member
    Ut oh
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    How may servings did you make?

    Eat the rice for that number of days. Portion by eye if you want. Log one serving of rice.

    At the end of the time, you will have averaged one serving of rice per day. It won't have mattered if you were a little over one day and a little under another.
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    Yes, perhaps my original post was misunderstood. I WEIGHED (which I believe is what my question actually was) the rice. Half cup to me meaning 4 ounces, as there are 4 ounces in a cup. And it looked like something I would have eyeballed at twice the weight it actually was. Which was all I was trying to say.

    Edited to clarify.
    Ok, the confusion came because a cup is not a measurement of weight. A cup of butter would not weigh the same as a cup of flour, or a cup of sugar, for example.
  • PriceK01
    PriceK01 Posts: 834 Member
    Yes, perhaps my original post was misunderstood. I WEIGHED (which I believe is what my question actually was) the rice. Half cup to me meaning 4 ounces, as there are 4 ounces in a cup. And it looked like something I would have eyeballed at twice the weight it actually was. Which was all I was trying to say.

    Edited to clarify.
    Ok, the confusion came because a cup is not a measurement of weight. A cup of butter would not weigh the same as a cup of flour, or a cup of sugar, for example.

    And a 1/2 cup of rice does not weigh 4 oz. Ounces and Fluid Ounces are not the same thing.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    Yes, perhaps my original post was misunderstood. I WEIGHED (which I believe is what my question actually was) the rice. Half cup to me meaning 4 ounces, as there are 4 ounces in a cup. And it looked like something I would have eyeballed at twice the weight it actually was. Which was all I was trying to say.

    Edited to clarify.

    And again, to clarify, CUP is not a measurement of weight. Whatever half a cup means to you is not going to be 4 ounces for everything you have in your cupboard.

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