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Weighing food before or after cooking?

bexxxster
bexxxster Posts: 88 Member
edited March 3 in Recipes
Do you guys weigh your food before or after cooking?

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  • lorilach08
    lorilach08 Posts: 2 Member
    I weigh my meat after cooking because it does shrink.
  • zetodd
    zetodd Posts: 22 Member
    Some of the entries will say the state of of the item, ie. grilled, boiled, raw, etc. Just use the appropriate entry.

    Most items outside of meat I tend to weigh raw.
  • Calabrisellamia
    Calabrisellamia Posts: 64 Member
    I weigh my food before cooking....not after.
  • Going4Lean
    Going4Lean Posts: 1,078 Member
    i look at what the nutritional label says and it usually says raw/uncooked .
  • jpapp13
    jpapp13 Posts: 73 Member
    This depends on the food, but as most has stated generally the food database will state raw, cooked, boiled, etc.
    If I'm recipe building generally everything is raw, but there are things like chicken thighs that I remove meat from the bone AFTER cooking and will weigh then ..
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