quick food-weighing question

TattooedMommy427
TattooedMommy427 Posts: 283 Member
edited September 24 in Food and Nutrition
Dumb question, are you supposed to weigh spaghetti (or any other noodles) before of after it's cooked? I alway have done after, but today I did both and the weight was DOUBLE after cooked, so now I'm confused.

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  • eating4balance
    eating4balance Posts: 743 Member
    The weight measurement is for before you cook the pasta, unless otherwise noted.
  • abyt42
    abyt42 Posts: 1,358 Member
    I thought all weights were for food in its raw state....(raw vs. cooked meats, raw vs. cooked veg, etc.) unless specified.
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
    Weigh it before cooking. The package or box should show "dry" in the serving size info.
  • Losing2Live69
    Losing2Live69 Posts: 743 Member
    A serving is 1 ounce uncooked, 2 ounces cooked. The two ounce serving size is referring to the cooked weight.
  • TattooedMommy427
    TattooedMommy427 Posts: 283 Member
    Thank you. I've totally been gipping myself on the spaghetti noodles. lol Do you know how much 2oz of COOKED spaghetti is? lol
  • Losing2Live69
    Losing2Live69 Posts: 743 Member
    I had no idea how to weigh it either. This is the website I went to to figure it out. http://www.nutritionwithamy.com/?p=129
  • darwintheboxer
    darwintheboxer Posts: 51
    A serving is 1 ounce uncooked, 2 ounces cooked. The two ounce serving size is referring to the cooked weight.

    For dry packaged pasta sold in the United States, one serving is typically 2 oz. DRY.
    8 servings per box = 16 oz. = 1lb of dry pasta.
  • fitzie63
    fitzie63 Posts: 508 Member
    BEFORE YOU TURN ON THE FOOD SCALE: Place a plastic container on top of it, then put your pasta in there until it reaches the DRY WEIGHT serving size.

    NOTE: Most of the newer digital food scales will do a NET WEIGHT if you put the container on the weighing tablet BEFORE turning the device on.

    PASTA is always weighed as a DRY WEIGHT ... not cooked weight.
  • 3LittleMonkeys
    3LittleMonkeys Posts: 373 Member
    The food weighing/measureing in the raw state drives me nuts. It isn't practical when cooking for a family.
  • MzBug
    MzBug Posts: 2,173 Member
    2 ounces of dry spaghetti or linguini come out to just shy of a cup cooked.
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