Question about weight of food....
haileyco
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I was curious, when entering in meat portions (chicken, pork chop, hamburger, fish, etc) and it is based on weight. Is it the weight before or after it is cooked?
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Depends on the listing. If the listing says "grilled chicken breast" then it is the weight after cooking. If it says raw, then it's the weight before cooking.0
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thanks!!!0
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You should definitely choose the listings that are specific about cooked or raw. I was so confused by chicken was so much more caloric than turkey until I realized I was entering raw weight for cooked chicken (but did the turkey correctly).
A side note, I'm a chemist and we never weigh things while they are hot; it messes with the measurement and the scale. I'm guessing most kitchen scales are not that measurement sensitive, but you might want to be cautious measuring hot cooked food. I try to measure them all raw since I tend to mix things together or forget to measure after I get done cooking.0 -
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