How do you count marinades

PatrickH59
PatrickH59 Posts: 5 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Tonight I am grilling some marinated chicken breast, and I was wondering how the marinade is counted. I don't think I should include all the marinade because much of it ends up left in the bowl and some of it will be burned off in the grilling process. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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  • JohnBarth
    JohnBarth Posts: 672 Member
    I don't count it at all. I count my chicken from a frozen state which is slightly more than fresh, so I'm overcounting a bit on the chicken already. A majority of the marinade is left in the bowl/bag or cooked off during the cooking process.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    What you can do is create a recipe for the marinade only. Weigh before and when you are done marinading, pour into a bowl and re weigh and adjust your entry.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    I count it all and throw the spare in the pan with my veggies to go with the meat.
  • PatrickH59
    PatrickH59 Posts: 5 Member
    Thanks for the input everyone. I was kind of hoping there would be a rule of thumb, like 10% or something. Ended up tossing the left over and not counting it, but cooking it with veggies would have been a good idea.
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    Unless there's a ton of oil in your marinade, don't bother.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I enter the recipe for the marinade in the recipe builder. Then I weigh it, and make that weight the number of servings. Then after the meat is done marinating I weigh what's left of the marinade and log the difference.
  • galgenstrick
    galgenstrick Posts: 2,086 Member
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    I enter the recipe for the marinade in the recipe builder. Then I weigh it, and make that weight the number of servings. Then after the meat is done marinating I weigh what's left of the marinade and log the difference.

    This is probably the most accurate way. And I would do this if there was a bit of oil in the marinade, otherwise it would be too much work and I wouldn't bother
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I log the meat and 2 tbsp of marinade.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    galgenstrick wrote: »
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    I enter the recipe for the marinade in the recipe builder. Then I weigh it, and make that weight the number of servings. Then after the meat is done marinating I weigh what's left of the marinade and log the difference.

    This is probably the most accurate way. And I would do this if there was a bit of oil in the marinade, otherwise it would be too much work and I wouldn't bother

    I probably wouldn't if I had any marinades that weren't oil based, but all of mine are. The other option, which I've also used, is to pour the rest of the marinade on top of whatever veggies I'm cooking. I saw that mentioned earlier in the thread too.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    galgenstrick wrote: »
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    I enter the recipe for the marinade in the recipe builder. Then I weigh it, and make that weight the number of servings. Then after the meat is done marinating I weigh what's left of the marinade and log the difference.

    This is probably the most accurate way. And I would do this if there was a bit of oil in the marinade, otherwise it would be too much work and I wouldn't bother

    I probably wouldn't if I had any marinades that weren't oil based, but all of mine are. The other option, which I've also used, is to pour the rest of the marinade on top of whatever veggies I'm cooking. I saw that mentioned earlier in the thread too.

    I have several non oil based marinades that are higher in calories. But it really dependa how accurate you want to be.

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