Weighing Food

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tristamdavis
tristamdavis Posts: 21 Member
in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
do you weigh chicken breast before or after you cook it?

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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
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    I weigh mine before.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
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    Before.
  • LolBroScience
    LolBroScience Posts: 4,537 Member
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    Raw
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,139 Member
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    I do it after...
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
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    Late, but you can do it before or after, just make sure you pick the correct entry in the database (raw vs. cooked, baked, grilled, etc.).
  • Brolympus
    Brolympus Posts: 360 Member
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    asflatasapancake wrote: »
    Before. You can weight it after. Just make sure you log it as cooked because it's going to weight less after. Plus, add in the butter or any oils you used to cook the chicken in if necessary.

    Pretty much this. I usually cook it first. Raw chicken skeeves me out, I don't want it anywhere near the scale I measure my other foods on.
  • Emilia777
    Emilia777 Posts: 978 Member
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    I’ve done both. I used to weigh it after it was cooked and use the usda entry for cooked chicken breast, roasted. One day I was curious how accurate that is, so I weighed the chicken both before and after it was cooked, and created a recipe that converted the nutritional data from raw to cooked in grams. I compared that to the cooked usda entry and it turns out it was within 5-10 calories. I’ve done this twice now with the same result.

    tl;dr: the entry for roasted chicken is going to be quite accurate.

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