How to weigh rice?
elphie754
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I know that weighing things dry/before cooking is the most accurately, but that's not really feasible any more. I recently got a rice cooker, so it makes multiple servings (before that we had always has individual rice ups). I can't seem to find a weight for cooked rice-like how many grams dry=how many grams cooked. I know that depends on how much water the rice absorbs but the absorbency seem pretty consistent with the rice cooker.
The only thing I can find is 1/4cup dry = 1 cup cooked, but that doesn't really help since I believe in weighing my food for better accuracy.
The only thing I can find is 1/4cup dry = 1 cup cooked, but that doesn't really help since I believe in weighing my food for better accuracy.
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i use a cooked rice entry. its there.
white- medium grain rice- cooked - something like that. theres an entry for it in grams.0 -
I would use the recipe builder for this. Each time you make it, open your rice recipe and update it with the water amount and weight of the dry rice. Cook the rice. Then weigh the cooked product and adjust the number of servings on the rice recipe to be equal to the weight of the cooked rice in grams. Then, scoop out however much rice you want to eat, weigh it, and enter the weight in grams as the number of servings of that recipe that you are eating.0
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I just used a "cooked" entry. Last night with my salmon and garden salad I had, "Diamond - Calrose Short Grain Rice Cooked, 6 oz."0
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I would use the recipe builder for this. Each time you make it, open your rice recipe and update it with the water amount and weight of the dry rice. Cook the rice. Then weigh the cooked product and adjust the number of servings on the rice recipe to be equal to the weight of the cooked rice in grams. Then, scoop out however much rice you want to eat, weigh it, and enter the weight in grams as the number of servings of that recipe that you are eating.
I do something similar to this. I only make rice for me so I just weigh the dry rice (usually I weigh out exactly 4 servings). Then after it's cooked, I weigh the cooked amount. Then everytime I eat it, I take out 1/4 of the cooked weight for one serving.0 -
Sometimes you just can't be that accurate (like when you are cooking for multiple people) and you've just got to let it go (the cold never bothered me anyway).0
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For my Thai jasmine rice, 75 g cooked = 1/2 cup cooked. The package says a standard serving is 1/4 C dry (45 grams) = 3/4 C cooked. (Note a serving size for me is 1/2 C rather than 3/4 C.)
You could do it in the recipe builder once and then use that result moving forward.
Dry rice is not something I normally weigh as it is dense and easy to level off, but I did for this question and was off by a half a gram, so close enough0 -
I simply use the cooked long grain entry and weigh my cooked portion.0
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I weight mine and divide it by 1.8 to get the original dry weight and input that into MFP0
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kshama2001 wrote: »For my Thai jasmine rice, 75 g cooked = 1/2 cup cooked. The package says a standard serving is 1/4 C dry (45 grams) = 3/4 C cooked. (Note a serving size for me is 1/2 C rather than 3/4 C.)
You could do it in the recipe builder once and then use that result moving forward.
Dry rice is not something I normally weigh as it is dense and easy to level off, but I did for this question and was off by a half a gram, so close enough
Haha I weigh everything, even packaged things.BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »Sometimes you just can't be that accurate (like when you are cooking for multiple people) and you've just got to let it go (the cold never bothered me anyway).
So I should put my health aside and forget about weighing? Not trying to be rude accuracy is key for me to lose weight.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »For my Thai jasmine rice, 75 g cooked = 1/2 cup cooked. The package says a standard serving is 1/4 C dry (45 grams) = 3/4 C cooked. (Note a serving size for me is 1/2 C rather than 3/4 C.)
You could do it in the recipe builder once and then use that result moving forward.
Dry rice is not something I normally weigh as it is dense and easy to level off, but I did for this question and was off by a half a gram, so close enough
Haha I weigh everything, even packaged things.BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »Sometimes you just can't be that accurate (like when you are cooking for multiple people) and you've just got to let it go (the cold never bothered me anyway).
So I should put my health aside and forget about weighing? Not trying to be rude accuracy is key for me to lose weight.
I think you are over dramatizing the issue, your health will not be adversely affected if you are off slightly in your rice measurement. The easiest was I have found is to weight it dry, then cooked. Then simply remember that a half cup of cooked rice weighs 2.8oz.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »For my Thai jasmine rice, 75 g cooked = 1/2 cup cooked. The package says a standard serving is 1/4 C dry (45 grams) = 3/4 C cooked. (Note a serving size for me is 1/2 C rather than 3/4 C.)
You could do it in the recipe builder once and then use that result moving forward.
Dry rice is not something I normally weigh as it is dense and easy to level off, but I did for this question and was off by a half a gram, so close enough
Haha I weigh everything, even packaged things.BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »Sometimes you just can't be that accurate (like when you are cooking for multiple people) and you've just got to let it go (the cold never bothered me anyway).
So I should put my health aside and forget about weighing? Not trying to be rude accuracy is key for me to lose weight.
If you want to weigh as accurately as possible after it's cooked, the only real way to do it is as described above by using the recipe builder and weighing the cooked batch every time to get the batch weight and then weighing off your portion.0 -
Weigh each grain separately and add them all together by hand. Guarantee you will lose weight - cause you'll never have time to actually eat!!!0
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jeepinshawn wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »For my Thai jasmine rice, 75 g cooked = 1/2 cup cooked. The package says a standard serving is 1/4 C dry (45 grams) = 3/4 C cooked. (Note a serving size for me is 1/2 C rather than 3/4 C.)
You could do it in the recipe builder once and then use that result moving forward.
Dry rice is not something I normally weigh as it is dense and easy to level off, but I did for this question and was off by a half a gram, so close enough
Haha I weigh everything, even packaged things.BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »Sometimes you just can't be that accurate (like when you are cooking for multiple people) and you've just got to let it go (the cold never bothered me anyway).
So I should put my health aside and forget about weighing? Not trying to be rude accuracy is key for me to lose weight.
I think you are over dramatizing the issue, your health will not be adversely affected if you are off slightly in your rice measurement. The easiest was I have found is to weight it dry, then cooked. Then simply remember that a half cup of cooked rice weighs 2.8oz.
The mentally that it doesn't matter if a few calories over is part of the reasonnis kind of a "big dea" to me. Made up numbers a head Sure the rice may actually be 110 calories but I calculated at 90 calls, then decide that I don't need to be precise with corn, the actuall serving size is 75 and because of not bein accurate I calculated 60 cals. All the little discrepancies add up.
I try to stay as precise as possible so that if I don't lose one week, I can see where I went wrong (over ate, sodium etc). Also- minor miscalculations can added up. The only way for me to lose weight is being in a calorie deficit and weighing all my food to ensure I am not exceeding it.kshama2001 wrote: »For my Thai jasmine rice, 75 g cooked = 1/2 cup cooked. The package says a standard serving is 1/4 C dry (45 grams) = 3/4 C cooked. (Note a serving size for me is 1/2 C rather than 3/4 C.)
You could do it in the recipe builder once and then use that result moving forward.
Dry rice is not something I normally weigh as it is dense and easy to level off, but I did for this question and was off by a half a gram, so close enough
Haha I weigh everything, even packaged things.BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »Sometimes you just can't be that accurate (like when you are cooking for multiple people) and you've just got to let it go (the cold never bothered me anyway).
So I should put my health aside and forget about weighing? Not trying to be rude accuracy is key for me to lose weight.
If you want to weigh as accurately as possible after it's cooked, the only real way to do it is as described above by using the recipe builder and weighing the cooked batch every time to get the batch weight and then weighing off your portion.
I know that it won't be accurate, but try for an accurate as possible.allenpriest wrote: »Weigh each grain separately and add them all together by hand. Guarantee you will lose weight - cause you'll never have time to actually eat!!!
Hahahahaha! Thank you, I needed a laugh.0 -
Trust me, I aspire to great accuracy as well. Heck, I WEIGH my flippin glass of wine (yep, there's a verified entry for that lol). But, I do accuracy as best that is practical, not necessarily possible. But, I am also consistent in the way I measure. Consistency + practicality is my success.
Oh, and I use the verified cooked rice entry, using the weighted serving. Because I share that pot of rice with the family. I do the same for batch cooked chicken shared by the household for the week. I would pull out my hair if I had to figure out raw weights for such things, let alone recipe build or other nonsense for each single item of one meal.0 -
BusyRaeNOTBusty wrote: »Sometimes you just can't be that accurate (like when you are cooking for multiple people) and you've just got to let it go (the cold never bothered me anyway).
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When I cook a new type/ brand of rice, I make a four portion serving (usually a cup dry but I weigh out 4 times whatever number of grams the label says is a serving), cook it up, weigh the total cooked rice, divide by four and then write that number on the bag of rice. Weigh your empty rice cooking pot first or you'll have to transfer the cooked rice into an empty container.0
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When I cook a new type/ brand of rice, I make a four portion serving (usually a cup dry but I weigh out 4 times whatever number of grams the label says is a serving), cook it up, weigh the total cooked rice, divide by four and then write that number on the bag of rice. Weigh your empty rice cooking pot first or you'll have to transfer the cooked rice into an empty container.
Great idea. Will do this the next time I cook rice.0 -
I weigh it dry and usually had the amount of calories in the pack. Then after i cook it i estimate how much i ate
Eg i usually cook 1 cup dry, a put around 1/4 or 1/3 on my plate and the rest is for hubby/child0 -
On the same topic- which is "heavier", frozen or cooked food? The meal is completely frozen and you can't break it to one serving and weigh that so would have to weigh after cooking. Just not sure if the serving size weight is for frozen or cooked product.0
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I think my second question have have gotten lost/not answered because people saw the first one was already answered:0
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