2 oz uncooked spaghetti = 1 cup cooked spaghetti?

savanaburen
savanaburen Posts: 18 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Does this sound correct? It was what I was brought up believing, what are people's thoughts?

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  • patsyacs
    patsyacs Posts: 1,322 Member
    sounds about right. have you tried measuring it?
  • savanaburen
    savanaburen Posts: 18 Member
    patsyacs wrote: »
    sounds about right. have you tried measuring it?

    Not yet, planning to though. Only just found a yummy type of gluten-free spaghetti, so I'm getting back into the swing of things. Thank goodness for Trader Joe's!
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  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    I have found that my pasta, fully cooked, weighs about twice what the dry pasta did. This has been pretty consistent for me, with freshly cooked pasta.
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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2016
    2 ounces uncooked is about 1 cup cooked.

    https://www.barilla.com/en-us/help/measuring-pasta
  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
    What I do with pasta is weigh it dry, then cook it. I accept 2 oz as "a portion." I cook it then weigh the drained pasta (pasta minus the weight of the colander) and divide that weight by portion #. It takes about 5 seconds & I get a better measure than using "cups."
  • ummijaaz560
    ummijaaz560 Posts: 228 Member
    My spaghetti tonight weighed 56 grams dry and 129 grams cooked :)
  • Mumu190672
    Mumu190672 Posts: 76 Member
    I didn't checked but on my bag of pasta it says 75 grams dry pasta is about 170 grams cooked pasta.
    I am the only one eating pasta at home. For this reason I weigh dry.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    There's another trick I use.. I cook a box at a time. I weigh it dry, then when its done I weigh it wet. I use the % of the wet weight in my serving, multiply by the dry weight to get my calories for that serving. I actually do this every time because we make pasta for the whole family (and we eat it almost every day).

    This might seem like too much math, but it works for me.
    So...

    Creamette 150 Spaghetti
    2 oz dry = 150 calories
    10 oz dry = 1 box
    150 cal * 5 servings = 750 calories / box
    # servings = 5

    supposing my 2:1 holds true,

    20 oz wet = 5 servings
    4 oz wet = 1/5 * 20 oz
    calories in 4 oz wet = 1/5 * 750
    calories in 4 oz wet = 150

    (adjust for correct measurements).
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    tomteboda wrote: »
    There's another trick I use.. I cook a box at a time. I weigh it dry, then when its done I weigh it wet. I use the % of the wet weight in my serving, multiply by the dry weight to get my calories for that serving. I actually do this every time because we make pasta for the whole family (and we eat it almost every day).

    This might seem like too much math, but it works for me.
    So...

    Creamette 150 Spaghetti
    2 oz dry = 150 calories
    10 oz dry = 1 box
    150 cal * 5 servings = 750 calories / box
    # servings = 5

    supposing my 2:1 holds true,

    20 oz wet = 5 servings
    4 oz wet = 1/5 * 20 oz
    calories in 4 oz wet = 1/5 * 750
    calories in 4 oz wet = 150

    (adjust for correct measurements).

    But there's never exactly the right amount of servings in a box.. so you're better off weighing it anyway.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    I said to adjust for the correct measurements. My example was how to deal with a family sized dish because boiling 2 or more pots of spaghetti for every meal is impractical for many of us
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