Measuring meat?

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jeepwidow01
jeepwidow01 Posts: 173
in Food and Nutrition
When you measure your meat, do you do it before or after you cook it? I have noticed that it can lose up to an oz. in weight after it has been cooked.

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  • elizabethblake
    elizabethblake Posts: 384 Member
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    I weigh it after it's cooked.

    eta: just read the responses and I guess I'll change!
  • garysgirl719
    garysgirl719 Posts: 235 Member
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    Calories are the before cooking weight.
  • frostiegurl
    frostiegurl Posts: 708 Member
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    For accurate calorie counts according to most entries on here and any nutritional information found on the packaging itself, it's best to weigh it prior to cooking.
  • Elleinnz
    Elleinnz Posts: 1,661 Member
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    I weigh mine raw....
  • Cytherea
    Cytherea Posts: 515 Member
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    Weigh it raw, and then cook it. Unless the entry specifically says "cooked" it is giving you the nutritional info for the raw weight.
  • Sasha_Bear
    Sasha_Bear Posts: 625 Member
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    I weigh mine raw as well.
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
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    Before it's cooked. The calories after cooking are the same you just cooked out the moisture. So 4 oz may be 3 oz after cooking but the calories are still the same as the 4 oz you began with.
  • Cytherea
    Cytherea Posts: 515 Member
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    Before it's cooked. The calories after cooking are the same you just cooked out the moisture. So 4 oz may be 3 oz after cooking but the calories are still the same as the 4 oz you began with.

    That's right, but if you were to weigh it afterwards and record that, you wouldn't be recording enough calories.

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