Weighing food - oz vs g

Grams!

Grams get you down to smaller increments, so they're more accurate.

Grams is more accurate

My scale goes to the hundredth of an ounce. Therefore, ounces are actually more a more sensitive measure for me, since a hundredth of an ounce is less than a gram.

My scale weighs ounces so I have to convert to grams when I list my protein, the question is there any way to change my grams to ounces on the food chart?

need2belean wrote: »

GRAMS!!! It's more precise. 28 grams = 1oz but if your scale is only in oz, you could really be weighing anything from 29grams to 30 something.

Not my scale. 100% of the time when it says "1.00" ounces, when I then switch to grams is says "28".

Rob, your scales are the exception. I do all my recipes for children's birthday, and Christmas cakes and things in ounces, I have most of them down to memory.

Which is bigger 14g or half an ounce. To me half an ounce seems small, even stingy, where as I could kid myself 14g is greater.

Most scales are more accurate than the balance ones I grew up with. It came down to judging the pans as level not one side right down. Best wishes to someone using balances, your eyes must be better than mine.

(actually, I think my scales would to, if I did not have to turn it upside down to change the values, no that the ones in the bathroom, (giggle at thought of food everywhere) still think grams give me a helpful elusion)

Nutrition labels in the US give the equivalents to volumetric measure in grams. For example, a serving of Fiber One cereal is listed as "1/2 cup (30g)." I don't bother to dirty a measuring cup for cereal. I just put the bowl on the scale, tare to zero, and pour in 30 grams worth. If I want 1/4 a cup of milk on that cereal, and milk is mostly water, 56 (or 2 x 28) grams of milk is about a quarter cup. Again, no need to get out a measuring cup. I switch back and forth depending on what is easier.

When I add a handful of raisins to my bowl of cereal, I try to come close to 1 ounce but my handfuls aren't that reliable. I let the scale tell me how many grams of raisins I've thrown in and then use a fraction of the 100 gram raisins listing as the number of servings. So, if I grabbed 34 grams of raisins, I just list my servings number as .34 of the 100 gram listing.

Let's say I'm hungry for yogurt at the end of the day and I have 89 calories left. I can use my calculator online to figure out how much yogurt will stay under that 89 calories. My favorite yogurt is 280 calories for 227 grams. I divide 89 by 280 -- that gives me what portion of a serving is 89 calories. I then multiply that by how much a serving weighs and I find that 89/280 x 227 = approx. 72 grams. So, I can measure a 72 gram serving of yogurt into a bowl on the scale and BINGO, I have 89 calories of yogurt.

I like to do my meat in ounces and most other things in grams. (My meat servings per meal are usually 8+ oz, so I just can't be bothered dealing with grams there).

rebeccachobat wrote: »

I go by the unit of measurement on the serving size. If it tells me a serving is 4 oz, I weigh out 4 oz, if it says a serving is 28 grams, I weigh 28 grams

Same.