Really Dumb Boiled Egg Calorie Question

Generally speaking, the weight of any item is the weight of what is consumed -- not anything thrown away.

So an egg wouldn't include the shell, an orange wouldn't include the peel, chicken wouldn't include the bone, etc.

STLBADGIRL wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

I'm just gonna say - I've never been that precise in my measurements and I've lost 70+ pounds and kept it off for a very long time. Some stuff just is too minor.

To me an egg is "egg -large." The end.

I agree.

Why do I have an overwhelming urge to go weigh this morning's egg shells, though?

Not sure if this helps, but I always pee, blow my nose, clean my ears and exhale before I get on the scale in the morning ...my wife just chuckles and rolls her eyes

I was just wondering this, too! The USDA database specifies it's for the edible portion only. I found a database entry that fits those calories and just use that.

amusedmonkey wrote: »

I just weigh it in shell. Interestingly, I find most of my eggs fall into the "extra large" category by weight. They look normal size to me. Turns out a medium size egg (44 grams) is not something I ever encountered and would be tiny in comparison. Could it be because I weigh them in shell? Now I'm curious how USDA defined that weight, with or without shell.

If you're talking about the small/medium/large/extra large/jumbo sizes that egg packagers put on their cartons, those are weights with the shell -- if they cracked them to weigh them without the shell, they couldn't sell them (at least not in the form that those regulated sizes are used for -- obviously they could freeze them or dry them or refrigerate the liquids and sell them to food manufacturers in bulk or package them in those forms for retail sales).

If you're talking about the weights shown for eggs of different sizes in the USDA nutrient database, those are weights for the edible part only. The weight for each size egg in the USDA nutrient database runs roughly 13% below the midpoint of the weight range for the regulated sizes for eggs sold at retail in cartons.

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

I just weigh it in shell. Interestingly, I find most of my eggs fall into the "extra large" category by weight. They look normal size to me. Turns out a medium size egg (44 grams) is not something I ever encountered and would be tiny in comparison. Could it be because I weigh them in shell? Now I'm curious how USDA defined that weight, with or without shell.

If you're talking about the small/medium/large/extra large/jumbo sizes that egg packagers put on their cartons, those are weights with the shell -- if they cracked them to weigh them without the shell, they couldn't sell them (at least not in the form that those regulated sizes are used for -- obviously they could freeze them or dry them or refrigerate the liquids and sell them to food manufacturers in bulk or package them in those forms for retail sales).

If you're talking about the weights shown for eggs of different sizes in the USDA nutrient database, those are weights for the edible part only. The weight for each size egg in the USDA nutrient database runs roughly 13% below the midpoint of the weight range for the regulated sizes for eggs sold at retail in cartons.

Yes, I meant size as defined in the USDA nutrient database by grams. This is interesting, though,