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How would you track this recipe?

Nedgyx
Nedgyx Posts: 16 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnkF1_vHV0

There are a lot of things I just have no idea how you'd even roughly track in this kind of recipe.
Mostly I'm stuck on how you'd track the chicken marinade and the oil that is used to coat the chicken. I guess you could weigh the chicken then put it in the marinade then weigh it after and that difference would be the marinade. However for the oil I can't figure out a way to track it accurately because if you weigh it before and then after you can't just add the difference because chicken shrinks when it cooks. How would you go about tracking this entire recipe to the best of your abilities?

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  • PloddingTurtle
    PloddingTurtle Posts: 284 Member
    edited May 2018
    The difference between simple flouring and frying vs battering and deep frying is close to 90-100 calories, all of it from absorbed fat. You can estimate an extra 10 grams of fat at 9 cal/gram or 90 calories. This is not exact, you understand, because differences in cooking oil temperature, length of cooking time, thickness of batter, total surface area of the food being fried will alter the actual number. But adding an extra 100 calories and 10 g fat to each serving to account for deep frying is a good starting point. source: https://calorie-data.com/foods/show/Chicken

    How to calculate the marinade: I would run the recipe through the recipe builder, let the program tell me the total calorie count for the entire recipe, then weigh/measure the result and add that to the recipe builder so it could calculate the calories per smaller unit of measure (per Tbsp or per gram, etc). If the marinade recipe makes 1 cup of marinade and works out to 500 calories for the entire recipe, then 1/8 cup (or 2 Tablespoons) is 500/8 for 62.5 calories for 2 Tbsp.

  • Nedgyx
    Nedgyx Posts: 16 Member
    Ok, thanks. I'll look into that and yea I was only really looking for estimates because I'll only be eating things like this (and very occasionally at that) when I'm bulking where the calories aren't as precious. It's just nice to know things like this can be worked into counting calories. Awesome.
  • VUA21
    VUA21 Posts: 2,072 Member
    Look up the calorie difference between known breaded & fried products and grilled. (for chicken, KFC would work). The use that differece for your own. I know it's not 100%, but it's the easiest way I can think of for various sizes of batteries fried foods.
  • Nedgyx
    Nedgyx Posts: 16 Member
    Cool I give it a shot!!
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