Which way to weigh food?

enabnitnab
enabnitnab Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
Do you weigh meat before or after cooking for this program. Or beef is 6oz before but 4 oz after cooking - which do I enter as? Thanks

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  • ACDodd
    ACDodd Posts: 129 Member
    I weigh things how I am going to eat them.
    I cook then weigh.
    Not sure that's the right way but it seems logical to me.
  • tess5036
    tess5036 Posts: 942 Member
    Weigh then cook unless it is specifically an entry for something already cooked
  • SabAteNine
    SabAteNine Posts: 1,867 Member
    There's entries in the MFP database for both cooked and uncooked products, so for the most part, it doesn't matter much.

    The only thing which I weigh uncooked is pasta, and if I am baking a mixed vegetable tray, I will usually weigh those raw as well, add them all and portion the outcome. All the rest go in the diary as I'm going to eat them.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    edited October 2018
    I find before is more accurate weighed raw and YES the loss in size is sad. I find the entries in MFP for raw is closer to accurate (or if you google online for weight) as how you cook it will impact weight (ex: how well done).
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