Weighing Scrambled eggs before or after cooking?

ElMilagro1
ElMilagro1 Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hello from Paris France,

I am curious as I use a balance to weigh the food I eat. I noticed weighing them before cooking or after makes a great difference.

Scrambled eggs loose about ten grams. I pour a little water in so which ten grams did I loose?

Because even when I make scrambled eggs without water it still looses about ten grams.

I'd like to make a correct entry, this feels like I'd need to know molecules... lol deep nutrition.

Thanks for the help 😘

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  • CipherZero
    CipherZero Posts: 1,418 Member
    Neither one. USDA lookup has the calories for eggs and their cooking methods based on size. The size of an egg is a defined quantity.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    I eat eggs every day. I just add the egg itself in my diary, according to size, as the above poster suggested.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,944 Member
    I would weight them uncooked but peeled. Then weight the oil for cooking and everything else you add to them raw/cold.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    edited August 2019
    If being really nitpicky I break them in a bowl on the scale to get the weight (use the USDA entry for raw eggs).

    I can eyeball what an egg will be very well, however, so now am as likely to go with that. I use eggs from local farms that sell at my farmer's market, and they vary in size quite a bit. For sized eggs the USDA entries by size are good enough, but they likely would not be the same in France.

    Obviously also log any butter used for cooking and anything added to the eggs if you do that.
  • todds404
    todds404 Posts: 16 Member
    It actually doesn't matter whether you weight them before or after. What really matters is you pick one and then do that consistently.
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,187 Member
    I don't weigh eggs. I just enter the size, usually large, and continue with my happy life. if I am I using them for a recipe, then I weigh and log the other ingredients as well.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,944 Member
    Ok, put bowl/pan on scale, tare scale, crack open egg, log weight.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    Oh, well you made me think of how you peel a hard boiled egg. Thought I was missing out on something. ☺
  • ElMilagro1
    ElMilagro1 Posts: 2 Member
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.

    😂 You must be really judgmental.

    I'm doing my best, thank you all for your answers. I need to do some searching!

    So a fried egg doesn't need to be weighed before cooking. It is just a matter of size...

    I'll see if we have similarities in sizes.
  • nighthawk584
    nighthawk584 Posts: 2,023 Member
    edited August 2019
    On eggs, I just go with the standard nutritional info on the carton. I do weigh my butter or oil though. 1 large egg is typically around 70 calories
  • nighthawk584
    nighthawk584 Posts: 2,023 Member
    ElMilagro1 wrote: »
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.

    😂 You must be really judgmental.

    I'm doing my best, thank you all for your answers. I need to do some searching!

    So a fried egg doesn't need to be weighed before cooking. It is just a matter of size...

    I'll see if we have similarities in sizes.

    Some people can be a little "snarky" at times on this forum.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    ElMilagro1 wrote: »
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.

    😂 You must be really judgmental.

    I'm doing my best, thank you all for your answers. I need to do some searching!

    So a fried egg doesn't need to be weighed before cooking. It is just a matter of size...

    I'll see if we have similarities in sizes.

    You could also weigh them for a couple of weeks and then average the highest 5 or so weights and use that until you felt the need to check it again (change brands, etc)

    I don't weigh eggs. I buy the extra large and log the jumbo which I think covers me. The other reason is I don't know if the calories per gram is evenly scalable. If the difference between the entry and my egg is mostly egg white it wouldn't add any significant calories. If I get a 2 yolk egg I log it as 2 smaller eggs.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.

    I got into the habit of weighing eggs when I was buying them at farm stands and the sizes were obviously different.

    Then I started weighing supermarket eggs and learned there can be a lot of variety within a package of those as well.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    If I get a double yolker, I do a happy dance! 😎
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    so since water is a zero calorie addition - the calories between a raw egg and a cooked egg don't differ - i would weigh raw and just use that for consistency - but if you are say eating eggs in a restaurant, give it your best guess
  • shunggie
    shunggie Posts: 1,036 Member
    You are only eating what's cooked, so weigh the cooked egg. I log them by size because it's close enough for me.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.

    When you have your own hens you can end up with quite a range.
  • HereToLose50
    HereToLose50 Posts: 154 Member
    Egg sizes seem to be only a few calories difference as they get bigger. I pretty much always log for extra large eggs. I rarely buy jumbo but an occasional huge egg gets mixed in and sometimes smaller ones too. I also add more calories when I get double yolk eggs.
  • nighthawk584
    nighthawk584 Posts: 2,023 Member
    LyndaBSS wrote: »
    If I get a double yolker, I do a happy dance! 😎

    I eat a lot of eggs and never have gotten one, is it like finding 4 leaf clover?
  • HereToLose50
    HereToLose50 Posts: 154 Member
    nighthawk584 wrote: »
    LyndaBSS wrote: »
    If I get a double yolker, I do a happy dance! 😎

    I eat a lot of eggs and never have gotten one, is it like finding 4 leaf clover?

    Usually when I get a double yolk, most or all that carton of eggs will be double yolks. Doesn't happen often and we eat tons of eggs here.
  • JeBeBu
    JeBeBu Posts: 258 Member
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    I've never weighed an egg. That's way too OCD 4me.

    When you have your own hens you can end up with quite a range.

    True that! I have bantam hens, standard layers and ducks....blue shells, brown shells, green shells....no consistency, but delicious!!
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,944 Member
    LyndaBSS wrote: »
    Oh, well you made me think of how you peel a hard boiled egg. Thought I was missing out on something. ☺

    Yeah, I wasn't quite there when I wrote above. Am on some nasty medication at the moment. Weaning them off from tomorrow. Normal life will resume in hopefully a week :D
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    nighthawk584 wrote: »
    LyndaBSS wrote: »
    If I get a double yolker, I do a happy dance! 😎

    I eat a lot of eggs and never have gotten one, is it like finding 4 leaf clover?

    I dont think Ive ever had one in shop bought eggs either.

    When i used to have my own chooks, we got a double yolker relatively often - probably about once a month or so.

  • hannamarie0098
    hannamarie0098 Posts: 85 Member
    Does anyone know the approximate weight range for differently sized eggs? We have our own hens and would be good to know roughly what size their eggs are.
  • MoxyLeigh
    MoxyLeigh Posts: 433 Member
    hannamarie0098 wrote: »
    Does anyone know the approximate weight range for differently sized eggs? We have our own hens and would be good to know roughly what size their eggs are.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_egg_sizes

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