Steak

I don't eat beef steaks but add the amount of raw meat too.

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starrjulia8 wrote: »

You go into a restaurant and you order a 12 oz rib eye. When the server brings it to you it does not look like 12 oz cooked because some fat has cooked off.

So last night I had steak 11.5 oz precooked and 7.1 after cooking. Which do I log? (I cut off a 3rd of it and had the rest with a egg this morning)

Anyone have an opinion or fact?

Thanks,

Starr

You will find entries for raw steak and entries for cooked steak. Just make sure whichever you choose you use the correct corresponding weight.

There will be slight inaccuracies either way, depending on the composition of the piece of steak and how you cook it. If you weigh it raw you are probably logging some calories that melted off the steak as you cooked it. If you weigh it cooked, you are probably over-correcting for moisture loss. Just be as consistent as you can

When eating at a restaurant - I log the raw weight of what the cut is supposed to be. Using a cooked entry is going to be iffy (IMO) because how you cook it determines weight. Hubby & I could start with 2 identical steaks. His will weigh more after cooked than mine, because he goes for medium rare and I go for medium well. More cooking means more moisture cooked out and that change the weight.

I imagine some fat is lost in the cooking process, but for a cut of steak I don't think it would be much as I tend to go for leaner cuts of meat anyhow.