meat

jakejacobsen
jakejacobsen Posts: 584 Member
edited October 4 in Food and Nutrition
Ok I have been just entering my chicken by piece ect, or meat cooked. I know meat cooks down so is this accurate? Tomorrow I plan on having a T-bone steak, do I use the oz off the package? I plan on trimming the fat off and I don't plan on eating the bone so do I have to count it or should i just trim off what I plan on eating and weigh that. I am not taking it off the bone prior to cooking.

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  • sunshinesher01
    sunshinesher01 Posts: 82 Member
    You should weigh your steak after it is cooked and cut up.... You want to log the weight of the meat that you are actually going to consume. Does that help?
  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
    I always weigh everything raw. After you are done eating weigh the bone then subtract it from the first one
  • Shelby814
    Shelby814 Posts: 273 Member
    I would cook it, cut it off the bone & then weigh it.
  • SarahBeeMe
    SarahBeeMe Posts: 91 Member
    I usually prepare it however I'm having it (ie trim it, chop it up etc) then weigh it before I cook it :)
  • rv40
    rv40 Posts: 99 Member
    Cut off what you are eating and measure it raw....thats how it's supposed to be.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    most often, meat is intended to be weighed RAW. For example, a "quarter pounder" is 4 oz of beef BEFORE cooking, the patty weighs less after but you'd still log it as"4 oz raw".

    I would weigh the whole steak in ounces raw...(say it's 12 oz for example) then cook it, then take out the bone and weigh it (say it's 2 ounces)...in this scenario, the rest of the meat was 10 oz when it was raw. Say you eat half of it...you should log "5oz raw".
  • adross3
    adross3 Posts: 606 Member
    Thank you. I always wondered about that. But if fat is cooked off and depending on how you cood it rare to well done, the amount of fate will be gone. What's the rule for that.
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