How do you do your pasta measurements – such as in your latest video, how much is 2 ounces? Is that 1/4 cup?
-Erin
Hi Erin!
That’s a good question. Sometimes I forget I’m a bit of a scale freak!
I always weight my pasta dry on my digital scale.
I hope that helps!
-Roni
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I’m delurking now – been keeping up w/your blogs for a couple months now. I am a scale freak too, but usually with stuff that has already been cooked or doesn’t need to be cooked (e.g., cooked meat in ounces, cheese in ounces, etc.)
For pasta, I just eyeball it before cooking, & then measure out my portion. 1/2 cup = 2 points, 1 cup = 4 pounts, etc. My hubby eats the rest!
I’m like Shelley I eyeball it and then take what I want and the hubby eats what he wants and packs the rest for lunch!
I’m a scale freak too. I can’t answer cup wise but I’ve noticed that when pasta is cooked it is almost exactly twice the weight.
Barillaus has a table for all pasta’s.
I saved the plastic top off a condiment bottle that matched a serving size. I fist the pasta, place the end in the cap to confirm the measure. Sometimes, I’ll do the entire box and put small rubberbands around a serving size, so in the future I just have to grab. It helps when you are really tired and hungry. :-)
Barillaus – What a FABULOUS idea! I love the rubber bands!
I have a handy dandy pasta measurer thingie that I got at Linens N Things for the stringy pastas and for other kinds (spiral, elbow, etc.) I measure according to the serving size. If it says 3/4C then I measure 3/4 dry and then measure 3/4 cooked to serve.
Hello! I’m coming out of lurkdom to say that I love your site and I too am a scale freak. It actually has a permanent spot on my counter. I’m so bad that I’ll make a recipe and actually weigh the entire completed recipe and divide the grams by the number of servings and then weigh my serving. Not sure that makes sense. Like if I make spaghetti, I’ll weigh the whole recipe so if it comes out to 1000 grams then I divide that by 4 servings and know that 1 serving is 250 grams. So then I put my plate on the scale and measure out 250 grams of spaghetti. I think I need to go to food scales anonymous! :-)
i never realized i was a “topic” on your site until i started browsing – wow! thanks, haha!
LOL Did I forget to email you?!? SO SORRY! I try to email when I answer a question.
my scales have broken and i really need to know how many cupfulls of dried pasta is equal to 40g of dried pasta?
Unfortunately it depends on the type of pasta. Does this help? link to barillaus.com
This may be a dumb questions, but how do you know how many servings are in a finished meal so you know how to divide properly?
Hi Heather! This isn’t stupid at all! To be honest… I decide once the meal is done and what I feel is a good size portion for the cals. So I guess my short answer is I don’t know.. I just decide! :)
I can’t get your recipes on my ziplist. it only has old ones I have from another website but it says its on there. do you know what I can do?
Melissa – I’m not sure! Give me an example of a recipe you are trying to add and I’ll see if I can trouble shoot.