Comments on: Ask Roni Weighing Food

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:40:38 +0000

Roni, can you do a video on how to use a digital food scale? The more I watch your videos the more I think I want a scale. But how do you know how many grams are in everything? I watched you & Ryan make the chocolate oatmeal cookies & I keep thinking about the scale…I would love to know more about weighing food!!! Keep up the good work, your recipes are all wonderful & you are an inspiration!

By: Irene

Irene — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:59:32 +0000

When making a recipe, I weight everything out in its raw form and find the calories. Then I add up the calories for all the raw ingredients. Once the dish is cooked, I weight out the WHOLE dish and calculate how many grams it is (or ounces). Then I divide the calories for the ingredients that went into the dish by how much it made in its cooked form. Then, I calculate calories for 100 or 200 grams of that dish. I think as long as you are consistent, that’s all that matters.

Irene

By: karen

karen — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:49:01 +0000

i am glad this question has come up. I was wondering too is it weighed raw? or cooked?
But after reading the postings i guess it depends on the recipe. Or like a whole chicken has to be weighed after.
( the beer butt are excelent but i use soda pop)
Thanks again for the good web site with all the helps on our journey to control our weight and be healthy.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:19:38 +0000

If I am making a recipe I use NI for raw meat. However if I am making a recipe that calls for cooked chicken and I am starting with leftover cooked chicken I use the NI for cooked. I weigh my pasta uncooked.

By: Roni

Roni — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:03:56 +0000

I measure it pre-cooking. It’ easier for me.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:39:07 +0000

So you guys all measure your whole grain pasta pre or post-cooked?

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:33:41 +0000

Depends what it is. If I am making a recipe than I weigh things raw. If I am eating something like chicken from a whole roasted then I weigh it cooked.

By: MizFit

MizFit — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:10:05 +0000

I love nutrition data!
so much great info there.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:16:15 +0000

I usually weigh meat raw (though not always!); but usually weigh pasta & rice once it’s been cooked, since I rarely cook one portion at a time.

By: Laura Brandon

Laura Brandon — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:09:16 +0000

I measure everything raw too, especially meats. i just feel more comfortable that way.

By: Christie

Christie — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:26:57 +0000

Usually the recipe will tell you. If it does not tell you then I would look at the instructions. For example, ground turkey. I have a recipe for BBQ Turkey Joes (sloppy joes). It calls for 1 pound of ground turkey. Then in the instructions, it tells you to brown turkey in a nonstick skillet so I would say that this recipe wants you to use 1 pound of raw meat.

If all else fails, I just weigh it pre-cooked — it’s less food that way. Food shrinks when you cook it so you would have to add more cooked food to get the same volume of non-cooked food.