Weight of food before or after cooking?

[SemperFi 0321]

Do you use the weight of your meat before or after cooking? The reason I ask is because when I cook ground beef, even though I use a pound before cooking, what I end up with is like 13-14 ozs. So what do I count? The packaging says that 4 ozs is a serving size, and that there are 4 servings in the package, so that means they count it before cooking........is that right? I just want to make sure that I am actually getting all the calories/protein that I think I am.

Semper Fi

 

[Frosty]

Yes, count before cooking.

Short answer - lean meats don't really lose any calories when cooked as only water cooks off.

Fatty foods, however, tend to have water AND fat cook off of them. This WILL reduce the calorie content (example, 1 piece of raw bacon was WAY more calories than 1 piece of cooked bacon).

http://steroidology.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46505

 

[SemperFi 0321]

Thanks frosty.......guess I should have looked a little more before asking.

 

[Eatbig]

I always thought you weigh your food prior to cooking it (?