Weighing Food on a Scale?

Diet and Nutrition
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For those who have cut or weight their food Do you do it after you cook or before? I ask because when I cook chicken or steak it always weighs about 2-3 oz more raw then when cooked. which should I be following?

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[quote]-ETHAN- wrote:
For those who have cut or weight their food Do you do it after you cook or before? I ask because when I cook chicken or steak it always weighs about 2-3 oz more raw then when cooked. which should I be following?[/quote]

Are you Lance Armstrong?

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[quote]dhuge67 wrote:
-ETHAN- wrote:
For those who have cut or weight their food Do you do it after you cook or before? I ask because when I cook chicken or steak it always weighs about 2-3 oz more raw then when cooked. which should I be following?

Are you Lance Armstrong?[/quote]

whaaaaa?

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[quote]-ETHAN- wrote:
For those who have cut or weight their food Do you do it after you cook or before? I ask because when I cook chicken or steak it always weighs about 2-3 oz more raw then when cooked. which should I be following?[/quote]

usually before but would depend on the calorie count your using is it count cooked or none cooked??

Phill

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[quote]Phill wrote:
-ETHAN- wrote:
For those who have cut or weight their food Do you do it after you cook or before? I ask because when I cook chicken or steak it always weighs about 2-3 oz more raw then when cooked. which should I be following?

usually before but would depend on the calorie count your using is it count cooked or none cooked??

Phill

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I use the calorie count on the bag or package.

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http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=5720

you are looking for the file:

pcs19.exe

the database will have values for raw food and cooked (by method). way more info than any nutrition label.

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[quote]-ETHAN- wrote:
Phill wrote:
-ETHAN- wrote:
For those who have cut or weight their food Do you do it after you cook or before? I ask because when I cook chicken or steak it always weighs about 2-3 oz more raw then when cooked. which should I be following?

usually before but would depend on the calorie count your using is it count cooked or none cooked??

Phill

I use the calorie count on the bag or package.
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Then Like on a pack of meat its raw

Phill