Weighing food frozen or cooked?

[CCitny]

This is probably a silly question but I genuinely don’t know.

when weighing food, what is accurate ? Weighing it cooked or frozen?

[pickledandpuzzled]

Raw or frozen should be the same.

Cooked is different - meat weighs less cooked as water has evaporated. Rice weighs more as it’s absorbed water.

The source of your information should specify which it is. If you are recording for yourself, just record what it is.

It’s never 100% accurate, don’t get too hung up!

[CCitny]

It’s frozen chicken goujons & I also want to weigh sweet potato fries - both frozen

[Aribaariba]

Is it for calories ? They should be on the packet if so ?

[KnickerlessParsons]

Did you freeze the chicken yourself? Shop bought frozen chicken will have a lot of water in it which will come out during cooking.

If it's decent chicken that you bought and froze, not so much.

[pickledandpuzzled]

If the packet doesn’t specify cooked or raw, google a similar product and compare it.

Tesco app has all the nutritional info. Look up a similar item and see whether the numbers match closest to raw or cooked.

[Zanatdy]

I wondered the same as I weighed 100g French fries. But is the calories given for 100g frozen? As they weighed less than 70 when cooked. I went with the frozen as that’s the higher amount

[soupfiend]

Whats the purpose of needing to know the weight?

If its for calories you need to know whats printed on the back and whether its the cooked or uncooked weight because when things lose their water in the oven obviously they weigh less than before

As an example, a raw chicken thigh of 100g (boneless and skinless) nearly always comes out as 60g of cooked chicken after going in the slow cooker, I cook up a batch every week and its never any different.

So I count 100g of raw chicken thigh, boneless and skinless for calorie purposes

[Sparrow7]

It's so annoying when they don't say on the packaging. I find quite often with frozen chips etc there is no indication whether the nutritional information is for frozen or cooked.

[Zanatdy]

@soupfiend

Whats the purpose of needing to know the weight?

If its for calories you need to know whats printed on the back and whether its the cooked or uncooked weight because when things lose their water in the oven obviously they weigh less than before

As an example, a raw chicken thigh of 100g (boneless and skinless) nearly always comes out as 60g of cooked chicken after going in the slow cooker, I cook up a batch every week and its never any different.

So I count 100g of raw chicken thigh, boneless and skinless for calorie purposes

So I could have more French fried I guess is what I’m saying if it’s 184 cals for 70ish gram (cooked weight) or 100g (frozen weight). I’m weighing out 100g frozen weight and adding 184 cals as that’s what it says on the packet for calories. But it doesn’t say it that’s frozen weight. I mean it’s not a huge amount of difference but I want to get it right

[soupfiend]

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305967155

Similar amounts, 172 cals for 100g cooked weight

130 100g frozen