How to Measure Food on a Weighing Scale
If you’ve recently started tracking calories, you might be wondering how to measure your food correctly. How much rice is 100 grams? Should you weigh chicken before or after cooking? And what do you do with the weight of the bowl? Don’t worry. Using a kitchen weighing scale is pretty simple once you know a few basics. 1. How to Weigh Food Using a Kitchen Scale Follow these simple steps: For example: If your breakfast includes 50 grams of oats, place your bowl on the scale, press TARE, and add oats until the display reads 50 g. That’s it! You don’t need to subtract the bowl’s weight or do any complicated calculations. Just remember that the scale measures weight, not calories. You will need the food’s nutritional information to calculate its calories and protein.