I know chicken breast shrinks cooked vs raw, does cutting it up change the measurement? I cut up like 10 lbs of raw chicken and just batch cook it up, so I don’t weight it out. So then 182 g cooked, cut-up chicken would be about 250 g of raw chicken (~72-75%). Thus I track it as 250 g raw chicken for macros?
Yep, go by the raw uncooked weight for most foods (including chicken) unless directed otherwise. Cutting it up shouldn’t change the water loss (and subsequent shrinking) by much, if at all.
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Is this more consistent than going for whatever Cronometer or similar has available for “cooked” and weighing accordingly, or is that likely an unnecessary level of detail for someone not competing in a sport requiring nutritional precision (TWOUD)? Weighing raw can be a pain when cooking for a family vs individually.
I don’t know much about Chronometer, but I do know cooked weights can vary wildly. I think if you’re going to track macros via weighing and measuring food, it’s far more accurate to do so with raw weights.
One quick note on “tracking macros”. I don’t think people in sport need to track macros, nor do I think this is a strategy that would work widely. Some people obviously prefer it and that’s fine, but it’s not magic. I know you weren’t insinuating that it’s magic, but I just wanted to share.