Tips for Weighing Prepared Food
The hardest thing for me to remember when making a recipe is to weigh the pot, pan, bowl or dish that the finished product will be in BEFORE I start cooking. It can be such an inconvenience to pour the food into a separate container or in the case of a baked casserole pretty much impossible without ruining the food. So what I decided to do is extremely useful when calculating points. I weighed the ones I use frequently in both ounces and grams and made a chart that I taped to the inside of one of my kitchen cabinet doors. I started with all my Instant Pot and Crockpot liners but left plenty of space to write in more.
The insides of all my cabinets are covered with a multitude of helpful charts and directions for common ingredients or recipes. This is a great time saver because you don't have to stop what you're doing to look in a cookbook or even to Google it!
Here's a copy of the chart I use. The first page is my table and measurements that you can use as a layout guideline and the second page is completely blank. These were made with OpenOffice but should be completely compatible with Microsoft Word.
The hardest thing for me to remember when making a recipe is to weigh the pot, pan, bowl or dish that the finished product will be in BEFORE I start cooking. It can be such an inconvenience to pour the food into a separate container or in the case of a baked casserole pretty much impossible without ruining the food. So what I decided to do is extremely useful when calculating points. I weighed the ones I use frequently in both ounces and grams and made a chart that I taped to the inside of one of my kitchen cabinet doors. I started with all my Instant Pot and Crockpot liners but left plenty of space to write in more.
The insides of all my cabinets are covered with a multitude of helpful charts and directions for common ingredients or recipes. This is a great time saver because you don't have to stop what you're doing to look in a cookbook or even to Google it!
Here's a copy of the chart I use. The first page is my table and measurements that you can use as a layout guideline and the second page is completely blank. These were made with OpenOffice but should be completely compatible with Microsoft Word.
| Container Weights Chart |
