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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 14:00:35 GMT
Do any of you measure in grams instead of ounces?Do you find it more accurate measuring in grams if you do?I'm confused with the grams in a serving of different foods.I haven't noticed if it list the servings in grams on the NI of foods I buy.
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Post by zazzles on Apr 9, 2017 14:12:14 GMT
I weight foods in grams most of the time. It is more accurate. 28.35 grams equals 1 ounce. Scales generally weigh in ounces and tenths, which means the smallest weight a scale shows in ounces is 1/10th which is 2.835 grams.
I find weighing in grams useful when I want to get a precise serving. For example, 1 cup of Greek yogurt is 227 grams; I don't have to dirty a measuring cup to try to get one cup —I just add/subtract to/from a bowl until I get 227 grams.
It is also useful to ensure that the ingredients going into a recipe are accurate. In fact, there are a couple of scales that have iPad apps that you can put a recipe into and then the app guides you through adding the ingredients precisely to assemble the recipe in one or more bowls. PerfectBake is the one I think is the best, and that scale can weigh in ounces down to 1/1000th of an ounce!
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Post by itsrad on Apr 9, 2017 15:13:37 GMT
Most food will list a serving by gram weight on the label. So if a serving of something is 28 grams, I use the gram setting on the scale. As zazzles points out, it is more accurate.
My DH loves to bake, and he has converted most of his recipes to use gram weight for the accuracy. He puts the mixing bowl on the scale, tares it, and adds the ingredients.
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Post by ksbruns on Apr 9, 2017 19:19:02 GMT
I have used grams ever since, back in the day when we pointed fruit, I discovered I could get a few more grapes in grams! Because that's just the kind of 🐷 I have always been! Grams are so much more accurate than ounces, and most items in the database (at least that I use) offer them in the drop-down.
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Post by 100gone on Apr 9, 2017 20:10:23 GMT
I weigh a lot of things in grams, like peanut butter, yogurt, shredded cheese, nuts.
Of course, some days I have to laugh at myself because I'll carefully measure out my 12 grams of peanut butter at breakfast and then later in the day eat handfuls of chips or something without measuring a thing!
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Post by ladymajky on Apr 9, 2017 20:19:51 GMT
Weighing Kashi or granola in grams is precise enough that I can get just under the amount that registers as 1 point.
I have learned to love the tare function on my scales. I weigh my yogurt in grams, tare it out; add the fruit in grams, tare it out; add the Kashi or granola in grams and VOILA: a yogurt and fruit parfait for only the points in the yogurt. And it gets me a GHG dairy and a GHG fruit.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 20:32:26 GMT
Thanks for all the responses everyone.
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Post by finreporter on Apr 10, 2017 7:02:38 GMT
i weigh maybe one of my usual foods in grams, but everything else i just go with ounces. i figure it's good enough that i'm at least weighing my food to begin with so it doesn't seem necessary to me to switch it to the gram measurement. even though it's not like it takes more effort of course.
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Post by cyndee on Apr 10, 2017 14:46:36 GMT
Most of the recipes from my European mother-in-law are in grams, so I've gotten quite used to it. For baking, especially, it is the most accurate. There would be no way I could have ever weighed my old pet parrot in ounces. He was so small. He was only about 30 grams, which would have been 1.05922 ounces. Yes, that looks like just 1 ounce, but his weight varying by even as little as 2 grams was significant. In ounces a 2 gram difference looks like zero difference.
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Post by azcristi on Apr 10, 2017 14:58:48 GMT
I do measure in grams - especially on packaged foods that say "Serving size = 1 cup or 43 grams."
It's more accurate to measure weight vs measuring cup.
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Post by wwlurker on Apr 11, 2017 12:55:19 GMT
I almost always use grams, but I'm Canadian, so we use the metric system anyway. I only use ounces when the recipe or package nutritional information uses them.
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Post by wildcat on Apr 12, 2017 20:53:53 GMT
I almost always use grams for foods that come with a label because NI tends to be in grams. For produce and meat I tend to just use ounces.
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Post by Texans136 (Luann) on Apr 18, 2017 23:16:56 GMT
I'm like some of you here. I might weigh tortilla chips in ounces to get my serving, but I might get a chip or two more if I use grams! So if I switch my serving from ounces to grams, and I get a bit more with grams, you betcha I'm taking the gram version.
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