Cooking meat and protein levels

Discussion in 'Dieting / Supplement Discussion' started by dragon50, Aug 15, 2005.

  1. dragon50 Banned Banned

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    Does protein and calorie content depend on how long meat is cooked? For example, does well done steak have less protein and fewer calories than rare meat?
     
  2. i really dont know, but i would think cookin it longer would have less calories. i dont care i like mine still bloody
     
  3. Madmick Zugzwang Staff Member Senior Moderator

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    Depending on how you cook it, you'll cook out more of the fat, primarily.
     
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    So then say someone is counting fat/protein/carb/etc. every day. How would he be able to know how much fat he's getting in when he can't measure how much of the fat was cooked off? I never understood that.
     
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    I, too, have been wondering how you can determine something like that. Any input would be appreciated by many sherdoggers, I assume.
     
  6. Madmick Zugzwang Staff Member Senior Moderator

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    I put up a website, www.nutritiondata.com, a while back. Usually, caloric figures are given for meat raw, and for meat cooked, in ounce portions. If you want to know how many calories are in your meat, find the cut and calorie count cooked, then weigh the meat you cooked yourself, and calculate accordingly.
     

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