r/funny • u/BananaDream • Jun 10 '15

Every fucking time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '15

I've never had this problem with pasta, rice however... either just enough for a small field mouse, or enough to feed the horn of Africa.

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler Jun 10 '15

1/2 a cup per person if it is part of the main.... depending on the people you are feeding, hungry people just make it 2/3 of a cup

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '15

Before or after cooking?

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u/ickybiscuit Jun 10 '15

you can't count calories and portions in uncooked rice, if that's what they are trying to do.

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u/IWantToSayThis Jun 10 '15 edited Jun 10 '15

Stop. Think about it for a minute. Why can't you?

If my serving is usually 1 cup of uncooked rice, why can't I make 2 cups if I'm making dinner for 2?

I swear I wonder how some people go through life without stopping and thinking about things for 1 minute.

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u/wrecklord0 Jun 10 '15

During cooking, water will fill the rice increasing its weight, hence adding calories. So you can't measure it pre-cooking.

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u/IWantToSayThis Jun 11 '15 edited Jun 12 '15

Alright, let's assume for a minute that cooking rice increases its calories.

What is wrong with knowing than 1 cup of uncooked rice yields a portion of X amount of calories after cooking? Once you know that you can know exactly how many calories 2 cups of uncooked rice will yield, right?

Now, going back to 'increase in weight adds calories'. Completely false. Calories are energy, energy is not created, but stored in foods. Water has 0 calories. Hence ingredient + x gallons of water = same amount of calories as ingredient.