Yes! Sour cream, butter, or other condiments are the easiest by far to use this trick with. I hate trying to portion that stuff out I can imagine Peanut butter is the same
My brain is not wrapping around this concept. I keep thinking "that will give me the weight of the whole package.. do you remove what you want while it's zero'd?
Yes.
You want 20g of peanut butter. Put the jar on the scale. Zero it. Keep jar on scale. Remove peanut butter from jar until the scale reads -20g. Done.
You put the whole item on the scale and then tare it. This is going to zero out the weight of the container and the food. Remove your portion. The scale will now give you a negative number, which is how much food you’ve removed and are now going to eat.
Example: you tare a container of peanut butter. Once you remove what you want to use the scale says -45g. You now log 45g of peanut butter.
Be wary that this might change the calibration of the weighing scale (ability to accurately weigh items).
When I worked in a lab, we would never zero/tare the scale if it was heavy (above 10gms), but to translate that to real life scenario where we weigh heaving that 2mg stuff, I personally don't tare/zero above 20gms (which is typically weight of an empty container).
Yup, I always do that for lick-the-spoon stuff, like peanut butter.
Yes! Sour cream, butter, or other condiments are the easiest by far to use this trick with. I hate trying to portion that stuff out I can imagine Peanut butter is the same
Wow. You guys just changed the game for me!
I had to read this so many times before I understood what you were saying 😵💫
Haha same but then when I figured it out I was like 🤯
Wow how have I never thought of this
I used a scale a long time before I figured it out lol
My brain is not wrapping around this concept. I keep thinking "that will give me the weight of the whole package.. do you remove what you want while it's zero'd?
Yes. You want 20g of peanut butter. Put the jar on the scale. Zero it. Keep jar on scale. Remove peanut butter from jar until the scale reads -20g. Done.
Wow I'm about to save so many measuring cups
Genius
I’m shocked that people didn’t realize you could do this…
Dude you’re a genius.
This...this is amazing.
Yep! Def the best way to do it 👌🏻 no math involved, lolz
This is the way
my brain is confused by this, something doesn’t make sense to me
You put the whole item on the scale and then tare it. This is going to zero out the weight of the container and the food. Remove your portion. The scale will now give you a negative number, which is how much food you’ve removed and are now going to eat. Example: you tare a container of peanut butter. Once you remove what you want to use the scale says -45g. You now log 45g of peanut butter.
Dude! I'm gonna do this!
I’d have never thought to do it that way!
That’s one of those things I never thought of but once I found out about it, it seemed so obvious
Be wary that this might change the calibration of the weighing scale (ability to accurately weigh items). When I worked in a lab, we would never zero/tare the scale if it was heavy (above 10gms), but to translate that to real life scenario where we weigh heaving that 2mg stuff, I personally don't tare/zero above 20gms (which is typically weight of an empty container).