Can cooked food ever increase in calories from its raw ingredients?

[Tom Kagan]

Still, by my math you aren't losing seven pounds.

That's because you don't know how to do math.

At 6oz per serving, 7 1/2 lbs of lean porterhouse equals a little less than 20 servings.


This thread delivers yet again.

[Kickapoo]

Ah, well, that will do it. Why I was mentally equating 1 pound to a serving will ever elude me.

It would also explain my recent weight gain.

[FriendlyFire]

A raw steak might cost your body 400 calories to break down.

Pretty sure it was an example to demonstrate the concept, not real numbers. While they may not be negative calorie foods, you can increase your net calorie intake by cooking.

[Tom Kagan]

Pretty sure it was an example to demonstrate the concept, not real numbers. While they may not be negative calorie foods, you can increase your net calorie intake by cooking.

Conceptually, if you put a hat and scarf on a snowman, it will last longer in hell.

[Res Judicata]

By the way, the concept that you guys are now discussing is called the thermic effect of food. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermic_effect_of_food

[W. Rabbit]

By the way, the concept that you guys are now discussing is called the thermic effect of food. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermic_effect_of_food

Thanks that's what I was looking for the other day...

A common number used to estimate the magnitude of the thermic effect of food is about 10% of the caloric intake of a given time period

[jnp]

Pretty sure it was an example to demonstrate the concept, not real numbers. While they may not be negative calorie foods, you can increase your net calorie intake by cooking.

Yes it was, and he knows that.

Conceptually, if you put a hat and scarf on a snowman, it will last longer in hell.

Pot stirrer.