If I am trying to determine calories for a baked good I made, can I just enter all of the ingrediants separately, or does baking alter caloric info?

I've wondered that myself, msbelle--if I put in a cup of flour and a cup of sugar and a stick of butter, divided by the number of cookies it makes, is that a calorie count? Or does the baking magically make them different? (I mean, I suppose it *could*, calories are energy, baking is heat...right?)

Another hivemind question: Does anyone know ergonomically speaking, where your monitor should be relative to your eye level? My eye doctor told me to make sure my monitor was below eye level, so I moved it. I can tell that's going to help a lot vision wise, but now I feel like looking down at the monitor is going to hurt my neck.

(I mean, I suppose it *could*, calories are energy, baking is heat...right?)

but, but, -- calories can be neither created or destroyed right? It would have to convert into something? Or does that theory only apply to matter?

calories can be neither created or destroyed right?

Well, they're a measurement of energy. So if you burn up the cookie (which, isn't that how they measure calories?), you're measuring how much energy it takes, or something? I dunno. It's been a LOOOOONG time since college science classes....

I figure it probably does work out the whole flour plus sugar plus butter equals total calories. But I want reassurance!

Calories are a measure of potential energy, so they could theoretically be released as heat during the baking process. But I doubt the difference is enough to matter nutritionally.

But when baking, you apply heat, right?

eh, what do I know?

Perkins, the very top of the screen on your monitor should be at eye level.

I'm guessing it doesn't make much difference.

Thanks Tamara!

ok, I added all the ingrediants in and then factored 1/16th of the measurement for each serving. counting calories is going to test some rarely used math.