Cooked meat/Raw meat ratio

Hoss

I think I saw a posting on here that showed a formula for figuring out how many lbs. of raw Butts a person needed to cook to end up with a certain number of COOKED servings.Help anyone??? :unsure:

civil eggineer

Others will chime in but my experience puts it around 60% product compared to bone-in raw butt weight. Also plan on 1/4 lb per person if salads are available and 1/3 lb if not.

Hoss

Thanks,that's a help.

fishlessman

2.4 servings per pound of uncooked butt. trick is to know your crowd and how many servings each will eat

Morro Bay Rich

Hoss is quite close. I got a 57% yield from 2 butts.

You just can't take 26 years in a biochemistry lab out of an old horse. :laugh:

Morro Bay Rich

Sorry, I meant "civil eggineer is quite close".

Hoss

Thanks guys!

Grandpas Grub

Hoss,

Divide the the number of guests by 2.4. There is also an excel spread sheet floating around to plan this.

Celtic Wolf has a nice write up also which comes out pretty close to the 2.4 formula above.

http://www.celticspiritbbq.com/methods/pulledpork.html

GG

Hoss

Thanks,GG!