Cooked meat/Raw meat ratio

Hoss · March 2009

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 · March 2009

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 · March 2009

Thanks,that's a help.

fishlessman · March 2009

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

Morro Bay Rich · March 2009

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 · March 2009

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

Hoss · March 2009

Thanks guys!

Grandpas Grub · March 2009

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 · March 2009

Thanks,GG!

Cooked meat/Raw meat ratio

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