[Sca-cooks] Goat meat

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 27 Jun 2002, at 22:28, Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:

> Based on all the goat I've cooked and eaten, and considering that my
> father raises goats for a living...  I would venture to say that you
> get about 45% of meat compared the the bone-in weight of your chunk of
> meat.

That's much lower than Phlip's estimate.  Are you two calculating
differently?

> Also, I've found that goat, unlike sheep, doesn't lend itself all that
> well to anything less than medium well done.

Really?  One website I was reading said that goat will dry out if
overcooked.
Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net