[Sca-cooks] Hog, etc roaster for sale, on line...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise:
>  > but it only cooks up to 100 lbs pigs...
>>  i think i want two... plus one for the chickens
>>  mind you, this is just for a medium feast...
>
>Hm....
>Can we talk about feast quantities now?
>
>2/3 to 3/4 of a pound meat per person TOTAL is plenty for a feast, at
>least where I come from...
>
>But how much wastage is there on a 100 lb pig?

_VERY ROUGHLY_, a whole, dressed, on the bone quadruped is going to 
hover somewhere loosely around the 50% edible portion. Pigs, since a 
certain amount of fat is expected, because some of the skin is 
edible, and because they're now bred for more meat, will go somewhat 
higher percentage-wise, than, say, a dressed baby calf or a lamb, or 
a deer. If you have an undressed animal with guts and such, and 
aren't planning on eating the guts, that will, of course, add to the 
perceived waste.

But let's say 50% is a reasonable rule of thumb for a dressed pig -- 
figure on somewhere around 50 lbs raw pork muscle meat from a 100-lb 
pig. Roughly 70 servings...

Johnnae's numbers, which are more pig-specific than mine, would give 
you closer to 90 servings.

Adamantius
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