[Sca-cooks] Chicken-- cooked weight

[Huette von Ahrens]

Depending on what edition you want, there are quite a few on Alibris, the cheapest being
$5.94...  And ABEbooks starting at $4.75...

Huette

--- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 17, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Sharon Gordon wrote:
> 
> >
> >> I haven't done the weighing myself (and I'm sure the extent of
> >> doneness makes a difference in moisture and therefore mass loss), but
> >> the reference books generally say you lose a third of the mass of
> >> bone-in chicken in cooking. Start with a pound, end up with .667
> >> pounds, etc.
> >
> > Thank you for checking.  What books have good resources for info  
> > like this?
> > Since most of my cooking is from scratch, I am always trying to  
> > figure out
> > things like
> > 1) how much weight of wet dough makes a 1 pound cooked loaf of bread
> > 2) how many pounds/cups a pound of various types of dry beans makes
> > 3) how many people a pound of X will feed
> 
> Most food-service cookbooks have a lot of this information in one  
> form or another, even if only in the form of a recipe for a dish  
> similar to the one you're cooking. For this, though, I'd recommend a  
> copy of "Food for Fifty", which is a little harder to find now, I  
> believe, than it used to be, and more expensive, but you might find a  
> copy used on Amazon for not too much.
> 
>  >>>>>>>>>
> 
> Aww, Jayzuz, just checked, and the used copies on Amazon are  
> ridiculous, too... $60, USED???
> 
> Okay, until you can find a copy, ask your questions here, I guess ;-)
> 
> Or, check here:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/FOOD-FOR-FIFTY-Serving-Large-Groups-THIS-IS-A- 
> MUST_W0QQitemZ4622172022QQcategoryZ378QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewI 
> tem
> 
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> 
> Adamantius
> 
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> 
> 
> "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
> brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
> eat cake!"
>      -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
> "Confessions", 1782
> 
> "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
>      -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
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