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Sheldon wrote:
> wrote:
> > I slow cooked a whole
> > turkey and I did a whole chicken. The 12Lb turkey after cooked, deboned
> > weighed in at 6Lbs. So you pay for 12Lbs and
> > get 6Lbs. Same with the chicken. 6Lbs becomes 3Lbs. Both my chicken and
> > turkey were so tender they fell off the bones. I think some people
> > won't believe these figures. I actually weighed them. If this is the
> > case is boneless possibly the better deal? Just want to see if anyone
> > else has figured this out. Thanks, I'll be looking in.
>
> I roast or rotisserie 6-7 pound rosasting chickens all the time,
> definitely don't lose half their weight, perhaps barely 1/3.
>
> Slow cooked is tantamount to braised... what weight you lost was mostly
> water (meat is better than 70% H2O), and fat (naturally if you discard
> the fat instead of using it that's one's choice, years ago folks used
> all that meat fat - years ago folks worked a heck of a lot harder - the
> farmers around here don't need to watch their diets or go to a gym).
> Bones in of themselves, especially poultry bones, contribute little to
> weight loss from cooking. Most any braised meat will be reduced to
> less than half it's raw weight... not ribs and other bony cuts but all
> others. But you can't honestly claim you lost that weight because it's
> now in the sauce you created.
>
> When you purchase deboned cuts most of the higher cost is due to labor
> (butchering)... takes time to trim and tie a roast. If one is a smart
> shopper they will buy bone-in cuts and debone themselves, then the
> bones and trimmings can be used to prepare very tasty dishes. This
> week the Price Chopper stupidmarket chain here had bone-in center cut
> pork loin on sale at 99¢/lb, I bought 15 pounds worth yesterday, spent
> 20 minutes trimming, deboning some, and repackaging... got a nice huge
> roast, a mess of chops (9 biguns), and about five pounds stewing pork,
> nice chunks that'll be used for braising and/or marinated for
> grilling... bones will be used for ****ghetti sauce. I even took a
> picture of this package before opening... will post it in a week or so
> when I have enough pics to download.
>
> Sheldon

I just want to make sure you know how I'm thinking. Say you buy a whole
6Lb chicken on sale for .65Lb. If, and I say if you end up with
something like 3Lbs that you can eat
that means that you paid $1.30 a pound not .65 a pound.