For my birthday I'd asked for one thing; enough money to buy some pork butts; I am all out of sausages, pork steak, buck board bacon, etc! Well, I got my wish! 2 - $25 gift cards from my sons and up to $20 from my wife for Tom Thumb, who at present has the best price in town on pork butts, $2.99 down to $1.87 on sale per lb. I got two 2-packs:
I (my son) boned out all four butts, this is one of them after removing the bone:
laid back together, boneless:
I (we) processed them into pork cuts, pork trim for sausages, buck board bacon on one, bone and fat:
for buckboard bacon 1 - 4lb 4 oz piece:
Off each butt I (we) cut off 3 - 4 pork steak for the freezer for dinners (such as Pork and Rice dinner posted previously), then trimmed out three of them into pork cubes for sausage, 90% lean minimum, and one into buckboard (above). So, the figures look like this (and converting pounds and ounces into pounds and 10ths to 100ths of pounds (divide ounces by 16 to get decimal):
total bag weights of butts:
15.81
17.03
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32.84
total weight of butts outside of bag and rinsed:
7 09
8.59
8.66
8.38
------
32.72
purge in bags: .12 oz., net weight of butts = 32.72 lbs.
Pork Trim:
17.72 lbs. for sausage/trim
Pork Steaks:
1.23
1.40
1.63
1.77
------
6.03
for Buck Board Bacon:
4.25 lb.
bones:
.54
.44
.52
.49
-----
1.99 lb of bones
fat:
1.53 lb of fat
total net weights of butts: 32.72
total of cut and trim weights: 31.52
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trim loss: 1.2 lbs.
So, to collate the figures, you have:
Pork Trim: 17.72
Pork Steaks: 6.03
Buck Board Bacon: 4.25
Waste* : 4.84 (*: bone, fat, trim loss, purge)
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32.84 net product weight total, X $1.87 lb., = $61.41 calculated, $61.41 actual from tags
Perfect! Now... Let's have fun!
**Edited"" - wife made me edit this to say *my son* did the knife work as I can't; she said I was being vain and incorrigible not mentioning that little fact... oh well, yes, dear!
I (my son) boned out all four butts, this is one of them after removing the bone:
laid back together, boneless:
I (we) processed them into pork cuts, pork trim for sausages, buck board bacon on one, bone and fat:
for buckboard bacon 1 - 4lb 4 oz piece:
Off each butt I (we) cut off 3 - 4 pork steak for the freezer for dinners (such as Pork and Rice dinner posted previously), then trimmed out three of them into pork cubes for sausage, 90% lean minimum, and one into buckboard (above). So, the figures look like this (and converting pounds and ounces into pounds and 10ths to 100ths of pounds (divide ounces by 16 to get decimal):
total bag weights of butts:
15.81
17.03
---------
32.84
total weight of butts outside of bag and rinsed:
7 09
8.59
8.66
8.38
------
32.72
purge in bags: .12 oz., net weight of butts = 32.72 lbs.
Pork Trim:
17.72 lbs. for sausage/trim
Pork Steaks:
1.23
1.40
1.63
1.77
------
6.03
for Buck Board Bacon:
4.25 lb.
bones:
.54
.44
.52
.49
-----
1.99 lb of bones
fat:
1.53 lb of fat
total net weights of butts: 32.72
total of cut and trim weights: 31.52
-----------------------------------------------------
trim loss: 1.2 lbs.
So, to collate the figures, you have:
Pork Trim: 17.72
Pork Steaks: 6.03
Buck Board Bacon: 4.25
Waste* : 4.84 (*: bone, fat, trim loss, purge)
----------------------------------------
32.84 net product weight total, X $1.87 lb., = $61.41 calculated, $61.41 actual from tags
Perfect! Now... Let's have fun!
**Edited"" - wife made me edit this to say *my son* did the knife work as I can't; she said I was being vain and incorrigible not mentioning that little fact... oh well, yes, dear!
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