On 11/28/2019 08:31 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article t,
says...
You didn't ask what size it was going to be before you ordered it?




Found their ad and it said 14 to 16 pounds.

That must be before cooking. I would not expect it to loose around 5 or
more pounds during the cooking.



You can figure roughly a 25% loss. That's for the whole bird. Then you
have the weight of the inedible bones. Overall the yield is about 50%.

A friend tried a number of business ventures, most of which didn't work
out. He was quite meticulous to the point of being suffering from OCD.
One was a sandwich business for a barroom. He was quite shocked when a
10 pound beef roast didn't yield the number of 4 ounce sandwich portions
he had calculated after cooking. He found that buying frozen pre-cooked
roasts from a restaurant supply was more economical.

Then there was the pizza parlor... The night before the grand opening I
found him sitting on the floor drinking beer and close to tears. 'I made
a pizza and it was so bad the dog wouldn't eat it.'