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north central Ohio | Never really paid much attention to shrink of pork butt from cooking to servable meat but we smoked the meat for a FFA leadership night on our pellet smoker and served at least 200 sandwiches to students and ag teachers. We started with 100 pounds of raw pork butt and decided to smoke an extra 36# after we saw what we were netting. Ended up with 58# of servable pork butt or 42.6% of what we started with. Was pretty surprised at that outcome. Pork went over really well and had about 12# left over. Just curious what others have seen? Some of the butts were cleaner then others when you started pulling them apart but I couldn't tell from the outside how much fat they had inside. Shrink really adds a lot of cost to an animal that I never realized. | |
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Pork butt shrink
