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Sorry Velociraptor but that is not correct. Well, the percentages are correct, but you are calculating from the wrong thing -- that's supposed to be a percentage of LIVE WEIGHT, as far as I know. Your chicken purchased at the grocery was already without its feathers and innards, which account for a significant amount of the inedible parts. (Although it was also undoubtedly 'plumped up' with a saline solution to make it weigh heavier than it really does).
Your 5.6 pound bird would have started off as weighing about 6.5 lbs "on the hoof" -- that is, before it was cleaned and various innards etc removed. A 57% yeild of boneless meat from that (using the figures on the website you cite) means you should get about 3.7 lbs of boneless meat.
Of which you only got half, from your numbers.
Honest, it is worth learning to cut up a chicken
-- and as MissPrissy says, the carcass itself, apparently inedible, is a whole 'nother good resource that saves you further money by going into a lot of other dishes.
The guts that are stuffed in the cavity are edible (and in some cases really good!), you just have to figure out how to prepare them to suit your personal tastes. The 'long rubbery black snotlike things' <g> are blood vessels, and are perfectly edible or if you prefer you can remove them with the point of a knife, and then you can eat the thigh meat, which is a significant amount of the meat of a chicken and frankly has more flavor than the breast anyhow
It's really worth experimenting.
Good luck and good eatin'
,
Pat
Sorry Velociraptor but that is not correct. Well, the percentages are correct, but you are calculating from the wrong thing -- that's supposed to be a percentage of LIVE WEIGHT, as far as I know. Your chicken purchased at the grocery was already without its feathers and innards, which account for a significant amount of the inedible parts. (Although it was also undoubtedly 'plumped up' with a saline solution to make it weigh heavier than it really does).
Your 5.6 pound bird would have started off as weighing about 6.5 lbs "on the hoof" -- that is, before it was cleaned and various innards etc removed. A 57% yeild of boneless meat from that (using the figures on the website you cite) means you should get about 3.7 lbs of boneless meat.
Of which you only got half, from your numbers.
Honest, it is worth learning to cut up a chicken
The guts that are stuffed in the cavity are edible (and in some cases really good!), you just have to figure out how to prepare them to suit your personal tastes. The 'long rubbery black snotlike things' <g> are blood vessels, and are perfectly edible or if you prefer you can remove them with the point of a knife, and then you can eat the thigh meat, which is a significant amount of the meat of a chicken and frankly has more flavor than the breast anyhow
It's really worth experimenting.
Good luck and good eatin'
Pat
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