Orihalcon
Expert Member
I've done the math. Your argument is flawed.
Example. Let's take the humble chicken breast pack I can buy at R28.99 per kg. The piece of the bird with the most meat . After having cooked, cleaned and removed bone and cartilage, how much actual meat do you think comes out of a chicken breast?
I'll tell you. A raw 410g chicken breast yielded a total of 245g of cooked meat. That's right. Almost half the weight in skin, bone, offal and cartilage. I've done the counts on about 100kg worth of breasts over months as that was my primary source of chicken. That % holds true accross the average.
I also did the math on a whole chicken. Laughable. Let's say there is a reason they are so much cheaper.
Now factor in that even using brined chicken fillets like I do, I get about 720g of cooked meat from a kg.
Sure, on paper the pieces are cheaper. But factor in cooked meat weight , the EFFORT in deboning kilos of breasts, the extra cooking time and prep time...well. I need not go on. At R35.90 my fillets beats out any other chicken special by far.
Yes. I am that OCD that I do the cost/benefit ratio calculations on all my meals factoring in cooking time and the like. As I said. I stretch my pennies.
if perceived as such.
