Wednesday, June 13, 2012

How much raw chicken do I cook?

Just grilled 2 chicken breasts.  Just picked ones I thought would be close to 3 oxz and 4 oz after cooking.  These are small.  Most you get in the store are twice this size.  I usually cook it in bulk and then weigh the cooked chicken before I use it.  It would be nice to know how much raw chicken to buy for a given recipe.
Here's what I learned:
Raw Thawed   Cooked
4.3 oz.                3.3 oz.
5.8 oz.                4.5 oz.

Rule of thumb:  Raw weight x 0.77 = cooked weight.

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