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Iam trying to get my moose/pork ratio right but can't figure it out.I want 70% moose/30% pork.7lb/3lb is easy but what if I want 1o lbs moose/?pork.anyone??

IMHO- Best thing to do is mix it up, season, make a pattie, fry it and than decide on how it tastes. May need more of one or the other but better than have 10 lbs. of meat that's not up to your standard. If it's up to your taste go ahead.

10 lbs moose / 4.3 lbs (4 lbs 5 oz) pork gives you 30% pork

thanks guys.

So you can do it for yourself, in the future -

You have 10 lbs of moose and want to know how much pork to add to reach a 70/30 blend.

10 lbs of moose equals 70% (.7) of the unknown total. If you divide the amount of moose by its percentage of the total, you get the total.

10 lbs divided by .7 = 14.28 lbs. So, the total amount of the blend will be 14.28 lbs.

Pork = Total - Moose. Subtract the moose from the total, and that gives you the pork. 14.28 lbs - 10 lbs = 4.28 lbs.


Now, let's say you have 4 lbs of moose.
4 lbs = .7 of the total
Total = 4 lbs divided by .7 = 5.7 lbs
Pork = 5.7 lbs - 4 lbs = 1.7 lbs

So, you would have 4 lbs moose, and need 1.7 lbs pork for a 70/30 blend.

HTH

What Tom has offered will work even if you want to blend more than two meats. Three meats in a 50-30-20 blend would work the same way. Divide the weight of the meat type you want to use to be any percentage by that number and you get the total and you can figure the other meats from there.

But how can one accurately calculate the fat content when mixing moose and pork? Let's just say that very lean moose has a fat content of about 9% and the pork shoulder or ham has a fat content of about 25%; that would give a total fat content of less than 14%.

I don't know if the fat content figures are correct. I've been looking for a source or table which lists various meats and their average fat; haven't found one yet.

Any suggestions? Maybe I'm way out in right field here!

Jim

Let's suppose that you want to use you ten pounds of moose at 90 % lean and that you want a total fat of twenty percent. This gives you 9 pounds of lean moose and one pound of moose fat. This is the 70 % component of the 30/70 mix. Divide the 9 pounds of moose by 90 % of 70% or 63 percent. you still get 14.28 pounds of total mix. Of that 20% will be fat or .2 times 14.28 or about 2.8 pounds of total fat of which one pound is moose fat. Your ham is 25% fat and you need 1.8 pounds of pork fat. You need 4.28 pounds of pork and pork fat to make the balance of the mix. Subtracting 1.8 from the 4.28 yields the total lean pork 2.48 pounds dividing that by .75(the percentage of lean in the ham gives 3.3 pounds of ham of which .82 pounds is fat. Therefore you need to add one pound of pork fat.
Finally you have 10 pounds of moose
and ------------3.3 pounds of ham
and ------------1.0 pounds of pork fat
Total----------14.28-

DAMN, ssorllih, thats some heavy calculating there,lol. I am not that particular.Moose is pretty much lean anyway and if I see a bit of fat,I leave it and roughly deduct the fat content.Not enough room on my counter for a calculator,my beer is in the way.Thanks for the great info guys.

Our pleasure! anytime.

Ross, I do believe they are all speechless after your post. There hasn't been any activity for Nineteen hours.

Jim

I have never before chased anyone with a calculator. I didn't even invoke Pi or exponent.

Have to show 'em Pearson's Square, next.

Pearson's square is new to me. I shall have to study on that for a bit.
Mine is just old school algebra circa 1954.

Pearson's Square is an easy way to calculate ratios. Farmers use it to blend grains of different protein content to achieve a certain protein content in feed. I use it to achieve a certain fat content blend of two meats, or a target alcohol content by volume of different alcohols and/or water when I make liqueurs. And you can come up with a blend of more than two ingredients by calculating the ratios in stages. A neat trick I learned from a former brewer for Anheuser-Busch.

A good page on applying Pearson's Square.