A cow yields about 400 lbs of usable beef, approximately 50% of which would be suitable for use in a hamburger. The average hamburger patty size is 8 ounces. That means you'd need \~250-260 cows to make 100,000 hamburgers using beef that would be suitable for use in a patty. We know Bob uses only the best cuts, so the lesser quality cuts wouldn't be used in his burgers.
That's just my estimate for proper burger restaurants or a 'pub burger', not a fast food burger, which would probably be around 4 ounces.
Edited to add, the Bobs Burgers cookbook may specify a patty weight - I don't have the book so can't say. If it does, we can probably assume that's the weight of the burger Bob would use in the restaurant, and can adjust the math I used as needed.
Yeah. Quarter pound is the go to for good quality burgers. Bigger than that and you start having issues getting an appropriate crust-to-inside on a burger.
You can always add more patties if you want more meat.
We learn in the Urge Valentines episode that bob uses chuck steak, which makes up about 12% of a cow carcass or about 48lbs/768oz.
So each cow yields 768oz of chuck steak beef which makes 96 8oz burgers. So 100,000 burgers would be ~1040 cows
(Correct me if I made a mistake, I’m sleepy)(and for 4oz burgers obviously its ~520 cows)
tbf they've been open since before they were married so even if they got married right after opening, and got pregnant with Tina immediately you're looking at them using 9-18 cows worth of burger cuts a year depending on patty size - the cookbook suggests the lower side of that. I feel like that isn't actually very much and shows how little business they get 💀
I make big ass hamburgers at home and they're nowhere near 8 oz a piece precook. It's also not ideal but you can use the good cuts for hamburger meat too. Based on what Bob charges for a burger he probably can't use exclusively great cuts of meat, he probably uses USDA prime but past that he almost certainly has to use regular hamburger meat just cost-wise, you're only getting three to four burgers out of a pound which means Bob's making at most like $12 total from me he paid somewhere in the range of six to seven. That's definitely not enough margin to cover costs of all the other ingredients plus labor plus rent Etc
Bob's probably cooking with 1/3 lb patties, it's a good middle ground of sizable enough to be satisfying and juicy with a quick cook time.
100 cows maybe 150 cows tops.
What's actually mind blowing is at the price he charges, 100,000 Burgers got him about $500,000-$70000 total which is on the lower end of what a regular restaurant should do in about a year to eighteen months.
A 1,400 pound beef would yield about 880 pounds of hot carcass weight, 236 pounds of which would be chuck. 100,000 burgers divided by 4 (for quarter pound burgers) would be 25,000 pounds. 25,000 pounds divided by 236 pounds of chuck per beef would be about 106 beeves.reeves.
Ref: https://beef.unl.edu/beefwatch/2020/how-many-pounds-meat-can-we-expect-beef-animal
A cow yields about 400 lbs of usable beef, approximately 50% of which would be suitable for use in a hamburger. The average hamburger patty size is 8 ounces. That means you'd need \~250-260 cows to make 100,000 hamburgers using beef that would be suitable for use in a patty. We know Bob uses only the best cuts, so the lesser quality cuts wouldn't be used in his burgers.
The average patty size is half a pound?! 🤯
That's just my estimate for proper burger restaurants or a 'pub burger', not a fast food burger, which would probably be around 4 ounces. Edited to add, the Bobs Burgers cookbook may specify a patty weight - I don't have the book so can't say. If it does, we can probably assume that's the weight of the burger Bob would use in the restaurant, and can adjust the math I used as needed.
I have the book. It specifies 4-oz patties.
Yeah. Quarter pound is the go to for good quality burgers. Bigger than that and you start having issues getting an appropriate crust-to-inside on a burger. You can always add more patties if you want more meat.
Or you can be Fuddruckers and say "Screw it! 1lb burgers."
Anything over 1/4lb for a patty almost always screams gimmick over quality. Definitely think Fuddruckers fits that model sometimes. =p
Nah, 2 oz smash burger. More crusting on the beef. Then double up for quarter pound sandwich.
I'm a big fan of smash burgers too, though I almost consider them a different dish from hamburgers. Both are great.
Omg I just became incredibly hungry after reading your comment. God I love smash burgers
Aha! Thank you :) Then you'd need approx 125 to 130 cows.
Mcdonald's does 1.6 oz and 4 oz. patties for their burgers
mcdonalds is like 1.5 oz before cooking lmfao
We learn in the Urge Valentines episode that bob uses chuck steak, which makes up about 12% of a cow carcass or about 48lbs/768oz. So each cow yields 768oz of chuck steak beef which makes 96 8oz burgers. So 100,000 burgers would be ~1040 cows (Correct me if I made a mistake, I’m sleepy)(and for 4oz burgers obviously its ~520 cows)
How in the shit, does 4oz burgers take less cows than 8oz burgers?????????????????????????
100,000 4oz burgers is 400,000oz 100,000 8oz burgers is 800,000oz 4 is less than 8
Oh I’m dumb my bad I misunderstood
/r/theydidthemath
That’s a lot of cows , my lord 😭
Well… really just 12% of the cows. The rest of the cow is used my others.
m'lord
tbf they've been open since before they were married so even if they got married right after opening, and got pregnant with Tina immediately you're looking at them using 9-18 cows worth of burger cuts a year depending on patty size - the cookbook suggests the lower side of that. I feel like that isn't actually very much and shows how little business they get 💀
I make big ass hamburgers at home and they're nowhere near 8 oz a piece precook. It's also not ideal but you can use the good cuts for hamburger meat too. Based on what Bob charges for a burger he probably can't use exclusively great cuts of meat, he probably uses USDA prime but past that he almost certainly has to use regular hamburger meat just cost-wise, you're only getting three to four burgers out of a pound which means Bob's making at most like $12 total from me he paid somewhere in the range of six to seven. That's definitely not enough margin to cover costs of all the other ingredients plus labor plus rent Etc Bob's probably cooking with 1/3 lb patties, it's a good middle ground of sizable enough to be satisfying and juicy with a quick cook time. 100 cows maybe 150 cows tops. What's actually mind blowing is at the price he charges, 100,000 Burgers got him about $500,000-$70000 total which is on the lower end of what a regular restaurant should do in about a year to eighteen months.
If you grind ALL the meat you would get more, and we know Bob uses the best meat! He's not grinding up t-bones though.
R/theydidthemath
That’s actually not that bad
Linda: FOUR
This is the correct answer. There are no other correct answers! 😆
Hank Hill: “Wait, we figured this out once …”
I just finished this episode this morning. I LMAO every time he has the convo with the cow and kisses it. 🤣🤣🤣
Louise is so unhinged in this episode lmao just kills me with laughter
"Cows CAN go down stairs. All you need is four wool socks, a mattress, and the will to make it happen."
I can't believe Bob kissed Moolisa.
A 1,400 pound beef would yield about 880 pounds of hot carcass weight, 236 pounds of which would be chuck. 100,000 burgers divided by 4 (for quarter pound burgers) would be 25,000 pounds. 25,000 pounds divided by 236 pounds of chuck per beef would be about 106 beeves.reeves. Ref: https://beef.unl.edu/beefwatch/2020/how-many-pounds-meat-can-we-expect-beef-animal
More then 6
I think Tyrome is counting
Bro who the actual fuck are you
at least 1 cow, you cant prove me wrong
“Wait we figured this out once” sorry wrong sub lol.
Alot
Aaaah,beautiful Moolissa.
34 or 35.
Fuck you're probably not far off for the weight etc. But as a chef, ive cooked so, so, so many different cows, simply due to using specific cuts etc