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Crawfish Breakdown for Meat & Fat Yields
Posted on 7/13/23 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 7/13/23 at 10:48 pm
I found some live crawfish in Abu Dhabi that said they were a product of Egypt. However, when I saw them walking around and got closer I could smell the Louisiana swamp.. Well, not really, but I knew they were Red Swamp Louisiana Crawfish, called Procambarus Clarkii !!
Then, I did a bit of research and they sure were, where at one time were considered an invasive species in Egypt... Some old Egyptian Baw many years ago bought and shipped some small ones and when they grew they were tearing his nets, so he called them cockroaches and threw them into the Nile River, where they went to town populating. What a great thing to be invading a country! Anyway, they now have a huge export crawfish business and even ship back to the USA. Go figure!
I wanted to break down the weights of crawfish meat, with fat and with claw meat and these are my results.
Average weight on 15 crawfish (After I boiled and ate 3 kg. (6.6 pounds) I got the following numbers below:
53 grams average weight of the 15 test crawfish
9.3 grams average weight of tail & fat
15.5% tail meat only average from total body weight
17.5% tail meat & fat average from total body weight
24% tail meat, fat & claw meat average from total weight
25% same as last but a large set of claws
So, to get one pound of peeled crawfish tails & fat you would need 49 individual crawfish- 454g/9.3g = 48.8 round to 49 crawfish.
Some had a lot of fat where the tail was 9 grams and it had 5 grams of fat. One crawfish with big claws had about 5 grams of claw meat.
Numbers seem correct to you crawfish experts?
Then, I did a bit of research and they sure were, where at one time were considered an invasive species in Egypt... Some old Egyptian Baw many years ago bought and shipped some small ones and when they grew they were tearing his nets, so he called them cockroaches and threw them into the Nile River, where they went to town populating. What a great thing to be invading a country! Anyway, they now have a huge export crawfish business and even ship back to the USA. Go figure!
I wanted to break down the weights of crawfish meat, with fat and with claw meat and these are my results.
Average weight on 15 crawfish (After I boiled and ate 3 kg. (6.6 pounds) I got the following numbers below:
53 grams average weight of the 15 test crawfish
9.3 grams average weight of tail & fat
15.5% tail meat only average from total body weight
17.5% tail meat & fat average from total body weight
24% tail meat, fat & claw meat average from total weight
25% same as last but a large set of claws
So, to get one pound of peeled crawfish tails & fat you would need 49 individual crawfish- 454g/9.3g = 48.8 round to 49 crawfish.
Some had a lot of fat where the tail was 9 grams and it had 5 grams of fat. One crawfish with big claws had about 5 grams of claw meat.
Numbers seem correct to you crawfish experts?
Posted on 7/14/23 at 6:58 am to Dubaitiger
Crawfish heads grow un-exponentially from the tails. Heads grow faster than the tails. The larger the crawfish, the less meat yield. So size matters when determining meat yield.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 10:08 am to Dubaitiger
Interesting data, but I don't have an answer to your question.
One helpful bit of information that you could include is number of crawfish per pound.
If you measured "53 grams average weight of the 15 test crawfish" and "to get one pound of peeled crawfish tails & fat you would need 49 individual crawfish" then 49x53g= 2597g. Divide that by 454g=5.720264317180. So, to get #1 of crawfish tails with fat you would need #5.7 of cooked crawfish.
One helpful bit of information that you could include is number of crawfish per pound.
If you measured "53 grams average weight of the 15 test crawfish" and "to get one pound of peeled crawfish tails & fat you would need 49 individual crawfish" then 49x53g= 2597g. Divide that by 454g=5.720264317180. So, to get #1 of crawfish tails with fat you would need #5.7 of cooked crawfish.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 2:25 pm to Dubaitiger
From my practical experience of many boils just to harvest the tail meat and cleaned heads for Crawfish Bisque and other crawfish based dishes, it takes close to 6 lbs. of boiled crawfish to end up with 1 lb. of tail meat.
The bigger the crawfish, the less meat to shell ratio due to the large head/thorax portion. You will get better ratios using medium crawfish as far as shell to tail meat ratios.
The bigger the crawfish, the less meat to shell ratio due to the large head/thorax portion. You will get better ratios using medium crawfish as far as shell to tail meat ratios.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 6:43 pm to gumbo2176
Exactly, 5.7 # is close to 6 #. And at 6 # whole crawfish for 1 # of tail meat is 16.7%, which is in between my 15.5-17.5% for net tail n fat.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:48 pm to BigDropper
Yes that's correct. There's about 7lb of tails in a sack of crawfish.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 4:29 pm to Dubaitiger
Thanks for posting this information, Dubaitiger. Very interesting.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 10:19 pm to Stadium Rat
quote:
Thanks for posting this information, Dubaitiger. Very interesting.
S. Rat,
You are welcome

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