beef weight to volume

Gday Tonester

As Dr Karl would say - do the experiment.....at a guess, It would have a density of about 1.1. To test, weigh a piece of steak, and see how much water it displaces from a full container of water of a known volume...if its a 500 gram steak and displaces 45 grams water it has a density of about 1.11 or thereabouts...if it doesn't sink, it is les than 1.

I would say it would still come under the 55kg, as it will have a few air gaps. The other option is to fill the fridge, and weigh the meat

Cheers Andrew

Go down to you butcher,get a 1kg beef roast,take the cubic measurement of that against the cubic measurement of your fridge,wouldnt be all that hard i wouldnt think ?

Cant work out why you would go to all this trouble

Hi Tony,

depends on how fatty the meat is and if there are any bones but as the water content of fresh meat is high, not far off 1kg per litre.

Regards,

Adrian

1. The density of mammalian skeletal muscle is 1.06 g/ml.
"... 1.06 g/cm-3 which is the density of mammalian skeletal muscle"

Source for quote: The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological
Sciences and Medical Sciences 56:B191-B197 (2001)
Specific Force Deficit in Skeletal Muscles of Old Rats Is Partially
Explained by the Existence of Denervated Muscle Fibers
Melanie G. Urbancheka, Elisa B. Pickenb, Loree K. Kalliainenc and
William M. Kuzon, Jr.a,d
http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/full/56/5/B191#R23

Reference given by the authors: Mendez J, Keys A, 1960. Density and
composition of mammalian muscle. Metabolism 9:184-188.

2. The density of adipose tissue (fat) is about 0.9 g/ml
"...by multiplying the density of adipose tissue (0.9196 g/ml)"
Source: Association of adiponectin and resistin with adipose tissue
compartments, insulin resistance and dyslipidaemia
M. S. Farvid1, T. W. K. Ng2, D. C. Chan2, P. H. R. Barrett2 and G. F. Watts2*
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Truckster ,the variables are many , but if you cant fit 50kg of meat into a 55lt space its time to invest in a mincer LOL.

We are basically the same as beef and we float with just our mouth above water so if you weigh 70 kgs then you have a body volumne of about 70 litres. Simple!!