beef weight to volume

Submitted: Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:03
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Hi all.

What would the 'volume' of 1kg of beef be, anyone know??

Perhaps a strange question, but serious! Basically, if I jam packed my 55lt esky with beef, generally speaking how much would it weigh?

I can't find the answer on the all knowing Internet.
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Reply By: Member - andrew B (Kununurra) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:14

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:14
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
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Follow Up By: Member - Tonester (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:29

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:29
ah yeah.. I was about to ask about the displacement thing but I just got it. Should work.
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Reply By: growler - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:16

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:16
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 ?
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Follow Up By: Member - Tonester (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:31

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:31
but to measure accurately the volume of a chunk of meat...? Its not likely to be close to a known measurable shape. something like the water displacement above should work
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Reply By: growler - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:41

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:41
Cant work out why you would go to all this trouble
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Follow Up By: Member - Tonester (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:51

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:51
cause my 50lt fridge was chockas with meat the other day and by bleep it weigh heaps. kinda curious
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Reply By: AdrianLR (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:43

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 18:43
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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Follow Up By: Member - Tonester (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:54

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:54
Hey Adrian! Thats one fully referenced quote!
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Follow Up By: growler - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:57

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:57
What be the formula for grain fed beef against the every day paddock variety,or Banded Galloways against Drought Masters
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Reply By: Alloy c/t - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:02

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:02
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.
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Follow Up By: Member - Tonester (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:54

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:54
half of it was mince
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Follow Up By: growler - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 20:07

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 20:07
Sounds like it be an old cow down with milk fever strung up in the back paddock
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Reply By: Member - Ian H (NSW) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:29

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:29
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!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Tonester (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:55

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 19:55
lol. last time I exhaled in water I sank to the bottom
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Follow Up By: GoneTroppo Member (FNQ) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 20:35

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 20:35
I tried this with one of my young steers.......but he wouldn't keep still, kept struggling......... his head was way above the water line.

So either he weighed less or he had a sense of survival
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Follow Up By: Member - Tonester (VIC) - Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 21:31

Monday, Apr 30, 2007 at 21:31
stick the ex-him in a cage first

well, works for cats anyway

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