Hit 500 pounds of trim waste in one week last month and it scared me straight

I never really paid attention to how much I was tossing until I bagged it all up for the dumpster. Five hundred pounds in five days. That's a whole steer's worth of scraps. Really made me rethink my cutting technique. Any of you guys track your trim waste?

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tyler_fox411mo ago

Nah, weighing scraps just makes me feel worse about eating the good parts.

wadeyoung1mo ago

Man that's a wake up call for sure. Started weighing my scraps after a buddy bragged about his 90% yield on a whole loin. First week I was tossing close to 25% of every primal. Switched to a sharper boning knife and started trimming closer to the bone, now I'm down to maybe 15% waste on a good week. Still feels bad when you see that pile in the bucket at the end of the day though.