first off you definately need to get them to peg the amount of people for you. The basic formula is 1/4-1/3 lb. of meat per person, but that is finished weight. When you cook a pork butt you loosed approx. 40% of the uncooked weight, so if you start with a 10 lb. butt you only get approx. 6 lbs. of finished product.
Beside above,How much brisket per person do I Need?
That fat cap also accounts for a small percentage of the total weight. Buy 1/2 pound of raw brisket per person. Serve 1/3 pound of cooked brisket per person.
Also question is,How many people would a pound of pulled pork feed?
First rule: 1 pound of cooked pulled pork is enough to feed 3 people. This means that about 1/3 of a pound (or 5 ounces) is good for one serving.
In this regard,How many pounds pulled pork for 20 people?
20 x 6 = 120 ounces of finished pulled pork. There are 16 ounces per pound, so 120/16 gives you 7.5 pounds of cooked pulled pork for the party. Ok, but how much raw meat are you going to need? So to feed 20 average people, you’ll need 15 pounds of raw pork from the butcher’s shop of grocery store.
What kind of meat do you use to make pulled pork?
There’s many different cuts of meat that you can use to make pulled pork. They all have their slight differences, but they’re all great cuts, anything from the picnic roast, the pork butt, the Cali, or you’ll often those terms used with the word Boston in front of it, and that’s exactly what this is.