Cushion cuts were incredibly popular from most of the nineteenth century until the early twentieth century. The basis for the cushion cut is the so-called old mine cut, which was a square cut with rounded corners, deep with a high crown, small table and large facets. The old mine cut had 33 crown facets and 25 pavilion facets. The modern cushion cut resembles a cross between the old mine cut and a modern oval cut.
The direct method of measuring the actual meat yield of a carcass is to take the carcasses to a commercial boning room where the butchers remove the meat from the bones. 1  Using cashmere wether goats aged between 2.5 and 4.5 years with live weights ranging from 27 to 79 kg the following meat yields were measured: 1  The carcass weights ranged from 12 to 33 kg. 2  Averaged over the entire kill, for every 1 kg increase in live weight, boneless meat increased 0.307 kg (Figure 2)
Pork Carcass Breakdown Weights HOG CARCASS BREAKDOWN With a market weight of 250 pounds and yield of 73.6 percent, the typical hog will a produce a 184-pound carcass. The carcass will yield approximately 140 pounds of pork and 44 pounds of skin, fat, and bone.Ham - 45 pounds, 24 percent of the carcass 25.5 pounds of cured ham, 2.3 pounds of fresh ham, 5.8 pounds of trimmings and 11.4 pounds of skin, fat, and bone.Side (Belly) - 34.9 pounds, 19 percent of the carcass 19 pounds of cured bacon, 5.8 pounds of spareribs, 9.1 pounds of trimmings and 1 pound of fat.OG CARCASS BREAKDOWN. With a market weight of 250 pounds and yield of 73.6 percent, the typical hog will a produce a 184-pound carcass. The carcass will yield approximately 140 pounds of pork and 44 pounds of skin, fat, and bone.