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Raw material purchase calculator

Enter the net weight of finished product you need and the waste percentage from processing (trimming, deboning, butchering). The calculator works out how much raw material to buy and what it will cost.

Taken from a waste table or your own kitchen measurements
Leave blank if you don't need the purchase cost

Result

Buy this much raw material

Goes to waste
Usable yield
Purchase cost

Your inputs are stored in this browser, so everything is still here next time. Nothing is sent to a server.

This calculation is for informational purposes only and does not replace advice from a qualified professional. Formulas and rates may not fit your exact situation — double-check the figures before making decisions.

How it is calculated

Purchase = net weight needed ÷ (1 − waste ÷ 100). This is the reverse of the usual gross-to-net calculation: that one goes from a purchase to a net weight, this one goes from the required net weight back to the purchase.

Waste amount = purchase − net weight needed. Yield = 100% − waste percentage — handy for checking against norms that are often stated as a yield rather than a waste rate.

Purchase cost is calculated on the full purchased weight, including the part that becomes waste — that's how the real cost of the net product is formed, not by the raw price per kilogram alone.

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