A typical full‑grown beef cow can make roughly 1,500–2,500 burgers , depending on its size and how big you like your patties.

Quick Scoop

  • An average beef animal (around 1,200 pounds live weight) yields about 450–500 pounds of edible beef after bones and excess fat are removed.
  • If you turned all that meat into quarter‑pound patties, you’d get around 1,800–2,000 burgers.
  • In reality, not every part of the cow becomes ground beef, because some of it is kept as steaks and roasts, so the true burger count is often lower—more like 600–1,500 patties depending on how much is ground.

A simple way to picture it

Think of it like this:

  • Edible beef from one cow: about 490 pounds.
  • Quarter‑pound burger: 0.25 pound.
  • 490 ÷ 0.25 ≈ 1,960 burgers if everything became ground beef.

But since people also want steaks, brisket, and roasts, only part of that ends up as burger meat, which is why many real‑world estimates land closer to 600–1,500 patties per cow.

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