[legalbeagle]

There is no information in the article about where the information on calorie counts came from. Personally, they seem wrong to me, at least on some of the items. I don't think the Cowboy Ribeye from Ruth's Cris, for example, really contains 1650 calories.

[dsp1234]

The Cowboy Ribeye is 22 ounces with bone-in. And some math:

  1 gram = 4 calories
  1 oz = 28.35 grams
  -----------------
  22 * 28.35 * 4 = 2495 calories (assuming pure protein)

That of course assumes that the whole thing is pure protein, when it obviously has fat and bone in it. So at 1650 calories, the steak would have to about 2/3 protein. This matches up with my experience at Ruth's Chris. On top of that, is the delicious butter they serve everything in, which is additional calories.

So yeah, 1650 seems completely reasonable for the Cowboy Ribeye.

[legalbeagle]

Two errors in this. First, the 22 oz is before cooking weight. After cooking will be less - maybe 16 oz raw (after you deduct bone and fat) and 12 oz after cooking. The remaining lean meat isn't pure protein. There's other tissues. nutritiondata.self.com lists only about 76.7 calories per oz, or about 920 calories for the whole thing.

[DanBC]

Why are you discounting fat? You don't lose that when cooking the steak. You've forgotton to add anything for the butter they add. I don't think the bone weighs six ounces - but I admit I have little idea what a fucking ounce is.

Google tells me there are 291 calories in a cooked ribeye steak. That's over 1,000 for a 16 ounce steak.

You are severely underestimating the calorie content.

[Mz]

Chipotle has a nutrition calculator on its site: http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutr...

I think this is pretty common these days, to see such info either in store or on the chain's websites.