Making a large quantity of soups....

[Ramcharger90]

So if someone was a cook in the military this would be in your wheel house.

I bought the woman a 164qt pot for Christmas.

It says it makes over 70lbs of food.

So here is the delma how do you calculate how many chickens, how many lbs of noodles and corn and stock?

The plan is to freeze and use throughout the year obviously we would be pulling resorces with another family and split it.

 

[RobbieD]

Damned if I know for sure, but it seems that you could find a recipe for a soup or stew that "makes x quarts" and just do the math for the quantity that you want to make.

Nice pot, though. You could hot tank an engine block in something that big but doing so would likely be fatal if the Mrs. found out.

 

[Curious Hound]

Yup. What he ^^^ said. Just multiply your favorite recipes. After a while you get a natural feel for the quantities and ratios and it becomes easier to wing it.

Biggest quantity I ever cooked was one day in Navy boot camp. I spent a week working in the kitchen (galley). But one day, one of the cooks let me cook macaroni for the macaroni&cheese he was making. I cooked macaroni in a steam kettle that sat on the floor. Must have held 30-40 gallons. I cooked a lot of macaroni that morning.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

That’s a big kettle! I have a 15 gallon I use for making beer. Mom doesn’t make soup except for rare attempts at it and I never bothered to try. Closest I come is the barley soup for mashing grain, lol

 

[Roert42]

When I was just out of high school I made soup for every meal. Made about 2 gallons every Sunday. Gallon of chicken stock, bag of egg noodles, and whatever I had on hand.

Fed me for the week. Cheap too. Every day I would come home from work and scoop a bowl full, nuke it. Then watch reruns of mash on MeTv.

Drinking Pabst and smoking Winchester red box.

 

[DILLARD000]

Also known in some parts as a "Cajun Cooker".
Good for boiling up a big batch of CrawFish,
or frying up several Turkeys in PeanutOil !!!

 

[Curious Hound]

Would be a good pot for a "low country boil", sometimes called Beaufort Stew. Has a few other names. I'll have to dig up that recipe for you.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Every day I would come home from work and scoop a bowl full, nuke it. Then watch reruns of mash on MeTv.

Drinking Pabst and smoking Winchester red box.

You sir, are a connoisseur.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

I would say do the math per person but err to make it a little on the thick side, and you could always water it down when reheating...