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03-21-2017, 12:41 PM | #1 |
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Cooking for 40-50
I'll be cooking for a birthday party this weekend. Headcount is 40-50. Here is what I'm planning:
2 - 14# Briskets 1 Full Size Chafing Dish Potato Salad 1 Full Size Chafing Dish Beans (with meat and veg, maybe the Keri Apple) 1 Full Size Chafing Dish Cole Slaw Based on what I cooked for my wedding which was about 90 people I feel this will be a good amount of food. I know other people will likely bring some other food without telling me too.
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03-21-2017, 01:12 PM | #2 |
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You really haven't asked a question but I'm guessing you want to know if your amounts are too much too little or OK. I've always cooked by the weight of the serving per person. A full pan of beans means different things to different people but a 5 ounce serving is just that. Hope this helps.
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03-21-2017, 01:18 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, just checking quantities. I don't remember weights of the food in hotel pans, but surely there must be plenty of people here that do. When I cooked for my wedding I did more meat, but I doubled the sides and that was way too much food for the sides - I figure half of what I did will be plenty.
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03-22-2017, 06:39 PM | #4 |
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Updating with some weights. I've got the two briskets which are 12 and 12.5 pounds. I have 15# boiled potatoes for tater salad, 12 pounds of cabbage for coleslaw, and two of the 117oz bush's baked beans (this will get about 1-2# left over bbq meat, some onion and peppers to stretch it - a variation of Keri's Hog-Apple).
I think this will be plenty. Figure the briskets trim and cook down to 16# total = 5oz for 50 people. 4oz of coleslaw per person, 5oz taters per person, 5oz beans per person. These numbers are also before the fixins in the taters/beans/cabbage too
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03-22-2017, 08:48 PM | #5 |
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I personally think you are low here. 2 12.5lb briskets(25lbs) after trimming and cooking will most likely yield about 11.25lbs of edible meat divided by 50 people = 3.6oz per person. We find that the edible/sales portion of a raw weight brisket after trimming and cooking is about 7.2oz per lb of raw whole brisket.
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03-23-2017, 04:08 AM | #6 | |
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03-23-2017, 07:53 AM | #7 |
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More meat. I agree with HBMTN.
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03-28-2017, 09:21 AM | #8 | |
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03-29-2017, 06:44 PM | #9 |
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I always figure 1/2 pound meat per person....usually have leftovers but thats a good thing.....they dont last long
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04-25-2017, 11:13 AM | #10 |
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So can I tack on to this discussion as it is very similar to the one I am looking at.
65 people 2 proteins: I was going to do 3 briskets (approx. 15lbs pre cooked) and about 20 lbs of boneless chicken breasts 3 hotel pans of mac and cheese 2 hotel pans of beans 15# of potato salad Think I'm good? |
04-30-2017, 07:20 AM | #11 |
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the above answers are correct...not enough meat
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05-04-2017, 11:45 AM | #12 | |
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