She's a piker, which of course was the point you were making. 70 is a *smallish* SCA feast around here these days. 100-150 seems to be the "normal" size, with the big kingdom events often feeding considerably more.
One of the first things I learned about cooking for a crowd was at FanTek House well before I started doing SCA cooking. That lesson was: Really large pots of things take a LOT longer to heat up than you think they will. It's the whole cube-square issue, stolenimported from Biology class. The pot that our eyes perceive as "twice as big" as another pot actually holds FOUR times as much stuff, if not more.
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One of the first things I learned about cooking for a crowd was at FanTek House well before I started doing SCA cooking. That lesson was: Really large pots of things take a LOT longer to heat up than you think they will. It's the whole cube-square issue,
stolenimported from Biology class. The pot that our eyes perceive as "twice as big" as another pot actually holds FOUR times as much stuff, if not more.