SCA cooks will snort

[bunnyjadwiga]

Someone else posting: "Cassoulet for 70 people: do not try this at home!"
http://food4.epicurious.com/HyperNews/get/swap/61724.html
(Yes it's a classic no-sh*t, there we were in the kitchen story.)

For those who don't know why this is amusing, see:
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/Daybrd-Advent-art.html
as an example of SCA cooking no-sh*t stories.

Comments

[montuos]

Yeah, that lady just isn't in the same class as you!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

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.