SC - Soup figuring?

[Jenne Heise]

> I still think that you may be going 'way overboard with 100# of chicken.  I
> usually calculate about 1/3 - 1/4 pounds of chicken per person, even when it's the
> meat by itself...unless I'm serving something like chicken thighs, which have a
> higher percentage of bone to the amount of meat.  Even there, 1/2 pound would be
> more than sufficient.  I do hope you plan to use split breasts and thighs for your
> soup as you will get more meat per pound of chicken than if you use a whole
> chicken, where there is a LOT of waste.

We were calculating about 1/4 lb per person (or less), but I think our
broth calculations were off a bit! Which is what I was trying to figure
out. Even if we get whole chicken and use the wastage (necks, backs, etc.) 
to make the stock first, that's still 80 lbs, to feed 320 people, meaning
20 gallons of soup...

Thanks for the reality check!

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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