[philmont] Cooking Water

This question is difficult to answer. One, because as others have
pointed out, the menu changes from year to year; two, because it depends
to some extent on whether you dump all of the meal into the same pot;
and three because of the many variables in the amount of water each
package uses and not having those packages handy.
 
*Most* of the main entrees last summer used 2 cups per bag (12 cups or 3
quarts for a crew of 12 people). Sometimes there is a side vegetable
that uses around 1 - 1 1/2 cups per bag (another 1 1/2 - 2 quarts).
Soup uses more unless you cook it with the main course then its only "a
little" more.
 
If I'm reading your question properly, i.e. what is the most water you
will need in order to cook a main course meal for 12?, then the answer I
would give you is 3+ quarts. Based on your question, I'm sure you
realize that a 4 quart pot is probably not suffient since the meal will
expand and 4 quarts is the capacity when brim full.
 
Hope this helps in your decision making process.
 
Happy Trails,
 
Roy Fisher

-----Original Message-----
From: philmont@troop47.com [mailto:philmont@troop47.com] On Behalf Of JC
Lewis
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:17 PM
To: philmont List Member
Subject: [philmont] Cooking Water

If you put all the entrée packages in one pot for dinner for 12, what’s
the most number of cups of water that would be called for in the
instructions? (Please don’t hijack this thread down the path that it’s
best not to put all the water called for in the pot; we know that. We
also don’t need to know which specific dinner requires the most cups of
water. We just need your best, educated guess about how many cups would
be called for at the most, per the instructions. We’re doing a pot-size
analysis.)

Jerry Lewis

2007 611-I-2

Troop 303, McKinney TX

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