Part of it will depend on the size of the potatoes. I would estimate about one medium potato per person and add a bit more. 8 sounds about right. The normal serving is considered to be 4 ounces.
1 Gallon of potato salad feeds about 30 people, so 3.33 Gallons.
Here are some of the things that are cooked with potato: baked potato mashed potato vichyssoise potato salad potato fries potato chips New potatoes roast potatoes sweet potatoes
120 lbs of potatoes plus the others ingredient you will add will make about 160 lbs of potato salad just enough. Have fun enjoy life.
You can drain the water and let them sit on the counter for about twenty minutes. When they are cool enough to handle you can make the potato salad. If you put them in water the potatoes will absorb more water and get mushy. If you put them in the refrigerator they will be kind of dried out and your potato salad won't be very creamy. I prefer making it with warm potatoes and then refrigerate the potato salad.
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To make cheesy potato casserole most recipes require about 2 pounds of potatoes to feed 8 people. If you are feeding 150 people the recipe would need to be made 19 times over and require 38 pounds of potatoes.
Generally speaking, 5 lbs of potato salad will fee 30 people. 12 people would be a little over half of that, so around 2.5 lbs of potato salad.
Go on and cook them and make a small potatoe salad or some mashed potatoes.
Depends what else you put into it. I would make about 130 pounds of salad from 100 pounds potato as I add eggs, onion, bell peppers etc.
You can use potatoes to make so many yummy dishes! If you want to steer clear of the usual mashed, baked, or boiled potatoes, you can try potato salad, Hasselback potatoes, scalloped potatoes, or try frying them to make delicious chips!
A good rule of thumb with any potato dish is 1 potato per person. This always works because some will eat less.
If you are making the potato salad, start with the potatoes. 25 pounds of potatoes will make moderate servings for 100.40 pounds will make generous servings for 100, but can easily serve 120.If the potato salad is pre-made, you will need 4 to 4 1/2 gallons to serve 100.