Depends on your tasate, but that is a lot of potato salad. Making a "regular" batch (not large) at home with about 5 lbs. of potatoes, I would add at least 5 eggs and I presume you are speaking of hard boiled eggs. (So you can do the math.) I have a German friend who soft cooks the egg (the yolk is slightly runny) and adds hers that way, not requiring as many eggs and good in flavor.
20 pounds
That depends on the recipe you use.
how many pounds of potato salad to feed 600
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.
A good rule of thumb with any potato dish is 1 potato per person. This always works because some will eat less.
Yes a little
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.
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.
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
Since 25 pounds feeds 100, you'll need 106 1/4 pounds of potato salad.
The number of potatoes needed for 500 servings of potato salad can vary based on the recipe and serving size, but a general estimate is about 0.5 pounds of potatoes per serving. For 500 servings, you would need approximately 250 pounds of potatoes. Depending on the size of the potatoes, this could translate to around 125-150 medium-sized potatoes. Always consider the specific recipe and any additional ingredients when calculating.
A fist-sized potato for each person, or the equivalent in smaller potatoes.