1 Gallon of potato salad feeds about 30 people, so 3.33 Gallons.
A fist-sized potato for each person, or the equivalent in smaller potatoes.
that would depend on how big the salad is... but maybe if it was diced like 50 g of potato for every 100g of salad :)
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
For a family reunion of 31 people, a general guideline is to plan for about ½ to 1 cup of mashed potatoes or potato salad per person. If you assume an average of ¾ cup per person, you would need approximately 23.25 cups, which is about 5.8 quarts or roughly 6 quarts of mashed potatoes or potato salad. Adjust the amount based on the group's preferences and whether you are serving other side dishes.
A good rule of thumb with any potato dish is 1 potato per person. This always works because some will eat less.
That is 87.5 pounds
Since 25 pounds feeds 100, you'll need 106 1/4 pounds of potato salad.
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.
Because they like potatoes so they invented potato salads
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.
For a potato salad serving 100 people, a general guideline is to use about 1 cup of mayonnaise for every 5 pounds of potatoes. Therefore, with 25 pounds of potatoes, you would need approximately 5 cups of mayonnaise. Adjust the amount based on personal taste and desired creaminess.
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.