I might be biased because I was raised in an extended family and cook for a living, but I find 8-16 servings to be the ideal amount of cooking. You’re already doing the prep, so utilizing the equipment doesn’t require extra cleaning or extra cooking time, and if there’s fewer mouths than servings, it reduces future cooking needs.
I might be biased because I was raised in an extended family and cook for a living, but I find 8-16 servings to be the ideal amount of cooking. You’re already doing the prep, so utilizing the equipment doesn’t require extra cleaning or extra cooking time, and if there’s fewer mouths than servings, it reduces future cooking needs.
But then there’s the dreaded wasting of food when it goes bad…
Modern refrigerators and freezers solve that problem.
Freeze what you won’t eat that week, the rest goes in the fridge.
Now you’ve covered some far future meals too and you’re not gonna get bored eating the same thing for 10 meals straight