Budget-Friendly Bulk Cooking: How Chefs Can Cut Costs for Big Parties
The easiest way to cook for many people is to choose simple, one-pot dishes that can be prepared in advance, such as casseroles, stews, or soups. Do you think so? Let’s discuss how chefs can cut costs for big parties. Creative ways to reduce expenses without sacrificing quality.
How to save money by batch cooking?
Straight to the point, we will show you how to save money by batch cooking.
Cook in quantity. Don’t just cook to individual orders; cook in large amounts. Make tons of pasta and plenty of sauce, bake loaves of garlic bread, cut them into smaller pieces, prepare tons of salad, and place a few different dressings in plastic carafes for people to use.
Everyone loves mac and cheese, pasta salad (Seriously, make a few boxes of the right pasta, dice some onion, peppers, add light mayo, and whip away!)
Cut and boil some potatoes, hard-boil some eggs, chop some celery, add light mayo, dice the potato quarters, and add a little mustard, and bam: Potato Salad.
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If there’s a grill, pork is the cheapest, but chicken drumsticks, hot dogs, and hamburgers/cheeseburgers can also be sold. If you want to go on a lower budget, make pork cubes next to pearl onions, cut bell peppers, and put some semi-sweet sausage (1 pkg of 6) on there, too. And cost with some BBQ sauce…. the key is to cut the meat and veggies together so they will all cook evenly. Nothing is worse than when you get burnt, overcooked veggies because the pork was still pink…
All you need to do is several lbs. of seasoned meat. Chop some lettuce to make shredded lettuce. The rest: cheese, cubed tomatoes, sauce, all come canned and/or in bottles. Buy 2 or 3 packages of flour tortillas.
You can also feed 6–10 people and add extravagantly with white queso, chicken strips and peppers (for fajitas), some cooked tilapia for fish tacos, black beans and/or garbanzo beans, and so on.
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How to feed a large group cheaply?
For a large gathering of say 1000 people, the easiest food to make is whatever your caterer wants to provide. But if you are not a professional cook with the facilities to accommodate that many people, you do not want to try feeding a group like that.
Suppose you made something utterly simple, like chicken broth. Suppose you gave each guest a cup, eight ounces, of broth. That’s 125 gallons of broth— probably the biggest pot in your kitchen holds just a few quarts.
Then you need 1000 soup bowls and 1000 spoons. So you can see that if you are serving anything complicated, things will get out of hand quickly.
So, how do you solve that asap? Get a private chef on ikook to do this cooking for you. When it comes to the large event, we do a premium event with your budget.
Getting Ready To Host a Large Event
The basic tips are:
- Set it up so guests can do as much work as possible without ruining the point. You gotta gamify this a bit. Like, don’t make a bunch of burgers! Cook a bunch of burgers, provide them with buns & toppings, and let them assemble. The problem here is it’s hard to determine how much of what you need. Generally, I suggest 10–15% extra on everything. Less work, more usage.
- Cook as much as you can well in advance. Pasta should be cooked chilled, oiled & portioned, fish should be placed in hotel pans with seasoning and water ready for the oven. Etc.
- Have a clearly defined plan of service that EVERYONE involved knows. The less confusion involved, the less room for mishap.
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How About Hiring a Private Chef
You know cooking is stressful, and you don’t want to do it, so it’s not nice, right? So I think you should consider our offer at iCook, and get on a call with our support.
Let’s make a great dish for you and create an event for you that you will be proud of at the end of the day. Book a private chef on the ikook app today.
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