"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:13:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
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>>>>Tonight I made another big pot of bean with bacon soup.
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>>> Let's see.
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>>> And what do you call a "big" pot?
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>>I think it's 3 quarts. It's enough for me to have soup for the week.
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> Small servings, very small servings... I use a 28 oun ce soup bowl and
> usually fill it half way again... of course my soup is an entire meal.
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> Three qts, that's a small pot, a very small pot for bean soup, and
> Ibet you don't fill it to the brim, bet you only make 2 1/2 qts at
> most... it's hardly worth cooking less than 8 quarts of soup,
> especially bean soup. It takes just as long to prepare a large pot of
> soup as a small pot... and soup freezes well. I'd reheat soup in a
> three qt pot but I'd never make less than 8 qts of soup, and most
> times I use my 16 qt pot.

Maybe it's bigger than that. I don't really know. It's the Dutch oven
size. I am the only one who eats the soup. The mugs I use are 2 cup but
they are not quite filled to the top. And soup is usually my entire meal
too. I did eat bread with the soup last week because it was a vegetable
soup. Although it did have beans in it, it was not as hearty as this soup
is.

I stand corrected. I looked it up. It's 4.5 quarts.