On 2015-09-06 23:47:25 +0000, cshenk said:

>> Nope, one cook for each 24 hour duty stint...

[ mercy snip ]

> BULLSHIT. Calling you on this. You assume no one is familair with
> Navy ships here and will believe that balderdash you are spewing.
> Hopefully they will not.
>
> Folks, by the time they had machines to peel the potatoes, they
> *reduced* the galley staff to 20 for a crew of 300.

I would think most home-cooks (the vast majority of us here), can
figure out that a single cook for 300 people over a 24 hours period of
time, even with a couple of mess cooks would be very very difficult.
Like "walking to Mars" difficult.