"bworthey" > wrote in message
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> Okay, may seem like a silly question, but here goes, basically I'm taking
> my lasagna recipe and cooking it for 80 people. Now, I know what all and
> what amounts go into cooking ONE pan, but of course I don't want to
> cook/prepare things ONE pan at a time. So, here's my question....if I
> brown all the meat that I would be using for say 10 pans of lasagna, how
> do I know how much goes in each pan? I usually put ~1.5lbs of meat to
> each pan. So if I've just cooked 15 lbs of meat, how do I then know how
> much goes in each? This may be dumb too, 1.5lb raw is not goign to be the
> same cooked, I would think, so I couldn't just way it, so any help???

You could start by cooking 1.5 lb. of meat then weighing or measuring it to
see how much it is after cooking it. Since I'm sure you can't possibly cook
all that meat up at once.