Fried Chicken for 150
LaWanda
10/05/09 		I need to cook fried chicken for 150 people.I would like to cook it in the turkey fryer,it needs to be ready at 12 noon and I live 60 miles away from the venue.How long would it takes to cook each batch of chicken?
I'm cooking other items but I want the chicken to be served hot.If I need to reheat the chicken I plan to put it on a rack in a hot ovn,would this be okay? Any other ideas?
ellen
10/06/09 		Hi, LaWanda,
Under these circumstance I absolutely would do oven fried chicken on site, there is no safe way to transport it hot and tasty, and the one turkey fryer is not enough cooking space to complete it in a timely fashion on site.
Also 300 pieces of chicken is almost 38 chickens, that is way more than 1 rack, or even one oven's worth.
You might want to consider having it dropped off hot from a local fried chicken restaurant? Safe, quick, hot, and not too expensive in large amounts.
Delina
10/09/09 		Catering for 150-180 people
I am catering for a Halloween Dance for 150-180 people.
The menu I am doing is:
Beef Stroganoff
Roast Chicken(quarters)
Parisienne potatoes
Caeser's salad
I need to know the quantity of Beef, Chicken,potatoes and Rommaine lettuce I would need to buy.
Thanks
ellen
10/09/09 		As I have explained before, this is a site for family and volunteer cooks, as I can't be responsible for paid planning. For pros, I recommend chef2chef.com and cheftalk.com.

If this were a family party, you would use the plan for 100 tables to calculate the salad and potatoes. For the mixed entree, you want to end up with 5 ounces of cooked beef plus 1 piece of chicken per person. A quarter is 2 pieces. Assuming you are using a tender sliced beef, 1 pound boneless raw for every 3 people would be OK with the chicken.