I mean, everyone who wants to cook does at least one fish every Thanksgiving here. If they don’t want to cook, they at least have to grab a good pugliese or cheap bottle of Bordeaux
The time and effort economy is what gets a lot of us even more than the financial or attention economies on this one. Cooking is hard, but CHOOSING what to cook is even harder. And having to cover all bases and try to have multiple recipes finish somewhat around the same timeframe, I could hardly imagine pulling that off without some backup on the team to pull some punches for me in the late game
Potluck style is the way to go. In addition to what the other posters have mentioned, you get better food that way too: people cook the dish they have the best recipe for. People who are shit cooks can host or clean or w/e.
Get the best everyone has to offer.
That, and I think a lot of families dont want to put 100% of the stress on one person.
Yeah and also why can’t the uncle do something for a change? The aunt used to be at home all day now she has to.go.to work AND cook for everyone?
I saw a post recently on lemmy that said to include the boys in the cooking and cleaning instead of just the girls. So they get taught that it’s not only a woman’s job to cook and clean. I thought that was just swell
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I do host thanksgiving for more than 20 usually, we do an all-comers meal, whoever wants to come to eat can. It’s fun and I enjoy it and yep everyone brings something but even so it is expensive for certain. Legitimately thankful that we can do this for everyone. But even when I was younger people coming to Thanksgiving brought something, is that not a usual expectation if you are going to a party? At least bring wine or ice or something.
My aunt always hosted but we always brought something to share, usually something that was precooked or didn’t need cooking, like salad or dessert or even just cheese and crackers for an appetizer or something. She still made a ton of food but she didn’t have to do it all on her own, and we all drove a bit to get there; we were the furthest I think at about 2.5 hours away. It was my favorite holiday; just food and family. But I am aware that my family is pretty functional as families go. I am very lucky.
And also cooking for 20 persons is incredibly hard, the spices and seasoning got exponentially higher as portion size increases, and cook time is wildly different than cooking for 4 persons. People these day just doesn’t have the time to master these skill.
I do occasionally cook for larger groups, and you need entirely different techniques. At home, you don’t need to account for the time the water spends between 70 and 100 degrees because that’s a minute at most. When you’ve got a hundred liters of water, that suddenly becomes very relevant. If you set your timer for 10 of actual boiling, your pasta will resemble porridge.
Also, I don’t personally own cooking gear to make food for 20+ people.
Why do spices scale exponentially?
Yeah, I don’t think that’s right. You follow the recipe and just adjust for portion numbers, the spices don’t scale any differently than that.
Water contain(of the ingredient), size of cooking pot, that kind of thing. Of course it won’t be big difference, you just have to adjust accordingly, sometime more sometime less. “exponentially” isn’t a good way to put it but you get the idea. It depend on the thing you cook.
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