Dutch Oven One Pot Meals for Feeding a Crowd Every Time
Why a Dutch Oven Is the Crowd-Feeding Secret Nobody Talks About The first time I cooked for twenty people, I made the classic mistake: four different dishes, three burners, two sheet pans in the oven, and a kitchen that looked like a crime scene by 6 p.m. The food was fine. My stress level was not. The cleanup took longer than the meal. The second time, I put a 7-quart Dutch oven on the stove at noon, built a beef and bean chili inside it, and spent the afternoon watching a game while it simmered. Same twenty people, one pot, one cutting board, one wooden spoon. The food was better. I was rested. Cleanup was done in fifteen minutes. ...