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re: Crawfish boil with 500 gallon brewery barrel?
Posted on 3/11/24 at 8:23 pm to Motorboat
Posted on 3/11/24 at 8:23 pm to Motorboat
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a 500 gallon pot can probably handle about 300 lbs. at a time. Assuming it’s filled 1/2 way with water.
Are you sure about that? I only have an 80 qt. aluminum pot and fill it halfway (10 gallons) when I do my boils and can easily put a 35 lb. sack in it.
So, if you convert 35 lbs. of crawfish in 10 gallons of water, then 250 gallons of water should easily handle 700+ lbs. of crawfish and fixings.
This post was edited on 3/11/24 at 8:24 pm
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Posted on 3/11/24 at 8:26 pm to gumbo2176
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Are you sure about that? I only have an 80 qt. aluminum pot and fill it halfway (10 gallons) when I do my boils and can easily put a 35 lb. sack in it. So, if you convert 35 lbs. of crawfish in 10 gallons of water, then 250 gallons of water should easily handle 700+ lbs. of crawfish and fixings.
I am not sure of anything but 500 gallon pots can hold a lot of crawfish.
Posted on 3/12/24 at 2:09 am to gumbo2176
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So, if you convert 35 lbs. of crawfish in 10 gallons of water, then 250 gallons of water should easily handle 700+ lbs. of crawfish and fixings.
Pretty good guesstimate. The general rule is quarts x 60%. It’s not perfect, but it gets you really close. It’s used by most boilers when figuring out how many pots they need for large boils.
So:
60q x 60% = 36lbs or 1 sack
80q x 60% = 48lbs or 1.25 sack
100q x 60% = 60lbs or about 1.5+ sacks
120q x 60% = 72lbs or 2 full sacks.
500 gallons is 2000 quarts.
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