frying seafood for 30 folks--what says the F&D broad do I need--

My thought is a total of 5-7oz per person. 40% fish, 40% shrimp and 20% oysters. I find more people eat fish and shrimp than oysters.

Shrimp are a little tricky because you buy it head on and in the shell. My guess is you loose 30% by weight to prepare them for frying.

.5 pound of protein per head, roughly. You choose the mix. I'd go 50% fish.

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They want oysters, shrimp and fish. How much of each would you buy?

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And I want to come by and eat as well. Seriously, though. Get two fryers if you can. It will speed up the process. I don't know exactly how many pounds of each you will need, but I'm guessing around 6 pounds of shrimp, 7-8 pounds of oysters and at least 30 fillets or fish. My numbers could be way off because I've never cooked that much for that many people. I'm just scaling it on cooking for the 7 people I did a seafood fry for.

When I fry seafood at my its roughly 1/2 lb per person plus fixins. I'd do white beans and rice in the place of potato salad.

For 30 adults

10 lbs fish
6 lbs shrimp
1 quart oysters
3 lbs dry white beans
5 cups raw rice
2 16 oz packages coles slaw
4 loafs of french bread

I have two of these which I highly recommend. Only thing is you probably want one on a stand. I put concert blocks under them

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Thats true, I cooked 15 gallons of white beans for a fundraiser. 5 gallon buckets stayed hot for hours.

I got to travel about 5 hours so I think I will stick with potato salad. I might make hushpuppies.

I have four baskets so I was thinking fish, shrimp, oyster, (maybe hush puppies or maybe fries) in basket four and I should be able to crank it out so that no one item is out very long and the food is hot.

Hush puppies and salad. Like a sensation salad. Make the dressing ahead of time and then easy to toss together