Beans in 5 gallon pot

128 oz in a gallon
640 oz in 5 gallons

8 oz serving = 80
10 oz serving = 64

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wait......you're doing white beans as a "main dish"?

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White beans and ham over rice was our main dish for supper last night.

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Probably cook five pounds in that pot but others may know better. I cook the 4 lb bags of Camelia red beans in a big stock pot so I'd guess at least five.

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A pound of red beans makes 8 cups, so you could get almost 10 pounds of beans in a 5 gallon pot. 2 pounds per gallon. Depends on how much meat goes in the pot, though.

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I'd guess a 5 gallon pot would easily hold 15 pounds of beans with fixins.

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Not a chance.

There's a difference between "holding" and "cookin" 15 lbs of beans.

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Spilled

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Never cooked beans? They tend to grow just a bit during the process.

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A 5 gallon bucket holds 34 pounds of beans...want to rethink your not a chance comment?

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Not a chance.

2 pounds of dry beans makes 1 gallon cooked with 1 1/2 pounds of meat. I've done the measuring.

2 lbs of dry beans is 5 cups. When cooked it becomes 16 cups.

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I've come to add some scientific clarification. 1 pound of dry beans will yield 6 cups of cooked beans. So 15 pounds of dry beans will yield 90 cups of cooked beans or 5.675 gallons.

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I disagree. I cooked 1 pound of dry beans with 3/4 pound of sliced sausage. When cooked, it measured almost exactly 8 cups with a medium consistency.

I guess I may have to do a Red Beans and Rice calculator after all.

Pretty windy up in this bean thread.

I can cook a 2 lb camellia white or red in my 7.25 quart LeCrueset and it is FULL. That may have say 3 links of sausage.

So I'm still saying 5 pounds. Not only do beans expand and you have volume in meat but no one seems to realize you have volume of liquid as well. 6 pounds and you will be at the brim and stirring hot arse white beans all over your no wax floor.