If I'm doing a Pastalaya for about 20...

20 hungry men or 20 men, women and children? Either way it should make it but you might be scraping the pot if it’s all men.

Sub Trattole pasta.

For pastalaya i use 2lbs of protein to 1lb of pasta.

You need about 4lbs of pasta to feed 20 men. I would use 8lbs of protein. Get s 3lb pack of pork steaks, cube it and add that to your recipe, you'll be fine.

Good rule of thumb-

For “average” eaters -
One pound rice/pasta for every six people.
2:1 ratio meat to rice.

Yall need to clarify “meat” and “protein”. Raw meat? Sausage? To me, “meat” is raw meat (pork or chicken) and sausage is in a category by itself.

If yall are cooking a 5 gallon pot, you’re using 4-5 pounds pasta and 5 pounds rice. You should be using 8-10 pounds of raw meat and 5 pounds of sausage.

Your rice, onions, and sausage should always equal the same amount. Raw meat is double that amount for smaller pots and you can cut back for larger pots.

I tweaked for awhile before landing on:
3lb pasta
4+lb pork (temple or cut up butt)
4+lb smoked sausage

Feeds ~25 mixed crowd with no other side items. You could argue that’s too much meat, but if you let people serve themselves, the bottom of the pot will look like a vegetarian dish.

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~25 mixed crowd with no other side items.

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Just a green a salad, and of course watermelon and cantaloupes, since it's going to be 312° outside.

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Your rice, onions, and sausage should always equal the same amount. Raw meat is double that amount for smaller pots and you can cut back for larger pots.

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Huh???

Ok I’ll clarify. Meat is “total meat”. Pork and sausage together. Most do a 75/25 percent ratio on pork to sausage. So 10 lbs of rice would mean 15 lbs pork/ 5 lbs sausage. All raw.

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That's a "you" problem. Everybody in the whole world lumps the meat totals together. I cook 3:1. Three pounds of meat (pork, chicken and :gasp: sausage) to one pound of pasta...or rice if jambo.

And you wonder why you constantly get down-voted.

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Your "meat" (pork and/or chicken) will be a larger amount than your sausage. So lumping them together doesn't tell you how much pork/chicken and sausage to use.

You use a 3:1. Ok. You cook 10 pounds of rice/pasta. So that's 30 pounds of "meat/sausage". Ok... then how much sausage? 5 pounds? 10 pounds? 20 pounds? Should I use 20 pounds of sausage and 10 pounds of pork?

This is why it's not smart to combine meat and sausage.

You use a 3:1. Ok. Then why not say (like I previously suggested) that your rice/pasta will equal your sausage and then your "meat" (pork/chicken) will be double the amount? That gives someone the exact answer and doesn't leave one wondering how much of each meat to use.

How do you not understand this concept?