Jambalaya Calculator - Version 6.1 Available

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Version 6.1

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Here is a little project I've been working on - the Jambalaya Calculator.



Maybe this will help cut down on all the questions about how much rice do I need, or how big a pot do I need, or how many people can I feed, etc.

The pink cells are editable. This allows you to input the ratios you've always used, and scale them up or down for the amount of jambalaya you need. It makes it easy to play around with "what if?" scenarios.


The idea for this was for you to input a recipe and then play around with it.

Thanks to pochejp for letting me bounce some ideas off him.

And take note I did NOT include a column for tomatoes, because I didn't want to restart that war.

Very Cool!

Good stuff. Thanks for the post!

One quick question, how come there isn't any black or white pepper in this recipe?

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What amounts do you use?

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I'm definitely not the person to ask, I add a mix of white and black pepper to taste. I doubt it is ever the same. Lately, I have been following poche's recipe anyway lol so he'd be the person to ask.

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I'd definitely love to see the bbq one

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it looks like you end up with too much finished product for the size pot (ie 16 cups to a gallon but you end up with 18 cups of jambaylaya),

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Well, that's why I put that column in, so you can see if you've got too much food in the pot. This may be an indication that something needs to be tweaked.

And I don't know for sure what the ratio of pounds of raw meat to cups of cooked is. Rice is supposed to be 1 cup raw = 3 cups cooked. I don't have much experience with cooking large quantities, so maybe someone else can chime in on this point.

Another point about this. Check out "how many cups in a lb of rice?" That shouldn't even be a variable, but I couldn't get a definitive answer from internet sources. Some jambalaya cooks use 2 cups and some use 2.5. Some are in between. This way, you can use what has always worked for your method of cooking. BTW, if you change that variable to 2.0, the pot is just full.

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If you buy a 5lb bag of rice, it will be 12.5 cups of rice. That's 2.5 cups per pound.

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That's true for long grain in my experience. Short grain is more like 2.25 cups per pound. But some jambalaya cooks are doing their recipes based on 2 cups per pound.

I really would like some experienced jam cooks to post screen shots with their recipes punched in the calculator. The numbers that happen to be in the variable cells are not necessarily the best.

What I posted is not a recipe, it's the tool to calculate your recipe.

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What I posted is not a recipe,

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Use your own recipe.