How many potatoes to make today for 10 people?

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Brain is fried on scaling things up. How many or weight would you make for 10 people??

I’d have about 5 or 6 small to medium ones. There is a shit load of other stuff of course to choose from but I won’t eat some of it like the sprouts or the cauli cheese etc.
Someone upthread said they were basing it on 2 potatoes per adult and 1 per child because there were other types of potato on offer - who cares about other types of potatoes on a Christmas dinner, roast potatoes are the only ones worth eating 😂
I’d be incredibly disappointed with 2 roast potatoes 😱😱😱

I’d much rather have the roast potatoes (with lashings of gravy) than anything else on the plate tbh.

At least 50. I would be aghast at only 2 or 3 potatoes each. 😯

I always cook more roast potatoes than we need because we like having loads leftover. I've peeled and parboiled a 2.5kg bag. I normally eat 4. Adult DC 6+ each

I would be very disappointed if there were less/fewer(?) than 6 roasties for me (two large potatoes each cut into thirds as a previous wise poster said). Otoh my husband is cooking and he is lean and doesn’t like potatoes so I may be in for a sad time of it 😢

I would say six medium roast potatoes per person in my house. Each potato would be two mouthfuls so I would say a fairly decent portion without being over the top.

I find threads like this fascinating though. Sometimes I see friends post photos of Sunday roasts throughout the year and they have the tiniest little portions with a couple of slices of meat, 2-3 potatoes and gaps on the plate! Wtf is up with that? You can't have gaps with a roast dinner!

@Soontobe60

Halved or quartered potatoes itms depending on size

There is a limit to the amount of baking sheets etc

I'm going to try Mary Berry with semolina if I can be bothered

I've had enough already

For 10 people I'd do probably around 50 depending on size when cut up. I tend to do smaller ones because they cook more quickly. We usually have new potatoes as well, but I'm not bothering this year.

I’m cooking for 12. I have 3 bags of potatoes I will do them all and we might have enough when I’ve destroyed the ones that have welded themselves to the bottom of the roasting trays.

absolutely fucking shit loads

Well I'd have 3 roasties, others at my table will have more but others will have the same. Assuming you're doing all the trimmings I'd do a maximum of 50, that's more than anyone needs in addition to all the other stuff!

Love mumsnet to the rescue. I really don’t think I would have done enough.
Love this mathematically correct answer!
Now to work out which recipe, Jamie Oliver one without the final smash down?

@Proudofitbabe Three roasties not as in three potatoes but three of the segmented, final roasted product? I'd be disappointed with that for Christmas dinner, but the OP says today so I'm not sure if it is for Christmas dinner or not.

@tulips27 yep 3 plenty for me - with parsnips, Yorkshire, mash it's probably the one stodgy beige thing I'll leave on the plate! But as I say 50 means 5 each, and there'll be others like me who don't have that many, hence the roastie lovers would get 6.

Oh, I see. I've never had mash as a part of Christmas dinner, either from family or made it myself. So more of an emphasis on roasties, I suppose.

Yes my DH just said - surely the answer depends on what you've got with it!! We are obviously fat fucks who have alllllll the beige, so don't need as much of each

I aim for three or four pieces per person, depending on size. I portion them as I go i.e peel some potatoes, cut them to the right sizes, place them in piles, one pile per person. Then I peel some more and portion them out.

At the very least 5 each. We’re cooking for 8 and have done 7 each.

I’d plan for 250g per person (peeled weight) and there would probably be leftovers but depends on appetites.

3?

Three???

Fuck me.

I have about 20. I’m not joking. Roast potatoes are the best thing ever. We are a family of 5. I make an obscene amount of roast potatoes.

Whatever you think is enough, double it. They're the best bit!

I think people need to clarify if they are talking about potatoes or roast potatoes. Our potatoes this year were big enough to need quartering so 1 potato = 4 roast potatoes. So when people are saying 2 per person do they mean 2 whole potatoes (approx 8 roasties) or 2 roasties (approx half a potato)?

Either way I'm making 3kg worth of roasties for 4 adults and 2 small kids.

"2 each for adults, 1 each for kids"
TWO ROAST POTATOES? at Christmas??

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