What’s the maximum number of people you reckon you could cater Christmas lunch for?

[Sidebeforeself]

Comfortably I mean. Taking into account chairs, table space, oven room etc?

Eight for me

I had 15 once

12 is the max I’ve done. Could do a couple more but it wouldn’t be comfortable!

I have plenty of room it’s just chairs and tables I dont have. I refuse to let anyone eat their lunch on their knees or in staggered servings

We recently did Thanksgiving for 23. We borrowed an extra table and chairs. Without borrowing about 15.

We can seat 20 with a lot of moving furniture round, we do Xmas dinner for 12 every other year with no bother.
We did a BBQ for 40 over the summer, thankfully it did not rain!

Zero. I wouldn't know where to start.
Edit - if you type a zero and a full stop it autunumbers that to a one. Which is annoying.

DH could probably handle 15 and we could squeeze in if we include the camping furniture.

Surely you just ask guests/friends or family if they've any spare chairs or folding tables they could lend you? Or pick some up cheaply second hand then donate to charity after Christmas?

20-30 if I borrowed some chairs?

Probably 20 sitting up to the table. Another 12 if I can include eating off knees.

Well yes theres those options..but I didnt really mean that. I meant what could you do “naturally”..

In our current house? 6 (tiny!). In terms of cooking I could easily cook for 12-15 in a standard kitchen. In my parents kitchen with the aga as well as a gas oven and hob then easily 20.

4 😅 we have a tiny house

One bedroom flat here so it's enough of a squeeze with me DP and the cat.

Maybe 4?

1. Don't have a table in the dining room or any chairs.

We've got an 8 seater dining table and could squeeze in a garden table and chairs, but with a smallish oven we'd be comfortable with 8.

6 adults (table/chair space) and room for around 8 children, if they didn’t mind using the coffee table - it’s actually bigger than my dining table, but kids have to sit/kneel on the floor, which they seem to enjoy 🤷‍♀️

I could cook for more but they’d have nowhere to sit.

I can do 36 our table opens to 20. And we have trestle tables that can take another 14-16 I prob fit a third trestle (could borrow) so another 6-8. So 40. We have 40 chairs and enough plates. But at those numbers becomes issue serving the food / oven space / cleaning up etc we had 20 for lunch today that’s quite common for me.

Four. If they all like pizza.

We are having 10 but 2 are children.

I think I could do 12-14 at an absolute push.

i’ve just cooked a roast for 12. I did chicken, salmon, stuffing, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, parsnips, carrots, sprouts, green beans, broccoli and sweetcorn. I’m knackered!

I think there's a lady on mumsnet who books a church hall to fit everyone in.

I used to do 24 in the old days in the old house. Nowadays I could probably do 16 if I had to but I don’t go above 6 or 8.
I just lost the ‘oomph’ for it.
If anyone should find my ‘oomph’, please post it back cos I have become very boring without it.

I’ve done 14 at home before, I think. And fairly regularly have 10 for a meal. By 20 plates would be including the picnic ones and the camping table would be part of the run. Although I do have a big outside table and eight chairs there, so possibly 30 if I really had to. Yorkshire pudding space would be at a premium though.

once went to someone’s house for a lunch and she seated 24 around her dining room table. It was quite a house!

😀

Blimey ! That’s a small restaurant.