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Ok... Well here goes. First its important to know that I'm a bit nerdy and love food science and science in general.

I'm also big into efficiency and process improvement.... And I use a LOT of stock.

So here was my problem: I have two large stock pots (12 & 16 qt) which will yield about 14 quarts or one canner load of stock and the process takes 12-16 hours. I wanted more stock without drastically increasing time. (btw, start to finish is about 2 hours for a canner load)

So here we are... My friends and I are sitting on the patio at a hotel in Atlantic City, its a beautiful night, so the patio if full of guests. Of course we're all sipping our favorite beverage and chatting. At my table, I have a biologist, a physicist and a handful of engineers. So I present my challenge to the group. The biologist starts out with how quickly we need to get the water to a boil and what temps we need to simmer the stock, so we don't get any bad bugs. The engineers break out their computers and start looking for pots and calculating what the target quantity should be. Once we determined that we wanted to target 3-4 canner loads (two canners so 28 quarts per load). The physicist, breaks out his calculator to figure out time over temp to get the mass water and solids from 40 degrees (fridge temp) to boiling, so we could calculate what burner we needed. After a few minutes, we negotiate back to 3 loads so a 160qt pot and 150,000 btu rocket burner. Propane powered to go along with my other toys on the deck.I jump on amazan and order the stuff and as I'm placing the order realize that everyone on the patio had stopped chatting and are all staring at us. They thought (as you probably do) that we were a bunch of total loons.:lau:lau:lau:oops:

So here's the stock pot I use... Last time I made stock, I got 92 quarts.
 
rjohns39 said:
Sorry folks... @Flashpoint had more background, So I typed it free hand. btw, I'm also very lazy...:oops:
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Oh god, you mean this isn't normal behavior??? I'm married to a former Submarine Nuke Mechanic.... when these guys herd.... :confused:

But I also work at a company that builds submarines. I'm surrounded by those types all the time...
 

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