Breakfast Tacos for 120
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Last: 2 yr ago by Bradley.Kohr.II
On the prep work - are you planning to hand out premade/prewrapped tacos, or are they coming down a line?
If the latter - I'd just pre-make a few big batches of filler in tinfoil containers and just scoop into the tortillas as they say what they want. Egg+bacon, egg+chorizo, egg. Then let em add their cheese & whatever else you want to jazz it up with.
If you want to just hand out tinfoil goodness: you'll have to balance between soggy tacos and dry eggs. And you have to work the 'who gets what' issue (and like was mentioned - corn tortillas or other snowflake demands would make for even more hassle).
If the latter - I'd just pre-make a few big batches of filler in tinfoil containers and just scoop into the tortillas as they say what they want. Egg+bacon, egg+chorizo, egg. Then let em add their cheese & whatever else you want to jazz it up with.
If you want to just hand out tinfoil goodness: you'll have to balance between soggy tacos and dry eggs. And you have to work the 'who gets what' issue (and like was mentioned - corn tortillas or other snowflake demands would make for even more hassle).
We do this all the time @ work (100+ employees)
We have 3 of these:
Bake the bacon the night before (10 large packages of Kennedy's) and brown 5 large rolls of Owen's.
Crack and mix 60-80 eggs and get those Tupperware juice containers to hold the beaten egg.
On the morning of the breakfast we toss the bacon and sausage in Warmers about 30 mins before serving. Then start scrambling eggs and dumping in the 3rd warmer. You can start and finish serving 100 people in 45 mins, but have to prep the night before
We have 3 of these:
Bake the bacon the night before (10 large packages of Kennedy's) and brown 5 large rolls of Owen's.
Crack and mix 60-80 eggs and get those Tupperware juice containers to hold the beaten egg.
On the morning of the breakfast we toss the bacon and sausage in Warmers about 30 mins before serving. Then start scrambling eggs and dumping in the 3rd warmer. You can start and finish serving 100 people in 45 mins, but have to prep the night before
Y'all get fired up over tacos.
Before you do anything. Call a caterer. Call the largest Mexican restaurant you know. Get pricing or ask for donation.
I imagine this is coming from booster club money.
I imagine this is coming from booster club money.
jtp01 said:
Sunday night I made up a batch of breakfast tacos for my son to eat before two a days and one for in between. Coaches wanting him to eat 12-1600 calories before noon.
I used 18 eggs, 1# of sausage, 1.5# bacon and about 1# of cheese. This netted 12 breakfast tacos (burritos). Next batch I'll add refried beans and hash browns. And stretch a little further.
My fav breakfast taco hack is using tater tot casserole from TRUTH Bbq, refried beans, then the egg/protein mix, cheese, hot sauce.
As for the amounts...several logical options alreasy mentioned.
Always the most goodest
I can imagine mixing protein powder in my eggs
FIDO 96 said:
We do this all the time @ work (100+ employees)
We have 3 of these:
Bake the bacon the night before (10 large packages of Kennedy's) and brown 5 large rolls of Owen's.
Crack and mix 60-80 eggs and get those Tupperware juice containers to hold the beaten egg.
On the morning of the breakfast we toss the bacon and sausage in Warmers about 30 mins before serving. Then start scrambling eggs and dumping in the 3rd warmer. You can start and finish serving 100 people in 45 mins, but have to prep the night before
Great info here.
Question..
Are you saying 60-80 eggs for 100 people or 60-80 eggs X 3?
At the beginning, you said we have 3 of these...
3 breakfasts?
3 batches?
3 what ?
I appreciate all the other info as well. We may decide to buy out, but we don't have a taco place near us.
We should have the use of a 20+ sq foot flat top grill trailer and several dads have Blackstone grills as well. I do like the idea of pre-cooking sausage / bacon and probably hashbrowns / potatoes.
This is weeks out just trying to plan for food and manpower required.
Thanks.
The Lost Hondo said:
Did anyone else think we were going to be playing a game show?
I assume dog food is in the second round?
At scale, I'd multiply the number of tacos you need by .80 so for 200 tacos count on 160 eggs
I'd still recommend another alternative now knowing your situation. I'll make breakfast casseroles when we have family in town. A half-size steam table pan will feed about 10-12. You can easily fit 2 in a standard oven. Pick a recipe and have 5 people make 2 pans each. They can be assembled the night before and baked off in the morning. You can bring tortillas and let kids scoop their own or just eat as is as a casserole. This will be infinitely easier than trying to make 200+ tacos on location.
Each pan will need 12 eggs, pint of whole milk, 1 package sausage (or chorizo), bag of simply potatoes, and 12oz cheese. If this is of interest to you, I'll post a detailed recipe. You could also do half French toast casseroles for variety.
I'd still recommend another alternative now knowing your situation. I'll make breakfast casseroles when we have family in town. A half-size steam table pan will feed about 10-12. You can easily fit 2 in a standard oven. Pick a recipe and have 5 people make 2 pans each. They can be assembled the night before and baked off in the morning. You can bring tortillas and let kids scoop their own or just eat as is as a casserole. This will be infinitely easier than trying to make 200+ tacos on location.
Each pan will need 12 eggs, pint of whole milk, 1 package sausage (or chorizo), bag of simply potatoes, and 12oz cheese. If this is of interest to you, I'll post a detailed recipe. You could also do half French toast casseroles for variety.
Breakfast casseroles are money for sure
This is the best idea I've heard so far.
Machacado a la Mexicana or gtfo
As others have mentioned, don't forget about the gluten free option. And prepare some vegetarian tacos and vegan tacos. Don't want anyone feeling left out.
Make sure your serving station is wheelchair accessible as well.
Wrap your tacos in foil to keep them warm. Print out little labels with a description so the vegans know what's up. Don't forget braille on the labels. Get some little pride flag stickers to put on some also.
Make sure your serving station is wheelchair accessible as well.
Wrap your tacos in foil to keep them warm. Print out little labels with a description so the vegans know what's up. Don't forget braille on the labels. Get some little pride flag stickers to put on some also.
Cactus going full hijack. Not sure you could hijack a taco thread but he did it.
SteveBott said:
Cactus going full hijack. Not sure you could hijack a taco thread but he did it.
Guessing you'd be cool if he prepped these tacos in a household that contained peanuts and didn't disclose it?
Nope. Peanuts are not to be messed with. I do love them though
I've started using thick cut bacon cooked in the oven for breakfast tacos. You put a whole piece of bacon on the tortilla. Then you sprinkle some cheese on it. Gives the taco some structural support.
Preferred breakfast taco salsa.
But recently started mixing green chile in with the eggs.
We keep one in the fridge at all times and a spare in the pantry, though we do prefer the "medium" over the mild.
Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Preferred breakfast taco salsa.
Once your taste buds can handle a little heat, this is the best I've found at the store
aggiez03 said:FIDO 96 said:
We do this all the time @ work (100+ employees)
We have 3 of these:
Bake the bacon the night before (10 large packages of Kennedy's) and brown 5 large rolls of Owen's.
Crack and mix 60-80 eggs and get those Tupperware juice containers to hold the beaten egg.
On the morning of the breakfast we toss the bacon and sausage in Warmers about 30 mins before serving. Then start scrambling eggs and dumping in the 3rd warmer. You can start and finish serving 100 people in 45 mins, but have to prep the night before
Great info here.
Question..
Are you saying 60-80 eggs for 100 people or 60-80 eggs X 3?
At the beginning, you said we have 3 of these...
3 breakfasts?
3 batches?
3 what ?
I appreciate all the other info as well. We may decide to buy out, but we don't have a taco place near us.
We should have the use of a 20+ sq foot flat top grill trailer and several dads have Blackstone grills as well. I do like the idea of pre-cooking sausage / bacon and probably hashbrowns / potatoes.
This is weeks out just trying to plan for food and manpower required.
Thanks.
Sorry. We have 3 of those warmer/roasters. One for bacon, one for sausage and one for eggs. You can wrap tortillas in foil and place in each of them too. We use 72 or so eggs to feed 100 people. We do add some milk to our eggs to thin them. I feed an office of sales and construction people and we have fruit trays, etc to go with it so 72 eggs (6 doz) is plenty. Here is the container for egg mixture
Some of the replies had me hearing Roy D Mercer: "How big a boy are you?"Quote:
To the guy that said 20 pounds of bacon for 200 tacos... you realize there are 16 standard slices of bacon per pound right? So that would be 320 slices. Bacon is the most expensive purchase and that could be way too much unless you're just stuffing them with bacon.
Even with my rather large high school appetite, I quickly learned there was a limit to how much heavy greasy food I should eat on a day that involved suiting up. Nothing like having to stiff-leg it to the boys' room and try to get the knotted web belt, laced up trousers, and pad girdle off in time to avert disaster.
If you are not absolutely deadset on breakfast tacos, but want the same general kind of meal, you could do the breakfast version of this Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie Recipe - BettyCrocker.com Get a bunch of large disposable aluminum roasting pans, swap out the ground beef for 3/4 breakfast sausage and 1/4 chorizo, add some diced and browned potatoes, and profit!
Harry Lime said:Some of the replies had me hearing Roy D Mercer: "How big a boy are you?"Quote:
To the guy that said 20 pounds of bacon for 200 tacos... you realize there are 16 standard slices of bacon per pound right? So that would be 320 slices. Bacon is the most expensive purchase and that could be way too much unless you're just stuffing them with bacon.
Even with my rather large high school appetite, I quickly learned there was a limit to how much heavy greasy food I should eat on a day that involved suiting up. Nothing like having to stiff-leg it to the boys' room and try to get the knotted web belt, laced up trousers, and pad girdle off in time to avert disaster.
FIDO*98* said:
I can imagine mixing protein powder in my eggs
Not protein powder....protein as in sausage or bacon or smoked ham or rib meat (whichever is selection du jour)
Always the most goodest
jftx04 said:FIDO*98* said:
I can imagine mixing protein powder in my eggs
Not protein powder....protein as in sausage or bacon or smoked ham or rib meat (whichever is selection du jour)
Just call it meat. It's a pet peeve of mine when people refer to meats as protein.
Two big kettles on propane burners. Scramble eggs in one and breakfast sausage in the other.
Have a longer serving table with stacks of tortillas (larger fajita size) and plates on one end and dump several big bags of cheese into a big bowl on the other.
Assembly line style serving. Line up at the table and grab a plate, napkin and tortilla. Have someone scoop a serving spoon of eggs into the tortilla then someone serve a spoon of sausage into it. Kid then walks to the end of the table and adds cheese if they want and grabs a drink out of a cooler right there. After everyone gets one, come back for a second.
1.5 eggs per person and I'd probably do 30 pounds of breakfast sausage.
I'd expect an average of 1.726 tacos/person.
Have a longer serving table with stacks of tortillas (larger fajita size) and plates on one end and dump several big bags of cheese into a big bowl on the other.
Assembly line style serving. Line up at the table and grab a plate, napkin and tortilla. Have someone scoop a serving spoon of eggs into the tortilla then someone serve a spoon of sausage into it. Kid then walks to the end of the table and adds cheese if they want and grabs a drink out of a cooler right there. After everyone gets one, come back for a second.
1.5 eggs per person and I'd probably do 30 pounds of breakfast sausage.
I'd expect an average of 1.726 tacos/person.
About to make a few breakfast tacos with bacon, egg, cheese and B1-83 beans as a kicker.
Will let yall know.
Will let yall know.
A) Liquid eggs suck
B) Admittedly, I have access to an egg breaker.
That cheeseburger quiche idea looks like a good idea - as would making a bunch of casseroles, with some portion scoops, and have the boys build the tacos themselves.
Most fast food places share a prep kitchen for providing chopped vegetables, etc. (lots of e Coli in vegetables)
Maybe see if you can buy some cilantro/a bunch of pick from one of those?
Or, call a taco truck to see how much it costs to have one come out.
You're going to need about 75-150# of hot food. A pig picking would be easier.
B) Admittedly, I have access to an egg breaker.
That cheeseburger quiche idea looks like a good idea - as would making a bunch of casseroles, with some portion scoops, and have the boys build the tacos themselves.
Most fast food places share a prep kitchen for providing chopped vegetables, etc. (lots of e Coli in vegetables)
Maybe see if you can buy some cilantro/a bunch of pick from one of those?
Or, call a taco truck to see how much it costs to have one come out.
You're going to need about 75-150# of hot food. A pig picking would be easier.
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