Party quantity planner
How much to buy for a crowd. Every step of the arithmetic is shown, and every number is labelled with where it came from — a source, your input, BBQHQ’s arithmetic, or BBQHQ’s assumption.
What this does and does not do
- One food at a time. Planning a menu means coordinating different cooking temperatures, rest windows and grate space around one serving time, and BBQHQ models none of that yet.
- Capacity for one food and two cookers. BBQHQ holds a published cooking area for a 57 cm kettle and an 18-inch kamado, and a plan dimension for exactly one food — a formed meat patty, from a USDA purchase specification. Everything else stops at the quantity, and says so rather than guessing.
- The batch count is a floor on effort, not a promise. Where a manufacturer publishes what its own grill holds, BBQHQ plans against that instead of its own geometry — Weber says thirteen burgers on a kettle where dividing the area gives twenty-eight, and the difference is spacing nobody publishes.
- Not a nutrition tool. These are catering assumptions for feeding people at a barbecue, not advice about what anybody should eat.