#36 What we can Learn about Bulk Cooking from Cruise Ships and Restaurants

As busy moms, there's always something that needs cooking, there's always a meal that needs preparing, and so I'm sure you have found that bulk cooking helps with that - cooking more than one meal at a time, storing half of it, putting it in the freezer, and then the following time you only have to reheat it. I thought it would be fun to look at how cruise ships and restaurants do their bulk and their batch cooking, and just get some ideas and inspiration from them. So, let's think about bulk cooking from the perspective of a cruise ship and what we can learn from that. 

In order to do bulk cooking effectively, a lot of planning, consistency, and efficiency must go into it. I think the more you plan, the more effective it's going to be, no matter whether you're thinking about doing some batch cooking on a day to have meals for your freezer, or just bulk cooking if you're having a large event, large family over, or if you want to double up on a meal you're doing. There's a few principles that I think we can apply.