Can you triple a recipe if you're cooking for more people?

Yes, for the most part, you can simply scale ingredients up or Down. Salt, herbs and spices usually call for being added to taste (scaling does not always work). Flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and yeast do not scale as well and it may be better to make dishes containing large amounts of these in separate batches. Eggs are also difficult: increasing the number of eggs in a largely egg-based recipe can cause them to cook too long, becoming rubbery.

If you are making your dish in a single batch, you will probably need to use a bigger pan/ dish. If this is of different dimensions to that you usually use for the recipe you may have to adjust temp. and cooking time.

Deeper Depth - Increase the cooking time and slightly decrease the temperature.

Shallower Depth - Decrease the cooking time and slightly decrease the temperature.

The above may sound a bit daunting but, for the most part, changes are not drastic and scaling will work pretty well. If you are increasing the recipe by a large amount, I would suggest cooking in separate batches (it will also mean there is less passing around a long table). Tripling the amount of ingredients would mean each serving was slightly less but most recipe portions are quite generous and it is better to multiply by 3 than 3.25 (which might be difficult).

Good luck with your cooking.

Baking is a science - the recipe has most likely been created with specific pan sizes and temperatures and times in mind to get the perfect result - if you triple the recipe, try to get the dough in the exact same pans and they should all the done in the original baking time (depending on the accuracy of your oven) Fifteen more minutes maybe, at the most.

the only thing to keep in mind if you are multiplying a recipe is the cooking time. If you make 3 individual meatloafs in the regular size pan, then cooking time should be the same. if you put all the meat together into one pan, it will take longer to cook.

Tripling A Recipe

It's just that easy :) Do you have enough loaf pans or will you make just one big pan of meat loaf? That would be my only concern.