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title: How To Use a 6.75-quart Dutch Oven with Glorious One-Pot Meals
date: 2013-05-29T21:24:39Z
modified: 2013-05-29T21:24:39Z
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categories:
  - Glorious One-Pot Meals
tags:
  - 6.75-quart Dutch oven recipes
  - cast iron Dutch ovens
  - Glorious One-Pot Meals
  - Le Creuset
author: Elizabeth
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_Reader question: I just bought your cookbook after reading about it in Momentum Magazine. My Le Crueset pot is 6.75 qt.so how much should I increase the ingredients? 4 times?? and the cooking time?? you only list a 5.5-6 qt pot on page 12. Thank you. ~Janet from Lima, OH_

Hi Janet! Thanks for writing and your interest in [**_Glorious One-Pot Meals_**](http://www.gloriousonepotmeals.com "glorious one pot meals").[![one pot meals recipes Dutch oven](http://elizabethyarnell.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/liz_gopm-new.jpg "Glorious One-Pot Meals cookbook")

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The general rule of thumb is that you need one quart of [Dutch oven](http://www.gloriousonepotmeals.com/about/q-and-a.htm#dutch "cast iron Dutch oven") for every person you plan to feed. So, the recipes are written for a 2-quart Dutch oven and feed 2 people. Generally, we’d say that a 6-quart Dutch oven would feed 6 people and you’d triple the recipe and [increase the cooking time](http://elizabethyarnell.com/effortlesseating/2013/04/perfect-timing-for-glorious-one-pot-meals/ "Glorious One Pot Meal cooking times") by around 20 minutes.

Because your pot is closer to 7 quarts, you could feasibly increase the recipes by 3.5 times, so that instead of 2 chicken breasts, for example, you’d use 7, and increase the cooking time by closer to 25-30 minutes.

In reality, I usually find that most people eat a little less than 1 quart of cooked food, and a 3.5-quart Dutch oven, for example, easily feeds 4-5 people. A fully-loaded 6.75-quart Dutch oven would likely feed 9 people. As my pots get larger, too, I might increase the amount of protein and use more fish, for instance, while using less rice than if I were strictly tripling the recipe. One of the great things about the [Glorious One-Pot Meals cooking method](http://www.gloriousonepotmeals.com/about/unique.htm "Glorious One Pot Meals infusion cooking method") is that you can make the meal the way _you_ want to make it without compromising the finished product.

Please realize that as pots get larger than 5.5-quarts and the volume of food in the pot increases as such, it becomes even more important to ensure the oven is fully preheated to 450 F before putting the full pot in, and to [follow your nose to know when the meal is ready](http://elizabethyarnell.com/effortlesseating/2013/04/perfect-timing-for-glorious-one-pot-meals/ "cooking by sense of smell"). I use a [stand-alone oven thermometer](http://elizabethyarnell.com/effortlesseating/2010/01/have-you-checked-your-oven-temperature/ "oven thermometer") to validate my oven temperature.

Remember, too, that you can still cook a Glorious One-Pot Meals recipe for 2 in a larger-than-2-quart cast iron Dutch oven.

Happy cooking! ~Elizabeth