Adding extra cans like your buddy did is smart for feeding a crowd... But from my experience, you gotta bump up the spices each time or the stew gets bland. Doing that keeps the flavor rich even with all those extras.

The 2:30 crash is real, protein helps.

But I kinda miss the crunch sugar gives...

That film from the water-based mix is so normal though. Is the residue actually hurting the finish or just making extra wipe-down work? Brass is usually the easy metal to run, I've never seen gunk from coolant be a real issue. Maybe it's not the coolant's fault but something else in your setup.

Boston directories from the 1940s showed address jumps that led me to missing probate files.