For those of you that are in the Chicago area, there will be a small cooking competition on Sunday, September 14th. The competition will take place in Palatine and will feature ribs and or chicken. Its 25.00 to enter and is limited to only 10 total people. You can chose ribs and or chicken (25.00 for each one). It will be judged by Kevin Kolman from Weber.
I'm entered for to represent for the WKC and will be making ribs. I'll also be bringing my smoker with a few choice grills to display and promote our site a bit.
Here are couple links with the information
http://catifcharity.com/
http://catifcharity.com/Resources/Documents/CATIF-CooksFlier2014FINAL.pdf
Go Jeff! Sounds like a fun comp - something I hope to do someday. I'll be there in spirit and look forward to the results.
Good luck Jeff!
Best of luck Jeff - that is exciting! Please get pictures of the event.
Winz
Good luck Jeff, sorry I can't make this one. I would have loved to compete.
Good luck Jeff. I can't wait to see photos. ;D
Good luck Jeff!!
Hey, Good Luck Jeff.. If your ribs don't get em, your Weber display should knock it out of the park!
8)
Are you putting up a canopy?
Getting a quote on banner tomorrow
Thanks for the good luck wishes all. I'll be taking some photos of course. Will post them following the cook.
Troy, I think I'll have some sort of canopy I'll put up. Might come in handy if its hot and sunny out. I'm guessing a couple large tables under the canopy to prep on, with some display grills sprinkled in here and there.
This sounds like it will be fun! Way to represent the site too!
Go get 'em Jeff! 8)
go sick jeff
look forward to the pics
That will be a blast, looking forward to the pictures!
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That's it?
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where's the beef?
EDIT :
Ooppps....maybe it hasn't happened yet?
Quote from: 1buckie on September 13, 2014, 08:22:50 PM
That's it?
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where's the beef?
EDIT :
Ooppps....maybe it hasn't happened yet?
happening today....Sunday! This is all I'm bringing. :)
Good luck Jeff!
Knock 'em dead Jeff!
Sounds like fun! Good luck!
Good Deal.....go after it, you've got our energy with you !!!!
(disregard the "beef" comment....'till later )
Good luck and have a great time while you are at it.
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The back of the van looks like my grail list so that should impress very nicely.
So the end of a successful day is finally here. While the competition wasn't fierce, only 5 total rib competitors...I was able to win first place! There were a total of 4 people doing the judging for today. I took my time today, learned some more stuff, and turned out what I thought was a pretty good turn in box. I don't think the competition part of cooking is for me, but I'm glad I tried it once. It's a lot of time and preparation.
Here are a few pics from the day. So many people stopped to look at the grills I had on display, many questions if I painted them, are those real, is that yellow grill homemade? I laughed, but a lot of people thought the display grills were super cool. Every team that cooked ribs had 3 slabs to do, we were given baby backs. The turn in box consisted of 8 ribs (2 per judge). The rest was sold to people at the fest at 1.00 per sample (1 bone each). The just over 2 slabs I had remaining were gone within 20 minutes. Lots of positive compliments from the public. I was hoping to have a small trophy for the win, but cash was the prize today and that's never a bad thing!
Started the day with a quick rub (on the ribs) in the morning. Everything had to be prepared the day of.
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Ribs onto the smoker.
The shadow makes one of the slabs looks like its done already!
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The turn in box
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What's a party without wheelin' in the Ranger?
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Well deserved Jeff! Look like a fun time and those ribs look good enough to eat. Long day I'm sure!
That's awesome congrats!! Thanks for spreading the WKC gospel.
That's Grate !!!!
these last two pics tell a lot of the tale right there ~~~>
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What's a party without wheelin' in the Ranger?
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Ribs looked pretty danged good, too....musta been if they got swooped up that fast !!!
Glad you had fun with it !!!!
Awesome job!
Congratulations on the win and thanks for representing the WKC.
Congrats on the win!
Congrats Jeff!
That's awesome Jeff! Way to push yourself to try new things, and to take first is simply icing on the cake (or glaze on the ribs in this case)!
Congrats,
Winz
congrats jeff!
right outside the lamplighter! if i had a nickel for every... never mind can't write that stuff on the internet. :o
shit so sorry i missed this one!
Thanks everyone...it was a fun experience!
Way to go Jeff! Now get some rest. It looks like you gave it your all and won the prize.
I am very happy for you. Were all happy for you!
AJ 8)
Congratulations Jeff, sorry I missed this.