CALLING ALL CHEFS: Bring your BEST food and win!
What can you cook during our one-pot cook-off? ANYTHING that fits in one pot! Jambalaya, stir-fry, paella, goulash, etc. Make sure to get your reservations in NOW and confirm your entry at check-in!
Cook-off winner receives a $50 gift certificate to Fireside!
Cook-off entry
- Entry fee is $10 per pot, and you can enter as many pots as you want.
- $5 gets a wristband to try a tasting cup at each entry (or purchase one serving after contest).
- Winner of the contest will get a $50 gift certificate to be used at the park within a year.
- All proceeds will go to BIAA (Brain Injury Association of America).
- Extra donations are welcome!
Cook-off rules
- Each entry can be a single person or a team, but only one gift certificate given for the winning entry.
- Contestants must furnish their own ingredients, cooking and serving utensils, equipment, fuel (anything used to actually make/serve). Fireside will provide tasting cups and spoons for voters and regular cups can be purchased by anyone who wants to taste your dish. Napkins will also be provided.
- Since there can be a variety of dish types, there is no size limit to the entry, but if there is not enough for all voters to taste, you may lose out on that all important vote that could win you a $50 gift certificate.
- Your entry is to be cooked at individual campsites and brought, ready for consumption, to the judging station on the lake deck.
- Entire entries can’t come out of a can or be store brought. They must be cooked on site.
- Please label your pot mild, medium, or spicy.
Ingredients
Please provide an ingredient list for judges. (Not your recipe. We just want to make sure no one has an allergic reaction).
It’s your recipe, so your ingredients. Beef, pork, turkey, venison, lamb, chicken, even vegetarian. It’s up to you!
Voting
Those wishing to take part in the voting will pay a $5 fee and be given a wristband. The wristband allows the participant to receive a tasting cup at each entry. When the voter makes their decision, they then write the number of their choice on the wristband and turn it in at the bar by 2:45pm.
If they so desire, a voter can buy as many wristbands as s/he wants, enabling them to cast several votes for their favorite pot. (We’ll even allow the contestant to buy wristbands and give them to the voters, but the wristbands must be blank while tasting so the voter actually makes the decision.)
Those not wishing to vote can still pay $5 and receive one serving from the contestant of their choice after voting concludes to ensure all voters are served. If they want seconds, or a serving from a different contestant, they have to purchase another bowl. (It’s for the BIAA, remember!)
Cook-off time
- Entries must be at the judging area on the lake deck by 1:50pm.
- Tasting starts at 2:00pm.
- Votes must be turned in at the bar by 2:45pm, at which time, votes will be tallied. (Late votes will not be counted.)
- Winner will be announced at 3:00pm.
