The Weekend: Iron Chef in your living room
A little competition is healthy, right? Okay, that doesn’t include competing with the dude in the car next to you to see who can get closer to the pedestrian crosswalk. That’s just silly….
Instead, try competing with your foodie friends by staging a little Iron Chef competition.
Recipe for Iron Chef Competition:
Ingredients:
Several foodie friends (about 6 or so…make teams of two)
An ingredient (try something basic like rice or something more challenging like chocolate…think of something you all want to cook)
A large kitchen
Several more foodie friends (the ones who don’t like to cook) to serve as judges
Bottles of wine (to get the judges drunk so they vote for your dish)
Scoring sheets (categories can include: taste, presentation, use of ingredient, overall score…have fun with the categories!)
Directions:
Assemble a group of people who love food, love cooking and love to compete. Make a trophy or decide on a suitable prize (gift certificate or crazy trophy made of canned food for example). Then find a kitchen to use and set up several workstations for each team. Each team should have a name that befits their personality (Tuna Madness, the Chefs who Ate Manhattan, Sexy Sushi, whatever names you like…). The judges should have a separate table where they can lounge and to which each team’s dish can be served. Have plenty of scoring sheets and someone to keep time.
The teams should have time to decide what they’ll make. Give everyone at least a few days notice. Decide on the rules (do the recipes have to be original? Can teams use pre-cooked foods or do they have to make everything from scratch? How much time should the teams have to cook?).
Note: This is supposed to be fun. It shouldn’t be stressful! Make sure everyone is well-hydrated with water and cocktails. Bring a camera to photograph the cooking madness.
Have fun and eat well!
January 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Can’t wait to find someone who’ll go up against me.
p.s. I submitted this to Netscape. You need to sign up and vote for it!