Cook-off

For the film, see Cook Off!

"Bake off" redirects here. For the British TV show, see The Great British Bake Off.

Not to be confused with Cooking off.

A cook-off is a cooking competition where the contestants each prepare dishes for judging either by a select group of judges or by the general public. Cook-offs are very popular among competitors (such as restaurants) with very similar dishes, such as chili, and serves as a way to decide which recipe is the best for that particular dish.^{[citation needed]}

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  1 Chili cook-off
  
  
  
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    1.1 Notable cook-offs
    
  
  
  
  


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  2 See also
  


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Chili cook-off

Clarksville, New Hampshire chili cook-off in 2008

A chili cook-off is a social event, similar to a barbecue, in which competitors prepare their own particular recipe for chili con carne and submit it for taste testing. A cook-off may be an informal gathering with the simple goal of sharing recipes and enjoying food, or it may be a large-scale event with an official panel of judges and substantial prizes for winners.

The Chili Appreciation Society International (CASI) sanctions over 550 cook-offs annually that raise over $1,000,000 for charity. Corporate CASI, which has the function of sanctioning all of these cook-offs, doing the necessary work to tabulate cookoff results, and putting on the annual Terlingua International Chili Championship, has an annual income of approximately $250,000. Out of this annual income around $60,000 goes to charity. The CASI is a 501(c)(3) corporation.

The International Chili Society (ICS) organizes chili cook-offs as fundraisers. Its annual cook-offs are on a grand scale, with regional qualifying events that attract tens of thousands of participants and a "World Championship" cook-off held in October. The ICS has raised millions of dollars for charity^[1] while still awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars to winners.

As early as 1970, many communities have hosted non-ICS cook-offs, leading to a competing "World Championship" cook-off in Terlingua, Texas.

The UK Chilli Cook-off Association organises chilli cook-offs as throughout the UK as fundraisers, culminating in the UK grand final at the Upton Cheyney Chili Festival near Bath, UK - Winners qualify for the World Food Championships Chili Cookoff

Notable cook-offs

• the Tustin Chili Cook Off (in Tustin, California)- the biggest 1-Day chili cook off in the world^{[citation needed]}
  


• the Chilympiad in San Marcos, Texas (for men only; ended in 2002)


• the Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned cook off in Luckenbach, Texas
  


• the Chili Appreciation Society International Chili Championship in Terlingua, Texas


• the Frank X. Tolbert/Wick Fowler World Chili Championships in Terlingua


• the Lone Star Chili Cook-off in New York City
  


• the Reunion Church Braggin' Rights Chili Cook-Off in Plainfield, Indiana
  


• the Red Gold Tomatoes Chili Cook-Off Crush Hunger Saturday in Elwood, Indiana
  


• the Rev 1 Engineering annual Tax Day Chili Throwdown in Murrieta, California
  

See also

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  The Great British Bake Off, a British TV cooking competition


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  Ribfest - An annual rib cook-off across the United States and Canada.

References

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External links

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  Chili Appreciation Society International, a national/international cook-off organizer and promoter of chili for charity


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  Piedmont Pepper Pod, the North Carolina subgroup of CASI


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  International Chili Society, a major cook-off organizer


• Munich, Germany's long running chili cook-off


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  Lone Star Chili Cook-off Texas style Chili Cook-off in New York City


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  American Seafood Cook-off^{[permanent dead link]}
  


• NOLA.com


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  The Food Experiments, a NYC-based cookoff series


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  Mackinac Island Chili Cook-off, held each February on this remote Island in the Upper Midwest


• The UK Chilli Cook-off Association

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