RedEye's Virtual Kitchen Stadium Competition

If you were able to catch the Chicago RedEye paper yesterday, yours truly was featured on the inside cover as one of the "cheftestants" for Chicago Tribune/Chicago RedEye's "Virtual Kitchen Stadium" Iron Chef-style competition.

The competition started yesterday morning and the secret ingredient was revealed - cherries. The cheftestants were required to come up a creative dish/submission for the competition by 8pm last night. With all the submissions in, the public has the chance to vote for their favorite. The ultimate decision of who moves into the next round falls on Chef Rick Bayless, who will be judging the submissions based on creativity, explanation of the dish and presentation.

If any of the cheftestants are eliminated by Chef Bayless, they have the opportunity of being "saved" by the public and return to the final round of competition as a wildcard based on the popularity vote.

If you would like to cast your vote for the best representation of cherry in a dish, you can leave a comment on the Chicago RedEye blog with your thoughts on the submissions.

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/ ... plate.html

sounds good and I wish you luck, but unfortunately the link is to one of those horrific websites loaded with streaming ads, live feeds, dancing bears, real-time space exploration, bouncing raindrops and singing baboons. I see all that junk starting to load, and immediately shut down my browser.

I'd been meaning to post - that competition is going to be chock-full of cross-posters: I think elakin will be participating as well. There's a biography of each participant that's fun to read (not very in-depth, but interesting; I love Joelen's story about the chocolate chip cookies.)

yeah, i'm in there too. i go next tuesday, and i'll be squaring off against fellow LTH'er and fellow Chicago food blogger, da Beef, aka King T.

elakin wrote:yeah, i'm in there too. i go next tuesday, and i'll be squaring off against fellow LTH'er and fellow Chicago food blogger, da Beef, aka King T.

Good luck to both of you!! Another event for "LTH Forum Total Media Domination"!

thanks, and congrats on your first-round win yesterday!

voting is now open for this event.

go check it out!

http://tiny.cc/EIlHa

Nice job, E. How does one vote? Do those comments at the bottom count as votes, or is there something else I should be clicking?

Hi,

Unless I am mistaken, this is not a juried competition?

Regards,

The semi-final round has been completed and open for voting. Chef Rick Bayless decides the final 2 to compete while the public's votes determine the wildcard contestant that will join in the final round next week. To cast your vote, sign in and leave a comment on RedEye's site.

Congratulations on winning, Joelen/foodie1!

Can you post the picture here?

crrush wrote:Congratulations on winning, Joelen/foodie1!

Can you post the picture here?

Thank you Colleen! You can view the pictures and recipes of all the finalists' dishes here.

Congrats, Joelen. Very exciting!