Chicago Bacon Takedown - still some slots open!

Open call to anyone who'd like to be a part of the Chicago Bacon Takedown- I can give you 15lbs of bacon to compete! Check out the details at:
http://chili-takedown.com/?p=1475

Anyone can enter! Make whatever bacon-centric dish you like! I want to see what local Chicagoans can create!!!! Prizes include Wusthof Knives, Anolon pots, and Microplane graters!

Hit me back at mtimms7 at hotmail to enter, and for more info!!!!

I'd love to get the LTH food community involved - Seth from Baconfest told me you guys are serious doers of fun stuff!!! Check out chilitakedown.com and see the tons of fun culinary events I've done around the country! Looking forward to hearing from you!

Matt Timms

Hey Matt, best of luck in this venture. If I thought I had any serious competitive skills in this area, I'd be in.

Matt - looks like fun, though after reviewing the standard bacon blogs and your own YouTube trailer, every single bacon thing I can dream up has been done in another city for this tour in some variation. How do you keep it real when certainly there will be proven crowd favorite ABTs, Bacon Explosions, and candied bacon to compete against at every stop along the circuit? How can hope be kept alive when every "independent" bacon lightbulb has been previously derived, in this Era of Bacon? How is your blood pressure?

Bacon sausage, ultradecadent carbonara preparations, and bacon s'mores already having been covered, my only contributions would be tweaks:

- make more exotic sausages, like Thai Isaan or red curry sausages, with smoked bacon instead of belly or back
- make carbonara with homemade pasta where the pasta itself incorporates crumbled bacon and bacon salt
- make bacon s'mores where the marshmallows are actually toasted over a candle of rendered bacon fat (topped with an egg, behold the s'moregg)

Anyone wanting to compete is welcome to bacon ma po tofu, but somehow I don't see that flying in competition conditions. Good luck to all.

Santander wrote:How can hope be kept alive when every "independent" bacon lightbulb has been previously derived, in this Era of Bacon?

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