Surf & Turf 06 / Sand Chef Competition

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alvarorb said:
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Having said this, you must NOT include any sauce, rub, marinade or anything that includes the secret ingredient.

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Alvaro
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If I'm coming prepared with all my sauces and marinades, without knowing what the secret ingredient is and my sauce/marinade HAPPENS to contain the secret ingredient, what am I supposed to do? Throw it out?

For example, if I happen to make a mango-based marinade and the secret ingredient happens to be mango...how could I have known?

How about picking a secret ingredient that might not be in a sauce/marinade, etc? Or...better yet, having it not matter?
 
I'll settle this one.

Should your sauce/marinade contain the secret ingredient, you will cook something with it and give it to me instead of entering the dish in the contest, I will then judge the banned dish on how much is left after I've had a turn at it! :D

Sound good?
 
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Doug,

If your marinade, rub, sauce contains the secret ingredient, lucky you.
You still need to produce two savory dishes and one dessert with the secret ingredient. A sauce, rub or marinade does not constitute the whole dish.

Regards

Alvaro
 
alvarorb said:
Doug,

If your marinade, rub, sauce contains the secret ingredient, lucky you.
You still need to produce two savory dishes and one dessert with the secret ingredient. A sauce, rub or marinade does not constitute the whole dish.

Regards

Alvaro
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Okay. My mistake for the misunderstanding. I never thought the marinade or sauce would be considered to be one of the two dishes.
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Thanks for the clarification.

:D
 
dieselbigot said:
Me too...this is sounding like it's going to take actual preparation:) I can barely get my sleeping bag packed let alone be prepared for multilpe cooking senarios. I think I have good taste though and could make a hell of a judge;)
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Just imagine the mayhem in the preparation area if it turned out that the secret ingredient was some form of ALCOHOL!
[chef to his creation] " A little for you, and a little for ME! A leeetl more for you, and a leeetl more for MEEEEE!:cheers:

That reminds me, how does Mickey Rubicon fit in to all of this?:eek:

Odds that it is blue agave tequila? ASTRONOMICAL!

It takes an iron gut to judge an iron chef. I'll volunteer to judge!:D
 
er...GAStronomical?

What if it's saltines?...how do you make a dessert with that?

Are there items that are not allowed? like Habanero's, Anchovies, using a valve cover as a steamer type thing???etc?

Please make it an alcohol as the secret...PLEASE!!!
 
Saltines... That's a thought.
There are no banned ingredients as long as they are edible. You can use gold leaves or anchovies, whatever you want. If you are willing to eat from it, you can cook on/with any vessel that you wish. Just use your common sense.

We still have not made up our minds regarding the secret ingredient. Alcohol is a good idea.

Regards

Alvaro
 
So far we have four teams signed up for the event. If you want to participate, please let me know. We have a surprise in store for the teams who participate.

Regards

Alvaro
 
I've got a team of two so far....with a third being decidely slow to commit to help.

Sorry for so many questions on this, as you can see I'm pretty excited to get my ass handed to me by NorCal Doug, but I'm up for the challenge, regardless.

Can we have utensils prepped before the 90 minutes start? Like campfires, hot skillets for frying oil, things like that, or is it a shotgun start with a blank slate, nothing pre done at all? If we were going to use a dutch oven, that's pretty hard to get a set of coals ready, and still complete a dish in that much time...so I'm guessing that is not allowed for this contest? But if we had a fire going already is that viewed as cheating the clock?

Do we get lesser points for the occurance of sand in the dish, regardless of intention or not? I mean..it is on the beach after all....

Does plating and presentation count for originality, or can I score just as many points on a Chinet as I would on fancier plates?

If we cook for more than 5, do those portions have to also be completed within the 90 minute time frame?

sorry..I won't be so anal Friday night.....I'll be half cocked on beer by then anyway..I'll be lucky to make a grilled cheeze and slap whatever the ingredient is on top of it.
 
PabloVTA said:
I've got a team of two so far....with a third being decidely slow to commit to help.
Sorry for so many questions on this, as you can see I'm pretty excited to get my ass handed to me by NorCal Doug, but I'm up for the challenge, regardless.

Can we have utensils prepped before the 90 minutes start? Like campfires, hot skillets for frying oil, things like that, or is it a shotgun start with a blank slate, nothing pre done at all? If we were going to use a dutch oven, that's pretty hard to get a set of coals ready, and still complete a dish in that much time...so I'm guessing that is not allowed for this contest? But if we had a fire going already is that viewed as cheating the clock?

Do we get lesser points for the occurance of sand in the dish, regardless of intention or not? I mean..it is on the beach after all....

Does plating and presentation count for originality, or can I score just as many points on a Chinet as I would on fancier plates?

If we cook for more than 5, do those portions have to also be completed within the 90 minute time frame?

sorry..I won't be so anal Friday night.....I'll be half cocked on beer by then anyway..I'll be lucky to make a grilled cheeze and slap whatever the ingredient is on top of it.
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It’s my assumption that it’ll be something like what we see on TV…with the Iron Chef dealio. As far as I can tell, they don’t prep fires or anything like that…but who knows…maybe it would be allowed in Sand Chef #1 :D

Whatever the judge says…

Don’t we get an hour and a half to get things done? That should be enough time to get coals started, no? I don’t even know what cooking gear I’ll be bringing to this thing…and you’re already stressing about having time to get coals set?

I don’t recall plating/presentation being one of the judging points, so I think we’re all safe there…hopefully I can pull out the chinet and be done with it ;)

As far as sand goes…I think even the incidental inclusion of silica…unless it’s the secret ingredient…might hamper the taste portion of the judging… :D
 
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Pablo,

You can start your coals as early as you need. We encourage you to have your cooking station ready to go. What you can't do is handle food (meaning start cooking) before the clock starts ticking. Therefore oil can't be started heated before the 90 minutes.
Try to keep sand out of your contest entries. Presentation is NOT being judged. But taste is, and last I checked sand did not taste too good.
Maybe next year presentation will be a category, but not this time.
90 minutes is the allowed time and you have to cook for the 5 judges. Leftovers are encouraged, but not mandatory. After all I need to taste your creations too.

PM with the name of your team and team members

Regards

Alvaro
 
Maybe some live music during the cook-off?:cool:
 
I have a couple of questions.

First, what time is the cookoff? I'd like to enter but am not sure of my arrival time since I have a 5 hour drive to get there.

Will the cooking area be in a wind protected area or do I need to bring an RV and a piece of plywood for blocking the pismo wind to actually have flames?

And as with the event, are we allowed to do prep work before the 90 minutes begins, i.e. chopping onions and peppers, or is the prep to be done during those 90 minutes?

And last, do my team members have to be absolute? It might just be me and wifey cooking, or we might grab a random pig owner, Pig Doe. Allowed?

Oh, you be soo sorry meet a my wok.
 
Snail,

The event will start around sunset. Try to get there as early as you can.
We can't predict the weather. But we'll try to shelter the cooking area as much as possible. You can't start cooking before the event starts. Yes, chopping onions and peppers is considered cooking.

We need to know how the name of your team and who is in it before Oct. 20th. However, you could have someone substitute a team member at the last minute.

Regards

Alvaro
 
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