World Food Championships Top 10"s and Steak #wfc2015

Celebration

Today I had no clue what I was going to do. I was simply put down as helper for the day at two categories. I ended up judging sandwich top 10’s and table captain burger top 10’s and steak invitational.

I woke up with absolutely no idea of what I was going to do. I had been put down on the list to be helper at the Top 10 Category Sandwich and helper at the Top 10 Category Burger.

So I headed over to Celebration in time and reported myself as being available to help. I ended up as judge for the Top 10 Category Sandwich. In the sandwich they had to use happy egg, so that was what we as judges were looking for. A perfectly prepared sandwich with egg.

After that I was assigned to be table captain at the Top 10 Category Burger. In the burger, which could be made of beef, pork, poultry, fish or anything else, as long as it’s a burger, the competitors had to use citrus. It’s a touch competition and to find the balance in the burger with noting the usage of citrus was for the judges quite a challenge. I had the chance to taste some of the left overs and there were some exceptional entries.

After finishing both entries, I asked if I could be of any other help during the day and got the opportunity to table captain again during the World Food Championship 2015 Kansas City Steak Invitational. For this category out of every other category’s top 10 competitors, one competitor was drawn to compete this category. In this category they had to prepare two types of steaks from different cuts. After all entries were judged I had the chance to taste some pieces of steak. I can say that these steaks are top of the line steaks, very well prepared by the cooks. I also had a bowl of chili left overs which was extremely well balanced.

From there it was cooling down, taking a drink and wait for award ceremony to start, where I saw the following winners being announced.

The Kansas Steak Company contest was won by Lance Avery.

World Chefs Challenge was won by Chad Combs.

World Food Champion 2015 category Pasta is Team Challenge Butter.

World Food Champion 2015 category Sandwich is Team Rustles.

World Food Champion 2015 category Open Chili is Badazz BBQ.

World Food Champion 2015 category Burger is Rusty’s BBQ.

Congratulations to all category winners and good luck to all during the final cook off on Tuesday.

After having seen all the winners, we went over to Longhorn to get a good meal and after that went back to get ready for bed.

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World Food Championships Top 10"s and Steak #wfc2015

World Food Championship BBQ

My 4 seconds of fame

Today the event I came for: The World Food Championship BBQ. This is an (almost) all day event, so I stayed on site until it was almost time for the award ceremony which took place in Celebration.

I skipped breakfast today, as I think that I will have enough bites to taste as a judge during the World Food Championship 2015 BBQ Competition.

I drove over to the Westgate Resort & Spa, where the teams set up their gear on the parking lot. I parked my rental car and walked by the teams to register for my duty. Since I was early, I walked back to a lot of the teams. I talked to some of the teams, wishing them good luck today, without entering their prepping area, since you do not want to see their boxed before they end up on the table.

Then it was time for the judges meeting, where we were greeted by the KCBS reps, Wayne Lohman, Bill Gage and Debby Gage. I was specially welcomed as being the only european judge at the BBQ contest. I even had to read out the judges oath.

What happens in the judging tent during judging will remain in the judging tent, so I cannot comment on any of that, except I can tell that the judges were very nice and the scores given by me were similar to other judges. This makes me believe that european judges have been thought how to judge properly.

After judging I stayed on site to talk a bit more to some teams and got a pink drink from Holly Harvard, Sweet Smoke Q. What an amazing lovely girl who makes a mean drink. Then I helped out the reps getting everything ready in time for the award ceremony later that day, together with Okker.

From the Westgate I just made it in time to Celebration for the award ceremony.

Alethia Shih (Independent) won the World Championship 2015 category Recipe.

Cindy Taffel (The Bad Vegan) won the World Championship 2015 category Seafood.

Stephen Coe (Mirbeau) won the World Championship 2015 category Bacon.

Lynn Smith (Que’n Stew’n & Brew’n) won the World Championship 2015 category Dessert.

In the BBQ Category there are multiple categories, as this is just like a regular KCBS contest which contains chicken, pork ribs, pork shoulder and beef brisket. The chicken category was won by Good Buddies BBQ. The pork ribs category was won with a perfect 180 score by Freeman Brothers BBQ. The pork shoulder category was won by Team Compart. The beef brisket category was won by The Shed. The overall winner of the World Championship 2015 category BBQ was The Smoking Hills BBQ.

The european teams can be proud of their results, competing in this tough competition with fierce competitors from all over the US and Canada. BBQ Wiesel was the best european team ending up overall 22nd. Serial Grillaz 30th, Boheman BBQ 41st and The Beast 54th out of 58 competing teams. In chicken BBQ Wiesel was the best european entry with a 19th place, in pork ribs a 23th place, Serial Grillaz was the best european entry in pork shoulder with a 29th place and in beef brisket Bohemian BBQ had a 16th place.

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World Food Championship BBQ