Do you think you have the best smoked meat in town?
Join the Fairlawn Neighborhood for a Smoked Meat BBQ-Cookoff. We will provide the meat, you just have to show off your skills. Want to know more? Check out the information rules and guidelines below.
OTHER INFORMATION & GUIDELINES:
- 2 Competitions: Judges Competition & People’s Choice
- Individual competitors may have more than one meat entry (If entering more than one meat, must be specified in advance of the day of competition).
Judges Competition
- Each contestant will provide meat for 3-4 judges @ 4pm.
- Boxes will be provided to contestants and numbers secretly assigned.
- Meat will be judged according to 3 criteria:
- Appearance
- Would I want to eat this? Does it look appetizing?
- Presentation of box.
- Bark & White
- Tenderness/Texture
- Is it tough? Really have to tear or chewing takes forever?
- Is it soft? Pasty or mushy?
- Does it fall apart while maintaining a pleasing and edible texture?
- Taste
- Do you like it?
- Does it the taste stand on its own?
- Is too salty? Too smoky? Overwhelmed by spice?
- Each criteria will be judged with the following scoring system: 9 excellent,8 very good, 7 above average, 6 average, 5 below average, 4 poor, 3 bad, and 2 inedible.
- Each criteria’s score is weighted, with taste carrying the most value, then tenderness/texture, and finally, appearance. The weighting system is as follows:
- For 3 Judges: 100 points available, 33.3334 per judge
- (Taste – 1.6206; Tenderness/Texture – .8103; Appearance – .3469)
- For 4 Judges: 100 points available, 25 points per judge.
- (Taste – 2.1604; Tenderness/Texture – 1.0802; Appearance – .46311)
- For 3 Judges: 100 points available, 33.3334 per judge
- In the event of a tie, cumulative raw scores will be used to break the tie, in order of highest weighted category.
People’s Choice
- Once the judge’s boxes have been sent out, people’s choice competition will open.
- Each competitor will be given a supply of “ranch” cups to dish small samples of meat out to competition guests.
- Each competitor will also be given a glass jar with their name on it for collecting tickets.
- Each guest will be given 3 tickets to cast votes for their favorite meat.
- Guests may cast all 3 tickets to one competitor or split them up to 2 or 3 competitors.
- People’s choice voting will close at 4:45pm.
- Jars will be gathered and tickets tallied.
- The competitor with the most tickets is the winner.