Happy The Holidays! You have a bet with yourself, the day you forgot last year’s very sincere resolutions. The bet is I bet you can eat more cookies in 2014.  Okay hotshot so prove it I don’t even believe you!  Since the blowing up of the Cookie Takedown, this is now a 2 day takedown– come Saturday, come Sunday—>>> but come.  Bottomless cookies and eggnog, Brooklyn.  Tis the damn season. TILL YOUR WORLD SPINS!!!!

CALL FOR COOKS- email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com – and pick Saturday or Sunday, Dec 6 OR 7, to compete! Hit me up, home cooks- prizes from KitchenAid (stand mixers!), Cake Boss, Whusthof, and Microplane!

Dec 6 AND Dec 7 2-4PM at The Bell House…  TIX HERE!

An hour of free Maker’s Mark hot toddies each day!!!

There’s a rumble in this cookie jungle!!!  A punked up sensation by scary Avi Spivak ^^^

HOT TODDY SPONSOR:

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy we macced and we cheezed!  And we didn’t stop until the bellies were busted!!! Believe!!!   Thanks again to all the brave and cheezy cooks for making me love Chicago the MOST.

Next up… I’m looking to rock a SOUP TAKEDOWN, just when it gets way too gross to be true weather-wise out there…  I’ll swoop in with a ton of SOUP TAKEDOWNERZ and save the day!!!

Read on to see who won and stuff!!!!

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CALL FOR COOKS!  Email chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete!!! Fight for  huge prizes from Cuisinart, Wusthof, Anolon and Microplane!!!

Hot on the heels of the Chicago Bacon Takedown, Matt Timms is returning to town- this time to see exactly how varsity bonkers are Chicagoan homecooks… for sleezy bowls of mac and cheeze!!!

November 23 2-4PM at Lincoln Hall!

TICKETS HERE! All you can eat Mac and Cheezez by Chicago’s best home cooks!!!! They’re competing for tons and tons of the finest cookware!

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Thanks be to the wowzerz who came and bazorged through ALL 30 CHILIS!  Brooklyn is truly the uppicenter of all fun things- and we know how to chili, violently!!!! This here’s the wrap up!

Thanks for all the free cocktails from Caleb’s Kola!  And to all the prize sponsors, including Le Creuset, Wusthof, Anolon, and Microplane!!!

Check out all the chilis, and the winningest ones! Continue reading →

Just in case you thought Bacon Takedowns was just for us stupids, guess who showed up to compete- none other than famous playwright Lynn Nottage, bringing her Not Your Grandma’s Latkas into the insane frenzy at Littlefield!

Okay, now that we got the obscene name-dropping out of the way, let’s talk takedown.

Thanks to all the Brooklyn home cooks for rocking and destroying.  It is just a fact that you are actually the best.  Thanks to sponsor Hormel Black Label Bacon for the 300lbs of bacons used in this insane bacon gambit!!!  And Littlefield, a perf venue INDEED!  Oo, also, did everybody get a chance to play Menu Mashup at the gaming booth!??!?

Check out all the pics on the Takedown FB page!

And here’s all the recipes and winners!!!!  READ ON! Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS!  Email Matt Timms at chilitakedown@gmail.com !!!!

This is the Most Important Takedown you guys.  The classic! The no-rules chili bonkatron that started it all!!!!  The extra special one that hugs your guts so friendly!!!!

Nov 16 2-4PM at The Bell House  – all the chilis you can stuff down your gullet!!! TIX HERE!  FREE COCKTAILS FEATURING CALEB’S KOLA!!!!

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This is it you guys… the biggie bacon one!   CALL FOR COOKS (email chilitakedown@gmail.com) and I’ll give you, yes GIVUH YOU, 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to make something to ethplode our collective bacon hivemind.

Because Brooklyn is filled to the top of the mosh pit with perfect cooks, this particular takedown has proved the most scintillating, because Matt Timms believes in hyperbole, and also it’s true! And I’m hosting this one at Littlefield (home of Punderdome, which is awesome.)

This just in! Play Menu Mashup at the Special Gaming Center, and blow your own mind, jack!

Tickets HERE – to cheaply enjoy ALL the most vicious bacon concoctions… a mere $20!!!

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR TONIGHT!!!!  WALK UP!!!!

Hot sauces to melt your face!!!  (And ice creams, to save you…) and a FREE Brooklyn Brew w ticket!

If you had a superpower what would it be?  I hope you said The Power to Melt Faces, second place Invisibility, because I’m doing a Hot Sauce Takedown as part of Comic Con’s New York Super Week!!!  Eat your weight in fire!!! Burn in misery!!!! And guess what else!?  Some of NYC’s best ice cream companies will be there to help put out your flames (Adirondack, Luca and Bosco, Mikey Likes It, and more) !!!   All this while you quaff the quapp out of some nice Brooklyn Brews AT THE BREWERY!

October 8 7-10PM at Brooklyn Brewery!  TICKETS HERE

CALL FOR COOKS!  Whose got a recipe for liquid hate!?  Let’s see it, and play for prizes!!!!  Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com !!!

CALL FOR MILWAUKEE HOME COOKS!  $1000s worth of cookware, and $500 in cash to fight for!!!!

October 5, 2-4PM at Turner Hall!!!!  TICKETS HERE!

I’m coming back to the epicenter of all things cheezed, with sponsor Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board!  Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete for crazy amounts of prizes!

RIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of proceeds benefit Women’s Education Project!

DETROIT BACON TAKEDOWN – SEPT 21 1-3PM at Magic Stick!!!

Home Cooks!!! EMAIL ME at chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete! FREE 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to work with! Hundreds of $$ worth of cookware in prizes!!!! FREE TO ENTER!!!  Make the dish at home and bring it on in!!!

Want to go on this bacon odyssey?  Unlimyummited bacon treatz TICKETS HERE

I love Detroit, and this’ll be my first time there!  Home of my favorite band in the galazy The Gories (mama!)… and now The Detroit Bacon Takedown!!!!  At Magic Stick – !!!  Every possible bacon invention, concoction, and innovation REVEALED!!!  I’m calling all Detroit home cooks to compete- and I’ll give you each  a FREE 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to make any bacon dish (im)possible!!!! How does Detroit’s underground cooking scene do???!!

Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com if you’ve got a super smart recipe- sign up and compete for cookware prizes (Wusthof, Anolon, Microplane and more!!!!) and fame!!!!

And if you want to come and eat and eat and eat and eat UNLIMITED bacon creations – it’s only $15 to consume this stuff!!!  TICKET HERE!!!