The Takedown

A big greasy hug for my Chicago bacon shizzerz!!!!  They know what they are doing, and what they are doing is so wrong it’s right. OO!  The ice cream and popperz and marshmallows and all that other stuff left me feeling kinda goofy the next morning, in a happy, stupid way.

Thank you big time to the home cooks of Chicago!!! Thank you Lincoln Hall!  Thank you Cuisinart, Wusthof, Microplane and Anolon!

Check out all the bacon dishes on Thrillist!!!!

After the jump, here’s all the recipes, and what won all those sick prizes!!! Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS! Email chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete!  FREE 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon!!!!

Chicago Bacon Takedown  September 14 2014 –    2-4PM at Lincoln Hall!!!! Eat 20 different bacon creations invented by true geniuses.

CALL FOR COOKS! With a FREE 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon, you can roll up your sleeves and invest your brain in the infinite!!!! Chicago’s home cooks once again are awarded the golden opportunity to fulfill their bacon destiny- CALL FOR COOKS!!!  Email chilitakedown@gmail.com to get your bacon and compete for the finest cookware prizes – and a year’s supply of bacon!!!!!

Chicago Bacon Takedown  September 14 2014 –    2-4PM at Lincoln Hall!!!!

Try ALL the bacon recipes – TICKETS AT  LINCOLN HALL !

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of proceeds benefit Women’s Education Project!

Sorry to report that the Gluten Free Takedown at the Bell House this Sunday is canceled.  But stay tuned for upcoming bacon, chili, and cookie takedowns.

We jammed The Bell House with wall to wall bezerkazoidical ice cream ideas!!!  Did you know there is now chicken ice cream?  Yup.  It’s true.  But as a tree explodes in the forest, you would only know that if you were there!!!! Thanks to the Bell House, the prize sponsors, and especially all the coolest kids who made 100+ gallons of ice cream!!!!

Check out the pics on the Takedown FB page!

and now, after the jump are all the ice creamz and winnerz and funnerz!!!! Continue reading →

July 27 2-4PM at The Bell House

TIX UP HERE. $20! TRY UNLIMITED LOCAL ICE CREAMZ!  ORGASM!

Finally it’s time for Brooklyn’s forever ice cream party to fist the sun!!! The boiling summer heat shall at last be tamed!!! This is a fizzy world we live in, you guys, with a billion different ice creams to be vacuumed up and it’s by you.  Valour.  Courage.  Honor. It’s time for real heroes to smush the faces of the cowardly, and churn us into pints of fun!

CALL FOR ICE CREAM MAKERS!  Email chilitakedown@gmail.com !!! Use your ice cream makers, mixers, or nitrogen to make your finest 2 gallons of smart ice cream!!!!    Bring it on in and I’ll provide extra dry ice for your coolers!  You’re fighting for KitchenAid® Stand Mixers!!!!! And Wusthof, Anolon and Microplane cookware!!!!!

Tickets up soon at  The Bell House!!! Just $20!!!!

Eye-buggin’ art from the ice cream deep by Tessa!!!

NYC ICE CREAM JUDGES & TASTINGS:

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of proceeds benefit Women’s Education Project!

FATHERS IN FREE!  Just show up and prove you’re a dad, and that’s cool!!!!!

CALL FOR COOKS.  Is your meat dried and delicious?  Because, um, Brooklyn is asking. (email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com)

June 15, 2-4PM, at The Bell House!

Once again, the claim to the finest jerky in The City is up for grabs, and everyone is simply meefed about it!!!  Try endless amounts of pure protein, and get to know Brooklyn’s home cooks once again, in a battle for god-like powerz!!!! (and also prizes like dehydrators from Waring, knives from Wusthof, Anolon pots and Microplane graters!!!)

Tickets at The Bell House!  See you there!!!

(and did this terrifying filth send you into conniptions like that Epcot ride? That’s because Devin Toye!!!)

JUDGES & SPONSORS:

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of proceeds benefit Women’s Education Project!

ARTISTS!! GET AT ME AT CHILITAKEDOWN@GMAIL.COM TO SIGN UP!  I’ll get you a free blank deck to paint on!!!!!

During Bushwick Open Studios your eyeballs will explode of a takedown!!!! Produced by Matt Timms AND Silky’s Screen Printing!!!  Skatedeck Painting Takedown, featuring Brooklyn’s insanest artists, painting on decks!!! FREE to attend!!! Bid on the art work!  Drink so many beerz!    Artists painting all day May 31, 1PM-8PM at The Loom, during Bushwick Open Studios!  Wander in and out and watch their progress while you check out all the galleries in Bushwick, and then come back and Bid on the decks at the Auction at 7PM, and own your own HIGHly artistic skateboard!!!!

There’ll be VEGAN CHILI!  And LAGUNITAS BEERZ!!!

All proceeds benefit BARC Animal Shelter in Williamsburg!!!!

(And the day before, Silky’s is putting on a Skatedeck Gallery show!  Also at the Loom!!!)

ALL PROFITS BENEFIT:

CALL FOR MAC AND CHEEZE COOKS! Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com to come and compete for hundreds of $$ worth of cookware prizes!!!!

YUP.  It’s a THING! Of MUCH IMPORTANCE!  The Los Angeles Mac and Cheeze Takedown stinks into town, April 27 2-4PM at Bootleg Theater!!!! 20+ local  Mac and Cheezerz are sleezin the cheeze, effortless and cool!

(Remember the time back in 2011 when I appreciated you with an Avocado Takedown!?  Well, I’m back!!!)

CALL FOR HOME COOKS!  Email chilitakedown@gmail.com!!!

Want to come eat ALL the mac cheezez until you feel oogie and triumphant!!!?

TICKET LINK HERE!  ONLY $15!!!

PRIZE SPONSOR:

Portion of proceeds benefit Women’s Education Project!

Hey so guess what?  Hotdish may get ballzed up on spellcheck, but it is an actual Minnesota thing- and these actual Minnesota home cooks were tot-deep in it!!!!  So rad to see so many different interps of the classic local casserole- everyone had a blown mind, of course.  And don’t get me started on the bars.  There’s not enough laps around a track to make my body forget those yummy  bars!!!! Thanks to all the beautiful home cooks of the Twin Cities, and O’Gara’s– which is such a rad bar and venue!!!!  I’ll be back!!!

And now after the jump, let’s see all the hotdishers and barsers – the winners! Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS! EMAIL CHILITAKEDOWN@GMAIL.COM

You guys deserve the yummingest.  Local Minnesotans is bringing their finest HOTDISH and/or their finest BARS to the alien monster honey trap that is O’Gara’s!!!!! Invading this unearthly arena are  veterans of past Minneapolis Bacon Takedowns, and any home cooks who have the fortitude (and smartest Hotdish or Bars recipe!) to sacrifice their social standing for a chance at greatness!!!

April 13, 2-4PM at O’Gara’s!!!!

Email chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete!!!!  Tons of cookware prizes (see below) and international acclaim!!!

Tix are $15!!!!! To eat all the hotdishes and all the bars!!!! Stuff stuff stuff!!!  Available HERE!

P.S. Are you terrified? Of the poster???  Art by Jeremy Jusay

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of proceeds benefit Women’s Education Project!