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!!!

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: