What a fiendishly rad expose of the possibilities of bacon. SF has always been a majorly fun food stop. Everyone talks about the restaurants and chefs, but here’s the Takedown to once again prove that the average joe’s walking the streets over there are actually not so average!!!! In fact, let’s burn every restaurant down!!! Trust me, it won’t be anarchy. There’s way too much yummy talent in this town- a new cooking culture will form, of good old fashioned home cooks with boundless energy and rad strength. THANK YOU COOKS!!!
And thank you to my sponsor Hormel Black Label Bacon for letting this thing tour the planet and give endless amounts of bacon to competitors wherever we go!! And Public Works, for being a fantastic venue for this madness to ensue…
Check out this incredibly extensive and caring article by Judge Josh Leskar! That dude really cares, and gave his thoughts on all the recipes!!! Thanks for being the best judge ever, Josh!!!
AFTER THE JUMP all the winners and recipes! Continue reading →
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A special big big thank you to the Ice Creamers of Brooklyn, making 2 gallons each to tame a heat wave and bring joy and pizzazz to the Bell House! You guys are infinitely cooler than your average Brooklynite. Thanks also to Dream Scoops, Adirondack Creamery, Laboratorio del Gelato and Blue Marble for coming out, handing out huge samples around the place, and judging the ice cream efforts!!!
See the GORGEOUS ICE CREAM SHOTS up at Serious Eats!!!
In serious news: there was a MUSHROOM ICE CREAM!!! Sounds gross! Wasn’t!!!! In fact, there wasn’t a gross ice cream in the whole place- ask anybody!!! Here after the jump is a list of all the competitors- and the Takedown Ice Cream champs of 2012!!!! Continue reading →
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Boston has the most colleges and universities in the country. The home of MIT and Harvard to name only 2. They invented beans, and chowder. Arguably, one might say this is totally the smartest city. Which explains why 300 of their finest power genius mind lords show up to the Armory for the Boston Bacon Takedown, just to fill their bellies with all-you-can-eat bacon recipes, until they were officially happysick!!
So, wow! Boston, right? You guys finally did the thing that I’ve been dreaming of for years now, and you did it wicked good. Bacon. Corn. Dogs. I’m not lying, I’ve wanted to see bacon corn dogs since I started doing Bacon Takedowns in 2009, and now that dream is SO REAL!
Thanks to Boston cooks, who are the goodest people! Thanks to The Armory, which, turns out, is way better than any Boston venue. Great staff, awesome bar, and it’s in happy Somerville, not stinky downtown. And thanks to my sponosr Hormel Black Label Bacon– for making this, the 3rd leg of the Bacon Takedown tour so succesful… what a rad ride!!!
AFTER THE JUMP all the recipes and the winners!!! Continue reading →
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TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!!!
July 15, 2012 2PM at Public Works in the Mission!
Pop quiz, hot shot: What’s faster than a cherry red Lambourghini Countache Quartravore (this is not a trace I drew that, don’t doubt me ever)? The answer is that there is nothing. Except maybe the SAN FRANCISCO BACON TAKEDOWN, THAT IS!
Just like last year, and the year before that, I’m bringing the Takedown back to SF. Each team of local home cooks gets a whopping 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon (sponsoring!) to blow our collective consciousness. We’re all doofuses for bacon, but I’m looking for you to make something truly spectacular… So bring your finest bacon recipe on over, and let’s all judge this year’s Takedown “CHAMPIGNON”!!! (that is a actual french word.)
The prizes are kind of totally worth it: Analon, Le Creuset, Wusthof, Microplane- and even a YEAR’S SUPPLY of Hormel Black Label Bacon!!!
i used photoshop to create a look like there is an angry rumbling cloud of bacon that is actually rolling in to smother SF. I'm actually quite proud of how this looks. cool, right!!??
TICKETS JUST $15 !!! AVAILABLE HERE!!!!
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SOLD OUT!!!!! No tickets available at door either! Stinkeroo!!!
Sorry, you’re missing out big time, but EMAIL ME to get on my mailing list! This must never happen again.
Madness ensues…
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1 SPOT OPENED UP, IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO COMPETE! I can give you 15lbs of bacon!!! CONTACT ME!
What’s up, meatheads??!!!! June 24 at The Armory in Somervile, at 2PM!!! Continue reading →
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The blood of Sparta flows through the godly bodies of my Takedownerz. I know this because I was there. I saw my small squad of 20 cooks look out upon the field, and coolly survey the tens of thousands of googamoogers. A hawk circled over the field, screaming like this: KAWWW! KAWWW!!! That’s when they knew. This place would burn.
The Takedownerz did what they had to do, and set grimly to their cauldrons of hot sauce that would could kneel a colossus. And that weekend, they did make the attendees of Googamooga kneel to their will… and exploded their hearts!!
AFTER THE JUMP here’s a list of Saturday and Sundays competitors, their hot sauces- as well as the winner champs who won… Continue reading →
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ALL SPOTS FILLED! (but EMAIL ME to get on my mailing list, for other equally amazing takedowns!!)
Can you even believe it!!!??? The biggest food event all year (May 19+20) has decided, in their utmost smartness, to make a Hot Sauce Takedown to happen!!!
5:15PM-6:45PM May 19 + 20 in the Restaurant 101 Area at Googamooga in Prospect Park!
As the benevolent ruler of the Takedown, I said sigh, okay I guess I will have to unleash 20 googleplex tonz of lovingly-locally-made hot sauces upon this land. Let’s make it happen…!!!!! Over the 2 days, there will be 20 Brooklyn local hot sauce sizzlers in attendance, and YOU will judge the hellishness of all of them!!!! VOTE to determine the coolest of the hotttt. The endorphins floating around Googamooga would blow any roof off, so thank God and Hall and Oates that this is an outdoor takedown…!!!!
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No Denver, it is NOT okay to bodyslam a person with 300lbs of bacon. You would have to be INSANE to think that is a normal thing. But I guess your average Denverite doesn’t care about what’s done on the outside. When you get in the Octagon, you lose a part of yourself, and all that is left is a raw animal urge… to party super hard. Continue reading →
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Hey Denver!!! Look who’s back! This time with a BACON Takedown- the 2nd stop on the Bacon Tour Bus! Get ready to wonder at 20 local cooks, and how they interpret bacon in their winningest recipes!!!
COOK CALL IS OVER! CONTESTANT LIST FULL! Email me to get on the mailing list to never miss a cook call again!!!! I can give any contestant a free 15lbs of sponsor Hormel Black Label Bacon – to make any dish your brain can thunk! After the Denver Avocado Takedown last year, I realize now how tummy yumming you guys are at fooding, so this shouldn’t be a challenge… still- there are SHOCKINGLY GOOD prizes at stake, from Anolon, Le Creuset, Cuisinart, Microplane, and Wusthoff!!! Even a year’s supply of Hormel Black Label Bacon!!! So take it serious!!!
And for those who just want to graze on all the illustrious bacon concoctions, it’s a mere $15!!!! Tickets HERE!!!!
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