Today my work put on a chili cook off, I LOOOOOOOVE making chili and was really excited. Chad made a chili also, so I ended up buying a new futuristic crockpot just for the event. We had score cards where you can rate the taste, color, texture, aftertaste so on. $5 got you a bowl and all the money went to a charity (our work sponsored a family for Christmas). There were six of us who entered. I ended up in second place with 38 points, the winner was at 40, so it was pretty close. Second place is still pretty good I think.
This is the futuristic crock pot I got, it beeped every time I tried to set the temp on it. It seems super complicated for a crock pot, but I think it's pretty awesome. I have a feeling it might have a time travel feature, imagine munching on a ham while checking out what happened to the dinosaurs.
The only thing that kind of bummed me out about the cook off was I brought my chili in tupperware straight from the fridge and put it in the crock pot when I got to work. I had about 3 1/2 hours to get my chili warm, but it really didn't work out the best. Low setting was too low so 1/2 hour lost, Med was too low 1/2 lost, it was still cold. So high it was and then someone unplugged the crockpots. By the time it was time to taste my chili was cold, my co-workers where really cool and pushed the cook off by 1/2 hour to give me a little time to heat my chili up. It reached about room temp by the time people started eating it. It tasted great but it wasn't really as hot as I wanted. At that point I stopped worrying about it and let it be what it was.
In the end all the chili was eaten up and we made $215 for the family, it was a really great time and I am sure that family will be really happy. I love raising money for charity with food, cooking and eating it. Win win!!
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