All,
We are planning to co-ordinate first Kutch Valley Master Chef competition for 2011.
Here are some highlights of the competition :
1] Will be spread over 4 saturdays starting 3rd week of Jan 2011
2] There will be maximum 8 competitors : First cum first basis
3] In first round 2 will be eliminated to reach quarter finals
4] In quarter finals again two will be eliminated to reach semis
5] In Semis two will be eliminated to reach finals.
Rules of the game
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[Note host will provide basic cooking range for warming and fridge for storing dishes, if required by contestant. For finals see the rules of finals]
Elimination round
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1] Every contestant will prepare the *same dish* from home and bring for evaluation
2] There will be three judges who will evaluate and give marks on following criteria :
a) Taste
b) Presentation
c) Uniqueness/Innovation
Sum total of all judges total will determine who proceeds further to second round.
3] Spouses of contestants will be not allowed to be judges. Note there will be two fixed judges and one judge will keep on changing every week.
Quarter finals rules
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1] This round shall involve contestants cooking a dish of their choice but using two key ingredients chosen by judges a week before. Contestants will prepare the dish at their home and bring it.
2] There will be three judges who will evaluate and give marks on following criteria :
a) Taste
b) Presentation
c) Uniqueness/Innovation
Sum total of all judges total will determine who proceeds further to semis round.
3] Spouses of contestants will be not allowed to be judges. Note there will be two fixed judges and one judge will keep on changing every week.
Semis round
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1] This will be shorbet/drink and dessert round. Contestants will prepare shorbet/drink and dessert of their choice. Contestants will prepare the dish at their home and bring it.
2] There will be three judges who will evaluate and give marks on following criteria :
a) Taste
b) Presentation
c) Uniqueness/Innovation
Sum total of all judges total will determine who proceeds further to final round.
3] Spouses of contestants will be not allowed to be judges. Note there will be two fixed judges and one judge will keep on changing every week.
Finals
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1] Contestant will prepare signature dish of their choice. They will prepare it live in front of all at the party host’s home.. Randomly first contestant will be chosen to cook first , followed by next (time limit of 60 minutes per contestant). Contestants to bring all the ingredients from their home – *NO INGREDIENTS WILL BE PROVIDED BY HOST* , accept for utensils and cooking range (specify upfront what utensils will be needed so host can arrange for the same). Contestants should clean up after their dish. 15 minutes provided for that.
2] This dish will be evaluated all the guests present at the party (one per family) using the same criteria.
3] Sum total of all the scores will determine the winner
4] All guests that want to attend, there will be gate fee of $5/family. Guests need to register a week before the finals so that host can plan accordingly.
Awards
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1] Bragging rights for 2011
2] Chef coat, hat
3] $50 cash prize
4] Sticky blog on kutchvalley page for their signature recipe for entire 2011.
Next steps
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1] Two more game co-ordinator along with myself and purvesh
2] Need one fixed judge for entire competition
3] Floating judges – note your spouse cannot be participant
4] Hosts that are willing to host parties. Finals will be hosted at my place.
5] Suggestions for fixed dish for elimination round, two key ingredients for quarter finals round.
[Note rules can change before contest starts after brainstorming with all co-ordinators]
Stay tuned to this thread for more on this… Will send out registration form for contest. Registration will start in a week’s time and will be open for a week. Do indicate your interest level on this thread though for being : contestant,judge,co-ordinator, host. Still contestant registration will happen in a week, no pre-registrations. If there is no interest within our group at this time, we will open this to other groups. Idea is that lets have Kutchvalley Master Chef.
[all dishes will have to be vegetarian and egg less. No Alcohol]
Looking forward to exciting contest…
Regards,
Mona and Purvesh
510.857.3317/510.857.3316
510.896.5264
If you are not contestant or co-ordinator or judge, you can be guest at this parties. Again you can indicate if you plan to attend as guest at one of this parties.
Mona and Purvesh, this definitely sounds exciting. We would be glad to host one of the rounds, still thinking about contesting or judging :).
Sounds interesting. We can host one of the session at our place. May be interested in being a floating judge.
Very interesting, well thought contest. I would like to join as audience.
Intresting. I can join as a contestant as well as host one of the session.
Sounds like a great idea. I am thinking about being one of the contestants.
Need just a few clarifications.
All rounds (Saturdays): Q1) Timing of the contest?
Final round: Q1) Siganture dish should it be one item or can be more?
Q2) Can the prep work be done at home eg if making a samosa can it be all prepared at home and brought only to be fried at the host home?
Q3) 15 minutes for clean-up …. Seriously can ur family/audience help with that and can family be in the audience?
Q4) Would the meal be prepared just for the judges or the audience too and what if there is 10+audience do we still have to finish in 60 minutes?
Sounds exciting…I would like to be a contestant.
Would like to join as an audience
Hi Vaishali,
1] Timing to be decided, will be evenings mostly.
2] Signature dish upto participant
3] Participant to clean, if needed we can increase the time.
4] Just for judges … again judges are expected only to taste the dishes hence no need for quite a lot.. In final there will be many judges, still they are expected to just taste the dish – no full meal for any judges.
Hi Vaishali,
1] Timing to be decided, will be evenings mostly.
2] Signature dish upto participant
3] Participant to clean, if needed we can increase the time.
4] Just for judges … again judges are expected only to taste the dishes hence no need for quite a lot.. In final there will be many judges, still they are expected to just taste the dish – no full meal for any judges.
HI Vaishali,
The clean up is being kept since in the finals there will be 2 contestants and after 1 contestant is done the other has to start cooking .
Also since it is the signature dish it has to be cooked in front of everybody since for all the other rounds all the contestant will be cooking from there home.
Also i will be providing the only basic appliances and utensils rest all the ingredients the participant have to bring for themselves depending upon there signature dish.
Thanks,
Mona
All,
Here is the registration form for the event. You can register as participant,host,judge,guest or all using the form.
Registration Form
Looking forward to fun and exciting game. Would encourage all to signup. Also will be sending email to all with the link to the form and will share the form on facebook too.
Feel free to call me or mona if you need any clarification.
Regards,
Purvesh
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Sounds exciting…Interested in being a floating judge for the dessert/sorbet round.
HI All,
we have received responses and we are planning to close the participation round form by 11th of jan so that will be the last day to register and so i would encourage everybody to fill the form and register soon. I am sure we all will enjoy the game .
Thanks,
Mona