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Directly from the Cloverdale Rodeo Press Release:

FIRE UP THE GRILL AT THE FIRST EVER CLOVERDALE COWBOY COOK-OFF BBQ COMPETITION

Cloverdale, BC – Get ready for secret recipes that have been passed on for generations, aromas that will make your mouth water and the best food ever served on a paper plate at the first ever Cloverdale Cowboy Cook Off BBQ Competition during this year’s Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair, May 18-21, 2012. Barbequing masters from Canada and beyond will fasten their cowboy boots and prove they know how to work a grill – country style – as they battle it out in a fierce competition for title and cash.

Presented by Well Seasoned, more than 25 different teams will compete for $10,000 in cash prizes. The competition begins Saturday afternoon with a pie and chili contest. Next up is an Iron Chef style contest, BATTLE BACON. Each team will be provided with 5 lbs of Johnston’s BC Bacon and the teams can make anything they want using bacon as the feature ingredient. At 5 pm on Saturday the BACON dishes will be submitted to the judges for evaluation.

After BATTLE BACON teams will start to cook their meat in preparation for the competition on Sunday. Beef brisket and pork shoulder can take up to 15 hours to cook, so the cooks will have to stay up all night to tend to their meat. The main competition starts Sunday at 11am, and every hour on the hour teams will turn in different meat entries to the judges.

Each judge has been trained and certified by the Pacific Northwest BBQ Association. Judges will be evaluating the food based on appearance, texture, taste and flavour. The food is rated on a scale of 1-10 by six different judges. After the teams have submitted their food to the judges, they will pass out samples to the public. Get ready for some of the best barbeque you have ever experienced!

Show Times:

Saturday May 19th

1:00 pm – Pie

2:00 pm – Chili

4:00 pm – BATTLE BACON

Sunday May 20th

11:00 am – Pork Shoulder

12:00 pm – Beef Brisket

1:00 pm – Chicken

2:00 pm – Ribs

5:00 pm – Awards

For more information visit www.cloverdalerodeo.com.