Well this was a BLAST to do so much fun.
First place was a team from Whitby MIT Technologies and they won the $1000.00 first place then they did something incredible they donated it right back to the Optimist club. That was incredible to see. They lost their tent suring cooking and had a rough time but they came as a family and did a wonderful job.
2nd place was some of our friends Vince and Sandy from two men and a Hog. They made such good steaks that when we went to get one they were sold out. They are such nice peopple. We were thrilled to see trhem take a walk for sure.
3rd place was won by Buster Rhinos BBQ. They are one of my sponsor partners so that was awesome. Scott is their head chef and an all around great guy so i was thrilled for them. Darryl Kosta is the owner and truly one of the kindest men in the BBQ business always ready to offer advice etc
The biggest winner of the day though for sure was the Whitby Optimist club they sold many more tickets than anticipated and for a first time event it was run very well. I will say they had the cleanest bathrooms I have ever enountered. They had people from Maid Mart cleaning them every 1/2 hour and they were spotless. Their volunteers were wonderful and made sure we had ice and everything we needed all day long.
We had wicked weather all day one minute we were in torrential rain and the next brilliant sun. This went on all day and made for an interesting time for sure. A few teams lost their tents.
Ill post pics when i get home.
Our team of the cow cookers cooked some wicked good steaks on all our Traegers. They were like butter melt in your mouth good. Sergio from Simcoe Country Smokers did an outstanding job seasoning all the steaks we ended up cooking 70.
They announced results to only 3rd. We didn't pick up any awards but we did get a 2nd in best booth.
This was such a change for us cookiing so quickly versus the overnight cooks. Very fun and enjoyable day with lots of time to visit. There was even a team here from Magnolia Arkansas. They were some of the nicest people. Just lovely.
Overall I laughed all day. We had the Hooters booth next to us. I have never seen so many men turn into absolute gaga goofballs. I was amused all day by the guys watching the girls. Funny as heck. They even had one of the Hooters girls on top of the orange steer we had with us.
Thanks to all the great men I got to work with this weekend: My husband and love Vlado, Jim, Sergio and Tibor from Simcoe County Smokers and one of the best sponsors I have Gary Trotter from Traeger Canada.