The Grilled Cheese Invitational: Bread, Butter, Cheese, VICTORY!

10/16/2007 Normal "Puttin' the 'ass' in 'classy'" O. says:

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE THE BEST GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH IN THE BAY?

I know, you're wondering if that question is all-caps important, but, my cheese-loving amigo, I assure you it TOTALLY IS!

Ladies and Gentlemen, on October 25th, we will part the mighty mountain of loaves, wade knee-deep in the cheese and swim eye-high in the butter fat to determine who in the bay area is a Grilled Cheese Champion(tm).

The "Grilled Cheese Invitational" is an official competition with prizes awarded for each category. The competition will be begin promptly at 8:00 pm at Eli's Mile High Club in North Oakland. This is a serious competition and only the strong will achieve victory in The Grilled Cheese Invitational, with all the associated bragging rights available therein. All those looking to compete in the Invitational smust read the rules and regulations before they register their sammich. Pre-registration for the 1st Annual Oakland Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational is now open.

Doors to the event will open at 7:00pm and the grilling will start promptly at 8:00pm.

All those planning on grilling should be there to receive their ballots by 7:30pm.

Judging for the event will be open to anyone who wants to sample grilled cheeses.

Anyone is welcome to attend this event and you do not have to compete in order to sample a sammich. All voting is done by audience ballot and each competitor must prepare at least 16 samples of their sammich for the gathered audience members to judge.

There are three categories and they start grilling in this order:

The Missionary Position: Standard bread, standard butter, and standard cheese.

The Kama Sutra: Exotic or standard bread, butter, and cheese plus additional ingredients.

The Honey Pot: Exotic or standard bread, butter, and cheese, but a sandwich that is sweet in general, or would best be served as dessert.

For those of you who are looking to compete, you must first familiarize yourself with the rules of competition and then register your sammich to compete.

The Grilled Cheese Invitational will be providing at least 10 "Olympic-rated" cooking surfaces for the event but participants are required to bring the ingredients for the sammiches they are entering in the competition. Each competitor must be prepared to create 16 samples of sammiches, at least four sammiches cut into quarters, in order to be scored properly for the competition. Obviously, consistency will be a key element to sammich performance.

Register your sammich here:
http://www.grilledchee...

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