Do you enjoy cooking with your significant other? How about spending nights in the kitchen testing new recipes or planning your next menu for your guests? Maybe watching cooking competition TV shows and thinking you both could cook better? Well here’s your chance to compete as a couple and cook together against other couples in Orlando, FL. Edible Orlando magazine and the Orlando Date Night Guide presents a cooking competition for couples to test their cooking skills for a chance to win prizes and be named Orlando’s Top Culinary Couple. There are currently qualifying rounds that couples can enter for a fee, with proceeds supporting Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. Winning couples will move on to a semi-final round, with the Final Round taking place on Friday, November 14, 2014. See all of the details below and good luck cooking!
Event details via our friends at Orlando Date Night Guide, who I’m just helping out to promote the event. Please help spread the word!
Get ready for a fast-paced, hands-on cooking competition designed to give couples the opportunity to test their skills for the chance to win fabulous prizes and the title of Orlando’s Top Culinary Couple.
Presented by Edible Orlando and the Orlando Date Night Guide, the contest will give couples the chance to compete in one of the 3 qualifying rounds, with one winner from each semi-final cook-off advancing to the finals. Contests will be judged by local food personalities and writers.
Contestants receive a mystery box filled with ingredients they will use to whip up their killer dish inside one of five state-of-the-art designer kitchens at Aggressive Appliances.
** ONLY five couples will get the chance to compete in each semi-final round. There will be one winning couple from each qualifying round. Each winning couple receives complimentary admission to the finals. **
Prizes include:
A two-night gourmet getaway to JW Marriott, Grande Lakes including dinner for two at PRIMO, breakfast each morning in Citron, An American Brasserie, and two spa passes to the Ritz-Carlton Spa.
Sub Zero wine cooler
Tassimo coffee system
Meile canister vacuum
KitchenAid stand mixer
**Entry is $150 PER COUPLE with proceeds supporting Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida.
Qualifying Rounds:
Friday, September 19, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
*** Couples compete in their choice of ONE of the qualifying rounds. ***
Final Round: Friday, November 14, 2014 (A limited number of tickets will be made available to those wishing to attend the finals as an observer. These tickets will go on sale Oct. 20)
All events run from 6:30pm to approxiamtely 9pm.