A New and Creative Way of Judging a Chili Contest in Cambridge

There are a lot of  community fun fairs and events going on during the autumn season in Canada.

Fall time is a season for pumpkins and community fairs in Canada

Esther and her husband invited us to an annual community corn roast fest in the city of Cambridge, about an hour and half hour drive from Toronto.

We enjoyed a nice drive on a fine afternoon out in the country and making a few stops along the way to visit a few country places.

A creative way of using the mini pumpkins as the pieces for a chess game

There were a lot to see and taste at the fall community festival.

Chili is a popular food in North America and a Chile Contest is often a fun activity for fun fair goers at a community fair.

This time at the fall festival, we did not only taste a few Chili dishes made from different recipes, we also got to judge and choose the winning one as well.

Chili Contest Station at the Corn Roast Fest in Cambridge, Ontario

There was a station set up for all the Chili dishes. The contest participants each prepared his/ her favourite Chili dish at home ahead of time.

They entered the contest and placed their dishes on the contest table along with a card listing all the ingredients used in their recipes.

Simple rules for the recent Chili Cook Off, Cambridge, Ont.

In front of each Chili dish, there a jar collecting donations. All interested festival goers were welcome to be judges for the cook off. They just needed to line up to taste all the different types of Chile dishes



After the people tasted the Chili, they would vote for their favourite dish by placing various amount of money/ coins into the specific jars representing the dishes.

People voting for the winning Chili dish by depositing money here

The jar that collected the most amount of money at the end of the tasting would  be the winning dish and the money collected would go to a charitable cause. What a great idea!

That was fun!  We loved tasting the different variety of Chili dishes. Though made of similar ingredients, the Chili dishes tasted very different from each other. I liked three of them and donated to all three jars with the biggest amount going to my most favorite dish!



Though my most favourite dish did not win the Chili Contest  we enjoyed the food experience!

R.T.
At a Chili Contest
Cambridge, Ontario
Canada