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2024 Annual Chili Cook-off and Pledge Drive Kick Off

January 28 @ 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Calling All Chili Chefs!

Do YOU have what it takes to be the 2024 Grand Champion Chili Chef?

Join us at UUCOD’s Chili Cook-Off. This will be an awesome beginning of our Annual Pledge Drive. It has been 3 years since we had a Chili Cook-Off and we’re ready for a fun afternoon of sampling chili, visiting with each other and awarding prizes.

The congregation will sample the chili and vote for their favorites. Chili will be judged in three categories: Vegan, Vegetarian and Chili with Meat. There will be prizes for the winners of each category and the absolutely amazing (tacky) perpetual trophy will go to the overall winner.

It takes a village to have a cook-off

You can help make our our Chili Cook-Off a success by volunteering. We need YOUR help

Cooking Cornbread
Setting up before the service with tables outside on the patio
Setting up the Community Room with tables and chairs
Enlisting chefs
Helping with the awards
Help with Decorating

Sign up to let us know if you will be entering your prizewinning chili or volunteering in another way. Together we can make this a fun and successful event.

Registration ends on January 24 so that we have time to prepare for the event.

Chili Chef Instructions

Bring your cooked chili (preferably in a crock or instant pot) to the kitchen before service so we can plug in and keep your masterpieces warm during service. If you don’t have a crock pot, no worries, we will keep your pot warm on the stove. We expect about 90 people to taste chili …..