2024 Crosslake Days - Chili Cookoff
Saturday, September 28, 2024 (12:00 PM - 3:00 PM) (CDT)
Description
2024 CROSSLAKE DAYS CHILI COOK-OFF WINNERS ANNOUNCED:
JUDGES CHOICE:
1st Place - Grand Champion Meats - "Persistence Chili"
2nd Place - Holiday Station Store - "Smokin' Afterburner"
3rd Place - Crosslake Town Square Legacy Gardens - "Mama's Chili"
PEOPLES CHOICE:
1st Place - Crosslake Rental and 14 Lakes Craft Brewing - "Smoked 5-Cheese Pork Chili"
2nd Place - RiverWood Bank - "57 Chevy"
3rd Place - TIE Grand Champion Meats - ""Persistence Chili" and Tremolo Communications - "Jalapeño Business"
For more than 35 years, Crosslake Businesses have simmered up their special chili recipes and every year the competition is HOT, as businesses go head-to-head for the Golden Ladles and bragging rights!
We're bringing in self proclaimed culinary enthusiasts from the Crosslake Ideals Lions Club, Chuck Cole, Dale Walesheck and Kim Walesheck who will determine who wins the Crosslake Days Chili Cook-off Judges Trophy.
The Peoples Choice award is determined by hundreds of samplers, and often a tougher crowd to please! Tasting begins at noon at businesses Crosslake-wide until gone.
HOW TO VOTE:
Download the Crosslake App to your mobile device and vote for your favorite by 3 p.m., winners will be announced and trophies presented shortly after.
2023 Chili Cook-Off Judges Choice
1st Place - Squirrelly Mama
2nd Place - Crosslake Rental
3rd Place - Zorbaz
2023 Chili Cook-Off Peoples Choice
1st Place - Tremolo Communications
2nd Place - Whitefish at the Lakes Senior Living
3rd Place - RiverWood Bank
Crosslake, MN 56442
11:45 AM - Deadline for delivery of Chili to the Chamber for Judges Choice entry
12 - 3 PM - Free samples available at participating businesses
3 PM - Peoples Choice voting deadline
4 PM - Trophies awarded to winning businesses
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