Prizes
$150 First Place
$100 Second Place
$75 Place
Deadline for applications is: Friday, August 4, 2023
If for any reason, your cook is unable to participate please let us know immediately so we can offer the spot to another individual.
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NOTE: You will receive final instructions confirming arrival and set up times via email the first week of August. Contest will begin immediately after the parade ends at approx. 12:00pm.
Questions email: millikenevents@gmail.com
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Junior Cook prepares all condiments (slice, dice, etc.) and seasonings at home. Please do NOT bring unprepped food with knives to the contest.
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Instructions to Burger Professionals
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All Junior Cooks may take guidance from a parent or guardian; however, the adult supervisor cannot physically assist with making or cooking the hamburgers
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You will receive enough hamburger to make four hamburgers in 15 minutes
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One will be a test hamburger, you will cook first and taste test as a trial run
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Make any necessary changes and when told begin cook the other three hamburgers for the judges
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You must cook the hamburgers to 145 degrees; we have a thermometer and will check them
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Place three hamburgers into the Styrofoam container provided by Milliken Events
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Deliver to the judging table
Grills will be lit by a CIVICA volunteer only.
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