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PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

e: wrong thread!

PDP-1 fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Oct 4, 2015

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 05:02

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 03:11

PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Random ICSA theme idea:

'Round the World
Take the seven continents, exclude Antarctica and whichever continent you happen to live on, and make a meal featuring five dishes where each one is characteristic of some part of the five remaining continents.

e.g. As someone living in North America I'd have to make things based on regional recipes from Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, and Australia, and hopefully make them all work together somehow.

As an adjunct NICSA contest people could pick three of the five available continents.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2016 04:50

PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Captain Bravo posted:

I just finished polishing off a recipe for pizza crust made using Cassava Flour, so I'd be down for that.

I just don't know whether that would count as Africa, since that's where it's most commonly eaten, or South America, since that's where it originated.

If you can make the case that something could come from more than one continent you could just declare it as filling the requirement for one of those continents and then come up with something else for the others.

Since there seems to be at least a modicum of interest I'm willing to write up a kickoff thread over the coming weekend with the official contest to run over May and voting to start June 1. I'd like to do a combo NICSA/ICSA main thread just to keep things from getting split up too much (separate NICSA/ICSA voting threads tho), and will spring for a copy of The Food Lab for the NICSA winner as I'm basically a NICSA level entrant myself, but plan to shoot for the ICSA level as a stretch goal with the expectation that I'll get blown out of the water.

Does anyone want to kick in for an ICSA prize or have any other suggestions for how this should be run? I've only ever participated in one ICSA and lost it handily, so if I'm missing some major bit of how these things are traditionally done or if I'm repeating some previous mistake lemme know.

e: Anyone know what the current ICSA/NICSA contest numbers are now? The OP hasn't been updated since 2014.

PDP-1 fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Apr 22, 2016

# ¿ Apr 22, 2016 05:31

PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Captain Bravo posted:

If you'll cover The Food Lab for the ICSA winner, I'll offer my Anova Precision for a NICSA prize.*

(*Assuming it's not frowned upon or in bad taste to offer a used appliance as a prize. It's a $150 machine, and still in fairly pristine condition, I've only had it for a year. But I understand if it wouldn't be acceptable to offer it.)

(Oh, and obviously I wouldn't be entering NICSA if I'm sponsoring the prize for it. )

I don't think it's in bad taste at all, particularly considering that by the nature of the device it never comes in contact with actual food and runs hot/long enough to sterilize itself so contamination issues are basically nil. In fact, I think it's amazingly generous of you to offer! Looks like NICSA is gonna have the better prize this time around. Thank you!

bartlebee posted:

PDP-1: comes up with great concept, and in a Gift of the Magi situation, cannot participate in his own contest. You could still cook your concepts and then just post a non-contest thread about the cooking process, right?

That's cool with me - the rewards of these things from my perspective are being motivated to try something new, learn from other folks doing the same, and then gabbing about it with people who share similar interests. I'll do my thing for fun and then leave myself off the voting list when that time comes.

I'll work on getting a thread up sometime before the end of the weekend.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 02:38

PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

I looked back through the last few pages and near as I can tell this will be NICSA 18, ICSA 66. Does that sound right?

# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 02:43

PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Captain Bravo posted:

In that case, feel like flipping the script? My prize for ICSA, the book for NICSA?

That's cool with me if it's cool with you. It did seem kind of upside-down to have the better prize for NICSA, but I also didn't have any issue with a newbie getting something cool. Book for NICSA, vizzler for ICSA it is then.

Drink and Fight posted:

The usual way it goes is if the winner already has the listed prize, they can choose an alternate thing of equivalent price (in the case of cookbooks or the like), or a gift card. Not sure how that would work with a pricey piece of equipment.

I'll try to make it very clear in the writeup that the vizzler is both gently used and not really up for exchange if you already have one. If the winner already has a sous vide setup they can pass on the prize to the #2 person, etc.

Hopefully people don't get all pissy and rules-lawyer-ish about what is supposed to be a fun contest done more for the experience than the prizes.The prizes should really just be a bonus on top of winning and a paper chef hat with '#1' scrawled on the front in sharpie should be enough alongside the actual, you know, winning due being recognized by your peers as having done a great job and all.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2016 02:18

PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Alrighty, the new thread is up.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2016 20:32

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 03:11

PDP-1: Oct 12, 2004; It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

dino. posted:

Someone should make a nicsa challenge. A $20 meal for 4. 3 courses, of your choosing. Don�t count oil, salt, pepper, or spices. The based on your honesty rule should be that it has to be oil, salt, pepper, or spices that you already own.

I can sort out a week of groceries on $20, so I�d be curious to know what people would come up with for a fancier meal for guests with a more generous budget. Don�t have the budget or the time to run it, but I think it�d be fun to see what we all come up with.

Re: different standards of living. I�m aware that some places have significantly more expensive food. It�s less of a hard limit where everyone shows their literal amount of money spent. I think a good barometer would be �or whatever is the equivalent of getting a fast food for 4 at the cheapest fast food place near you, with no fancy extras.�

It�s less about the literal amount of money, and more about challenging folk to cook on a budget. Near me, I can get a good falafel sandwich with some sides for a fiver. As it�s a nicsa, I think we can trust folk to be honest.

Weird, I was just looking up this thread to propose 'cooking on a budget' as a challenge topic and you beat me to it. I wasn't going to suggest having a fixed budget, just that the judging be done on the basis of how appealing the meal looked vs cost per serving.

A fun challenge where there's one ingredient (money) you don't want to use.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 04:44

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