UMBCookoff with Retriever Essentials!

Do you think you have what it takes to be Retriever Essentials’ UMBCooking champion? Anyone can participate from a student org, club, or even a group of friends!

Details: Each team will consist of 3-4 individuals and you will be able to compete for a panel of judges in a live cooking competition. You will have until Sunday, March 26th, 2023 at 10:00pm to sign up! 

Qualification: Your team must submit two dishes! You don’t have to cook these for us, but your recipe’s creativity, detail, ingredients, how tasty it sounds, and your use of a Retriever Essentials ingredient will determine if you compete on May 2nd! For a further understanding, see the rubric here.

Selection Period: We will be selecting teams the moment the sign up ends and we will let you know in an announcement on myUMBC March 31st, 2023. The announcement will have team names, recipe titles, date of the competition. We will also personally email you as well to make sure you get the message! 3 teams will be selected and they will have a chance to cook their two dishes for our judges in the main event!

!!The day the selected teams will compete is May 2nd of this semester from 5:00 to 7:00 PM!!

Prizes: Prizes will include your dish being featured one day in the True Grits Dining Hall menu with the option to cook it with dining services staff, gift cards to local participating restaurants and other places, and potentially some other prizes that will be very, very, VERY intriguing.

Here’s the link to sign up! Remember, the deadline is March 26th, 2023 at 10:00pm:

https://forms.gle/G1DR4WdiZaQQmJC47