Who's going to enter the Gonzales Jambalaya Festival Cookoff

Official rules and ingredient list, nothing outside this list is allowed to be used

1. Cooking ingredients must include:
Preliminary: 30 lbs chicken; 10 lbs rice
Semi-Finals: 45 lbs chicken; 15 lbs rice
Finals: 60 lbs chicken; 20 lbs rice
Other ingredients and Seasonings to be chosen from the following:
Yellow Onions Garlic (Fresh & Granulated)
Green Onions Red Pepper
Red Hot Sauce Bell Peppers
Celery Salt
Black Pepper Cooking Oil
NO OTHER PERSONAL SEASONING ALLOWED IN THE COOKING AREA
ONLY INGREDIENTS PROVIDED BY THE JFA WILL BE USED.
Ingredients will be handed out at the AG trailer thirty (30) minutes prior to start time of your heat.
2. Cooks must furnish black iron pot with metal lid and paddle.
3. Jambalaya must be cooked on wood furnished by JFA.
4. No former champion can be a helper.
5. Jambalaya becomes property of JFA after it is cooked. Pots will not be available for four (4) hours
after the end of your heat. Cooks will be furnished one (1) hinged plate for their own sample.
6. You will place your sample containers in your pot, and bring the pot to the trailer promptly at the end
of your designated heat time.
7. Cooks will be allowed to back-up to cooking booths and leave your vehicle there while cooking in
your assigned booths only. When you heat is finished, IMMEDIATELY move your vehicle from the
booth. Cooks must enter on Irma Blvd. from Worthy Rd.
8. ONLY cooks and helpers are allowed in the cooking area. This has been a problem, and will be
strictly enforced. There will be places on the other side of the barricades for tents and chairs.
9. Trash barrels are provided to dispose of all trash. It is your responsibility to leave your cooking
area clean and free of trash for the next contestant.
10. Grease containers will be provided for used cooking oil. Absolutely NO cooking oil is to be poured
on the ground or in drains.
11. NO HAND SAMPLING FROM POTS.
12. Maintenance of the JFA trailer is the responsibility of the cook using it. Payment to the champ for
cooking jobs will not be rendered until the trailer has been inspected for cleanliness.
13. Champion cook is required to cook three (3) times during his reigning year for free. Thereafter,
he/she will be paid a $75.00 pot cooking fee and $20.00 pot fuel allowance.
Heats will consist of no more than 17 cooks. Four (4) semi-finalists will be picked from each heat. Two (2)
semi-final heats will be Sunday morning with 16 cooks in each heat. Twelve (12) finalists will be picked from
the 2 semi-final heats. Twelve (12) finalists will compete Sunday afternoon to obtain the title of WORLD
CHAMPION JAMBALAYA COOK.
GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN BE SAFE