{"id":2399,"date":"2010-09-04T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T19:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatinoc.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:02:39","slug":"sunday-night-chef-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/special-event\/sunday-night-chef-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Chef Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got this a couple of days ago and wanted to share with you.\u00a0 The inaugural Sunday Night Chef Fight<\/a> in Huntington Beach is coming Sunday Sept. 19th!\u00a0 I’ll let them explain it for me…<\/p>\n

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Sunday Night Chef Fight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cPUNK VS. PATINA\u201d BATTLE SET FOR INAUGURAL
\nORANGE COUNTY SUNDAY NIGHT CHEF FIGHT<\/p>\n

Renowned Local Chefs Knoke, Schoenburg to Cook for Culinary Supremacy at Live Head-to-Head Cooking Competition Sunday, September 19th at Standards of Excellence in Huntington Beach<\/p>\n

Huntington Beach, CA\u2014Two esteemed local chefs will sharpen their knives and step into the culinary ring to determine just who is Orange County\u2019s \u201cTop Chef,\u201d as ForgottenGrapes.com presents the inaugural Orange County Sunday Night Chef Fight cooking competition live Sunday September 19th at 6:00 p.m. at the Standards of Excellence Kitchen Showroom in Huntington Beach.<\/p>\n

Chef Phil Knoke, former drummer in numerous O.C. punk bands and current chef\/owner of SteerCrazy International Grill & BBQ in Capistrano Beach, will face the heat and face off against his opponent, former Patina Group executive chef and current chef\/owner of The Lido Deck in Newport Beach Chef Don Schoenburg, in this high-stakes live cooking competition where the live audience gets to serve as judge, jury, and taste-cutioner.<\/p>\n

Each Sunday Night Chef Fight is a fast-paced, no-holds-barred culinary showdown similar to popular cooking competitions on TV, but with a few extra twists thrown in to entertain and switch things up. Before each event, the chefs are given three base ingredients \u2013 a protein, vegetable, and starch\/grain \u2013 that must be included in their creations, a shopping allowance, and a week to plan and prep their dishes for the sixty members of the audience jury. Then, during the Sunday Night Chef Fight itself, each chef and his or her sous-chef will have only 30 minutes to cook and finish their dishes as well as incorporate a \u201cmystery ingredient\u201d into the mix, while host Chris Kern peppers each chef with questions and comments keeps the audience apprised and entertained as to what\u2019s going on behind the stove. The audience rates each chef\u2019s creations in three categories, the totals are tallied, and at the end of the night one chef will be crowned the winner, receive the coveted Sunday Night Chef Fight trophy, the title of \u201cChampion Chef of Orange County,\u201d and the opportunity to defend his or her title against a new local chef challenger at the next Orange County Sunday Night Chef Fight, to be held in early December.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Sunday Night Chef Fight is the ultimate challenge for any outstanding chef,\u201d notes Chris Kern, founder of ForgottenGrapes.com, creator of Sunday Night Chef Fights, and host of the event. \u201cNot only are the chefs testing their culinary creativity and ability to work against the clock and against each other, but they\u2019ve now got sixty local gourmets, foodies, and self-appointed food critics judging their creations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each Sunday Night Chef Fight will also include as an \u201cundercard\u201d bout Vino Vidi Vici, a blind wine tasting competition in which all audience members taste three themed but unlabeled wines, select a favorite, and then have the opportunity to purchase either the winner or the wines they liked best. Limited information about each bottle will be revealed over the course of the Chef Fight and the winning (and losing) wines will be unveiled before the Champion Chef is crowned.<\/p>\n

Tickets are currently on sale online at SundayNightChefFights.com for the inaugural Orange County Sunday Night Chef Fight starting at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 19th at the Standards of Excellence Kitchen Showroom in Huntington Beach, 16001 Gothard Street on the corner of Gothard and Edinger. General Seating tickets are $50 per person, which includes the 2-hour competition, samples of both chef\u2019s culinary creations, and one pour of each Vino Vidi Vici wine. For more information on Sunday Night Chef Fights, visit SundayNightChefFights.com or e-mail info@sundaynightcheffights.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got this a couple of days ago and wanted to share with you.\u00a0 The inaugural Sunday Night Chef Fight in Huntington Beach is coming Sunday Sept. 19th!\u00a0 I’ll let them explain it for me… \u201cPUNK VS. PATINA\u201d BATTLE SET FOR INAUGURAL ORANGE COUNTY SUNDAY NIGHT CHEF FIGHT Renowned Local Chefs Knoke, Schoenburg to Cook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[60,86,131,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-2399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-special-event","7":"tag-eat-in-oc-friends","8":"tag-huntington-beach","9":"tag-special-events","10":"tag-things-to-do","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgNGWN-CH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}