Ready to put your recipe to the test? Then enter the Ag Center’s “Salute to Hamburgers” hamburger cook-off contest.

Cook-off Rules

1. Participants may be an individual, family or a group. Up to two free admittances to the Ag Center will be provided for each registered participant.
2. Sign-up or registration will be accepted via telephone at the Ag Center office (913 721-1075) through Thursday, May 8.
3. Each participant will be provided with sufficient hamburger and buns to make approximately 6 one-third pound burgers.
4. Participants will need to provide their own grill and other supplies/equipment they choose to use (table, chairs, utensils, vegetables, sauces, cheese, etc.). Any type of grill may be used.
     • Appropriate food handling practices will need to be followed – i.e. plastic gloves, utensil cleanliness, etc.
     • Kansas Department of Health and Environment requires that we check the internal temperature of the burgers to make sure the temperature has reached at least 160 degrees.
5. The Ag Center grounds will open at 9:00 AM and participants may check in and set-up at that time (location will be assigned at registration). Hamburger and buns will be handed out at check in. All work with the hamburger must be done while on the grounds.
6. The key time will be 12:30 – burgers must be ready and presented to the judges.
7. Judges will award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. No special categories have been established, therefore participants may choose to develop their burgers from very different perspectives (some may focus on taste, others on originality or presentation, etc.).
8. At the conclusion of the contest, remaining burgers may be eaten by the participants or given away but not sold.
9. Participants should clean up all trash/litter from their assigned location.