We're excited to see the field of competitors who have already won their golden ticket and registered to compete at the 2024 World Food Championships. And we are always proud to announce our special guests and celebrity judges participating in our judging events across the nation - we're sure the championship food certainly helps! Best of luck to our 2024 competitors!
COMPETITOR
Thin, Beautiful, Blue Smoke
HEAD COOK: Randy White
COMPETITION: World Burger Championship
QUALIFYING EVENT: World Burger Championship
I'm inspired by food, and the power it has to bring people together. I'm an engineer and project manager by profession; however, my greatest passion is found in cooking. It's therapeutic, and brings me a great deal of joy. I love I'm able to connect and touch people through food in a way that no other conduit exists. I've been cooking for most of the last fifteen years; however, I began cooking competitively in 2010. It started with- ironically enough- a burger throwdown in my wife's old hometown. Her father called and asked me to come down and enter the competition so he could kick my ass. I accepted the challenge, went down there, and took first place. He took third :) I was hooked after that. The routine and the responsibilities of daily life have kept us from being able to compete as often as we'd like; however, I have a competitive BBQ team and we compete a few times per year in north Texas. I'm a member of KCBS, IBCA and also the recently-formed Steak Cookoff Association, or SCA.