Add some fresh chilis to the table.
A chili cookoff pits your chili recipe against others for bragging rights of best chili. Make the day enjoyable as you match your table to the event and give guests a thorough sensory experience starting with their eyes as they see the display that sets their mouth to watering to the final experience of savoring your chili.
Table Linens
Set the mood by your choice of a table cloth to represent your theme. Give your table a Mexican flair as you cover it with a colorful striped serape or an authentic Mexican blanket. If following a Western theme, use a cowboy blanket or go for a table cloth with a print, such as cowboy boots, ropes or animals. Another option is a bright cloth with a pattern of the different types of chilies or bowls of chili.
Dishes
Continue with the chili theme as you pick a sombrero-shaped hat dish to hold your chips on the outer ring, while you fill the center with your homemade salsa. Place several chili-shaped dishes, or ones that have the chilies imprinted into their design, on the table to hold additional salsas and toppings, such as chopped onions, sour cream or shredded cheese. Finish the dishes with ones to hold the crackers and additional chips.
Paper Products
Create your own logo to represent your chili group or pick a theme for your your paper products. Bring the design into your paper products as you stamp it onto your taster paper bowls or taster cups for all to see. Carry the design into your napkins as you stencil it on or stamp it on the corner of the napkin. Place the design onto your menu and item place cards and display it prominently along the edge of the table or in a sign at one corner of the table.
Accessories
Add the final touches to the table as you wrap a strand of chili lights along the perimeter of the table and allow a strand of chili lights down each corner of the table. Twist streamers with the message, "chili cookoff" along the front of the table while a strand of ceramic chilies weave through the bowls on top of the table. Finish the design with a glass cowboy boot shaped container for a flower arrangement filled with cactus
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