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Iron Chef of Phelix Hut (Winter Edition) · Sat. Feb. 8th, 2025 - Sun. Feb. 9th, 2025
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Start: Saturday, Feb. 8th, 6:00 am
End: Sunday, Feb. 9th, 8:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 4th, 6:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting location: Zoom
Description:
The legacy continues! Iron Chef is back!
Iron Chef 2024 2025: Brought to you by Julian and Joanna
As some of you may remember, the sixth annual Iron Chef of Brew Hut in October was cancelled due to early snowfall and flood/landslide warnings. For this reason we have devised a winter edition, competing at Phelix Hut. Priority will be given to those originally signed up for the fall trip, but everyone is welcome.
The following was based heavily on Settare's description from the fall trip posting:
Introduction
Welcome to Phelix Hut Stadium! Backcountry Chefs, please step forward and prepare to demonstrate your culinary expertise. You will be called upon to craft, from deep within the mountains, food that no mere mortal has ever consumed among the azure skies and snowy slopes which can be spied from Phelix Hut.
Here is a video to understand what this adventure into which you are embarking is based on.
Description
For those of you unfamiliar with this show, the aspects of the premise of the show which are relevant to our trip are as follows:
Teams of three chefs will compete against each other for the Golden Spork. Each team, of which we will likely have four, will create a meal using the secret ingredient (not to be revealed until we reach the hut) and whatever cookstuffs and foodstuffs they have packed in with them. Each team's creation will then be sampled by everyone and the winning team will be determined by a combination of the judges and popular vote.
For this trip, we will need 12 people to work in four teams of three chefs and 2 extra judge/videographer/water-filler/vibe assistant to help out. The secret ingredient will be good for both savoury and sweet dishes. Teams should plan to make a meal for four (This allows everyone to eat a fantastic potluck afterwards). Examples of delicacies people have cooked up in the past:
- Ravioli with fresh dough (yes, they carried up a pasta maker)
- Pizza (on the hut's oven)
- Wanton soup (with handmade Wantons and broth)
- Apple crumble made in a cast iron pan
- ice cream (brought up to the hut in a cooler)
- etc.
In the past we have had great trips with much good food, this may be one of the few calorie-positive trips you’ll ever be on!
Logistics
Teams will be made during the pretrip meeting, so feel free to come with your team or make a new one!
We will leave Vancouver early Saturday morning and head up to Phelix hut - the trail in is about 10km and 1000m gain, so we'll give ourselves plenty of time to snowshoe. We will check in about conditions closer to the day, but avalanche risk along the trail is very low, so the trip is likely to go ahead. Teams will have the afternoon to prepare their kitchen. In the spirit of winter, we may have the kitchens built in the snow, but the warm hut is always an option. The Iron Chef showdown will begin with 90 minutes of cooking, followed by the potluck and voting. The masses will taste and vote on four categories (tastiness, appearance, backcountry execution, and the incorporation of secret ingredient) after tasting it. The judges will give their deliberations, and then each team will submit their own votes. Once everyone is satiated and the votes counted, we will award the Golden Spork.
Sunday morning, all participants are invited to try and outdo each other in their breakfast displays, in a no stakes exhibition. We will then head down and back to Vancouver with our appetite - both for food and the mountains - sated.
All participants should be comfortable with safe and respectful backcountry travel, but folks new to hiking and camping are more than welcome! If you have any questions about the trip, email Julian ([email protected]), or Joanna ([email protected]) . We will be focussed on snowshoeing, but if you are already experienced with backcountry skiing, feel free to skin up to the hut. If you're hesitant about signing up because of your skills or experience, please get in touch, this is a great introductory winter hut trip.
Past Year’s trip reports
2017 - https://www.ubc-voc.com/2017/10/17/iron-chef-at-brew-hut
2018 - https://www.ubc-voc.com/2018/10/16/iron-chef-at-brew-hut-2
Posted: 2025-01-04 19:29:51
Last modified: 2025-01-31 20:28:05