Day 5: Chopped Challenge
Chopped, Baked, and Fried Project Week Group in front of Hotel Andra, home of the Hot Stove Society, our home-base for the week. Today was the much-anticipated Chopped Challenge cook-off at Tom Douglas’s Hot Stove Society, and one of those special Fridays where I was truly sad the week was over. We began our sunny Friday with Mollie’s homemade challah French toast for a team breakfast in my classroom—we needed fuel for the Chopped Challenge. And, because how else would you end a week of nonstop eating other than by indulging in challah coated in syrup? We then boarded bus 25 with our awesome driver, Victor, and headed to the Redmond PCC where we stocked up on essentials for our Chopped Challenge. Each group had a strict $100 budget and a grocery list that they created yesterday afternoon after our tour of Pike’s Place. Part of the challenge was in finding all the ingredients for under $100, and everyone succeeded. After groceries were weighed, paid, and bagged, and we boarded th