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Here's a good "unwritten" rule to consider...
If you post in the Competition Forum, you should add a postscript stating your best 5 competition finishes in relation to the topic at hand. You should also disclose if you are NOT a competition cook.
As an example: If the topic is specifically about chicken, and you respond to a question asked, list your top 5 chicken finishes/scores...or inform the OP and other responders that you do not cook competitions.
I feel this would greatly benefit the people who are trying to learn. A question asked (about chicken since that was the example above) can generate 20 different suggestions from 20 different forum members. Eight of the responses can be from home cooks who never intend on cooking competition, two responses could be from restaurant owners/employees, and 10 could be from actual competition cooks. Of those 10, eight may have never walked in chicken. That leaves two forum members who responded that have experience in scoring well with the protein in question. If you are looking to score well, those are the two you need to pay the most attention to.
This isn't to discredit anyone...I would be one of the responders that would disclose that I am not a competition cook...and my suggestions could/would be taken with a grain of salt, or at the reader's discretion. I just see this forum not as an "opinion" forum, but as a tool for those that want to do well to be able to learn from those that DO do well. This little "disclosure postscript" would be extremely helpful.
But seriously...you could be taking the advise of someone who scores in the bottom 20% at every competition they enter and not know it. That's helpful...
If you post in the Competition Forum, you should add a postscript stating your best 5 competition finishes in relation to the topic at hand. You should also disclose if you are NOT a competition cook.
As an example: If the topic is specifically about chicken, and you respond to a question asked, list your top 5 chicken finishes/scores...or inform the OP and other responders that you do not cook competitions.
I feel this would greatly benefit the people who are trying to learn. A question asked (about chicken since that was the example above) can generate 20 different suggestions from 20 different forum members. Eight of the responses can be from home cooks who never intend on cooking competition, two responses could be from restaurant owners/employees, and 10 could be from actual competition cooks. Of those 10, eight may have never walked in chicken. That leaves two forum members who responded that have experience in scoring well with the protein in question. If you are looking to score well, those are the two you need to pay the most attention to.
This isn't to discredit anyone...I would be one of the responders that would disclose that I am not a competition cook...and my suggestions could/would be taken with a grain of salt, or at the reader's discretion. I just see this forum not as an "opinion" forum, but as a tool for those that want to do well to be able to learn from those that DO do well. This little "disclosure postscript" would be extremely helpful.
But seriously...you could be taking the advise of someone who scores in the bottom 20% at every competition they enter and not know it. That's helpful...
I take everything on the interweb with a grain of salt/rub
