Need some help

The best answer just might be from an email to the organizer.

These ancillary events are "all over the place" on rules.
The organizer would be the expert.

Good luck.

TIM

Maybe you will get a response from someone who has done that contest and they can provide the best information. Generally these are anything goes (at least for dessert) as in any kind of container you want. Someone even hired a marching band to escort their dessert at the Royal one time. The organizers will usually provide regular containers for dessert but if it is anything goes I would recommend something better. An example of this is The Slabs presentation for a Pork Loin (non KCBS anything goes) category. It would be hard to compete with this with just a styrofoam containers.

I know this because we have used the styrofoam in the past because we were not sure what the rules were before hand and never placed and have usually been in the bottom half. Just my .02 I would also recommend emailing the organizer ahead of time.

http://www.theslabs.com/results/slabalicious-pork-loin.html

In Yardley you could use any container you want. hit a yard sale and grab some neat dishes!!!

Last year they were all over the place for sides. Beans were the prevelent entry. It ranged from six crystal dishes with really meaty baked beans to someone that poured some warmed up canned pork & beans into a 9x9 container. Also,had some shrimp dishes, sausage snacks,appetizers etc.
Now the desserts were a whole nother matter. One of our entries was a multiple layered mousse/whipped cream deal in a huge glass snifter that just knocked our socks off. Lot of strawbwerry dishes, and at 100 deg outside, a peach ice cream that was sooo cold it gave us a headache!!
They had to have used dry ice or liquid nitrogen to keep it froze.
After knockin down the four meat catagories it takes a real glutton for punishment to hit those desserts. I noticed a whole lot of 9's at our table.
Go for the WOW factor.
ModelMaker
P.S. They put the dishes on a table after judging and you are responsible to fetch them after wards if you want them back.