All you need to know about Golden Eye Chef 2023
International Cooking Contest for the Blind
Golden Eye Chef 2023 welcomes you.
As you know, Golden Eye Chef 2023 is an international level cooking competition in which only legally blind people can participate. The competition was announced on 30 September 2023. This is an online video recipe competition. To participate, you have to make a cooking video and email it to goldeneyechef@antardrishti.org by 30 October 2023.
This year the theme of Golden Eye Chef 2023 is ‘Preparing a traditional dish from your locality using locally available ingredients’.
Like the previous editions, this time too the competition is being organized in two categories – one for totally blind participants and the other one for partially blind participants.
Entry Fee: There is no entry fee to participate in this competition.
Registration and Eligibility
To participate in the contest, participants must email a video demonstrating their cooking skills along with a completed entry form. The team will review the video and if everything goes well, the participant will automatically be included in the competition.
Last date for submission of entries is 30th October 2023
Who can participate?
Any person who has a legally valid blindness certificate can participate in the competition, no matter where he lives, what he speaks, what caste, religion or race he belongs to.
Only his/her age should be 18 years or above as on September 30, 2023.
There will be no discrimination on the basis of location, gender, race etc. of the participant in the competition. There is no fee of any kind to participate in the competition.
How one can participate?
First read carefully, then understand and agree to the terms and conditions.
Record a video of yourself cooking at home a One traditional dish from your locality using locally available ingredients as per the theme. Save your video. Remember, file name of your entry must have your Name and Dish Name. For example – Contestant-Dish-Name.mov.
Golden Eye Chef 2023 – International Cooking Contest for the Blind. Entry Form
All the participants are requested to carefully read, understand and agree with the Terms & Conditions prior to entry because they form a legally binding agreement with respect to this Contest.
I have read the rules and regulations of Golden Eye Chef International Cooking Contest 2023 and agree to abide by them. I also certify the authenticity of the information filled in the entry form.
Download the entry form form, fill it carefully and email it to us at goldeneyechef@antardrisht.org along with your created video and disability certificate.
You can upload your video and document to any file sharing website like Drop Box, Wetransfer, Google Drive etc and share the link with us.
You are free to use your preferred language in the video. However, if it’s not in English or Hindi, please provide us with the English text of the voiceover in the video.
In short, rules and regulations of Golden Eye Chef 2023. For detail follow the link – Terms & Condition; Golden Eye Chef 2023
1. You can submit only one recipe for the contest.
2. The entries should be clearly written – List of ingredients with specific quantities to be used. Step-wise method of preparation and cooking. It must include following details.
Dish Name:
Brief description of your dish and also tell us why you are making this dish:
List your ingredients and quantities.
List your step-by-step preparation and cooking instructions.
3. The maximum duration of the video should not exceed 15 minutes.
4. Explain clearly why you chose this recipe.
5. The video must contain information about the ingredients used during cooking.
6. The entire cooking process has to be clearly explained in the video.
7. Dish presentation must be included.
8. You can use mobile camera or any other video recorder to shoot the video, you just need to remember that video must be in landscape format /view and voice and video quality should be ok.
9. You have to do the cooking at your home kitchen and use only easily available ingredients.
10. Any kind of help while cooking will not be allowed.
11. You can take the help of others to record the video, but, apart from dubbing, no editing will be allowed in the video. You can record video with pauses to make the most of video time.
12. Save your video and text file with Name and Recipe Name.
Awards
There will be 10 awards in total. Apart from Winners and Runner-up of the Jury Awards and people’s choice awards, there will be a most innovative recipe and best traditional recipe awards in both categories.
Criteria for selection of winners
As you know this year’s competition is to prepare ‘a traditional dish from your locality using locally available ingredients’ – choose a dish that is traditional from where you stay or belong and also you can prepare and present it well.
Unlike the previous years, this year we would like to share, with you the judging criteria or parameters so that you can select and prepare the best and the very popular as well as traditional dish and share the video with recipe. Knowing the parameters in advance will help you to try to score better marks as well. Hence all the best for all of you.
The deciding criteria are as follows:-
Total marks will be 100, which are divided into 6 types of criteria or parameters. If we look at it in more detail, Criteria 1 to 5 will have 15 marks each i.e. a total of 75 marks and Criteria 6 will have 25 marks; if we add all the 6 criteria then the total will be 100 marks.
What are these six criteria?
- Authenticity of the dish:- How original and traditional the dish is.
- Use of ingredients:– What all the ingredients you are using, is there any ingredient or ingredients which are available only in your country, state, province or locality. No wastage or excess use of ingredients.
- Presentation:- How the dish should be traditionally presented like in a special dish or vessel like a Hundi for Dum Biryani, Paella for Spanish paella dishes, Tagine for Morocco dish, or wrapped in a banana leaf, turmeric leaf or vine leaf or served on a banana leaf etc or with a particular accompaniment or side dishes to go along with it. (The side dishes or accompaniments can be already prepared and kept and the preparation of the same need not be shared in the video as these are not judged or assessed)
- Quantity:- As food should not be wasted as far as possible prepare only 2 portions and serve or present only one portion of the dish. If you have to present the entire dish, as individual portions cannot be served, you can do so. Maximum 4 portions could be prepared if that is the minimum quantity in which the dish could be prepared and presented.
- Difficulty and Skills: Difficulty and the level of skill required in preparing the dish. If there is any particular skill required in shaping, folding, cutting, cooking or other similar skills etc.
- Dish Info:- The most important is explaining the dish about its importance, history if any, significance or other factors and WHY you have selected this particular dish for the competition.
The winners of the Jury Awards will be selected based on the sum of the marks obtained in these six criteria.
I hope we have made it very clear about the judging criteria. If you still feel you need more information or something is unclear, feel free to contact us, and we will be happy to clear them up.
For entry form and detailed information visit our website https://2023.goldeneyechef.com
Once again, all the best to you from all of us.
Team Golden Eye Chef
