To kick off the American Meat Science Association’s (AMSA) 72nd Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC), students were given the opportunity to spice up their cooking skills in Greeley, Colo. On June 22, 2019, 124 students from 13 universities participated in the Iron Chef Competition sponsored by JBS USA Food Company and their affiliate Pilgrim’s.
The morning began when the students were broken into ten groups, giving them the opportunity to work alongside and network with students from different universities. Once in groups they were given their product, a whole chicken, and told to brainstorm two different dishes they wished to prepare from them. The groups then headed up to the JBS USA Food Company headquarters in Greeley to work alongside industry chefs in the JBS kitchen. Once in the kitchen, each group was given, at random, two different spices to use in their dishes. Spices ranged from coffee ground spices to Cuban-inspired spices.