First up is a reminder. We first told you about this one 17 days ago, and now there’s only a couple days left. You need to come up with a recipe, take a photo, enter it and you can cook with Wolfgang Puck. Details here. This ends March 19th.

Second one is open until March 31st (same with the remainding contests) and that’s the one for Foodnetwork’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown. According the the site, categories include Breakfast, Chocolate, American Hometown Favorites and dozens more. Details and legal junk here.

The third and fourth contests have some, um, bizarre aspects to them. There’s the other Foodnetwork contest that runs from February 29th to March 31st. The bizarre aspect is this one month contest has only been advertised at FN both the television network and the website for two days. Making it effectively a two-week contest. Anyone with any remote knowledge in marketing and ROI knows that is just weird. Doesn’t matter to you the consumer though. Go enter. Recipe? Nope. They just want your name and email to send you stuff. For a chance at a giant $75,000 this one is probably worth it. (Btw, what any of this has to do with a skinny non-dancer doing “jazz hands” on the site I have no idea.) Go signup for the Spring into Action Sweepstakes now.

Final of four contests is another recipe contest. This one in connection with Top Chef. And this is the most bizarre of them all. Why? I’ll hold off on that a moment. First, this is the “home version” of the Top Chef Quickfire. “Your At-Home Quickfire Challenge is to create a burger inspired by the word “audacious” with only 30 minutes from prep to serve.” What do you win? No idea!!! Nothing apparently from reading the legal (and I’m one of those rare animals that can actually read legals.) So, for your chance at …. nothing, hurry up and enter, this contest here. It closes March 31st.

{17 Mar 2008}