Expert Tips for Hosting a Mens Only Cooking Show: Ideas and Success Strategies

[Tracy Cameron]

I need some help from all you fellow cheffers. You all have such amazing ideas and suggestions, I just had to seek your advice. I have the husband of a friend who is very interested in hosting a mens only cooking show, with the hopes of enticing his friends to come and shop for their significant others for Christmas gifts. I'd like to know if any one out there has done this before, and excactly how you all "pulled" it off. I've had some ideas shared by my directors about wearing a carpenter's tool belt with our "tools" in it, to serve the touchdown taco dip and beer of course, but I wanted to hear any other success tips you all may have. Thanks in advance for all your help.

 

[tlennhoff]

If you do a seach in the file section on "men" you will see a bunch of ideas for mens only parties.

 

[cmdtrgd]

There's also a flyer that you can give to the wives/girlfriends/significant others to fill out so the men can shop for stuff that is actually wanted. Plus, it gives you an idea of what to bring to the show. Men are very hands-on, but usually are not interested in the cooking show part. Maybe more of an open house idea?

 

[tlennhoff]

A grill theme is always good with guys and many grill in all weather. My brother grills outside in snow storms.

 

[gilliandanielle]

If you do a seach in the file section on "men" you will see a bunch of ideas for mens only parties.

Make sure you type this into the search for for this site, not the yahoo/google one, or you're going to have some explaining to do!! LOL!

 

[Tracy Cameron]

Thanks for all your wonderful ideas so far..I'm stockpiling all these wonderful ideas so far and they are all great. I am having trouble with the search tool using "men" as my keyword though, no matches it says. At my cluster meeting this evening my director suggested for the recipe to try the hot pizza dip, barbeque pizza or anything to do with chile. She also suggested if the men are having a beer to join them using your measure all cup as your drinking glass. I thought that was really being resourceful!

Any other formats or ideas to suggest?

 

[tlennhoff]

To find the men files go to files and then search on men. To save you time here are the ones I found tonight. I know we had a thread (or hijacked thread) where we recently talked about ideas but I was unable to find the threads.

 

[Tracy Cameron]

Thanks again for all those flyer and invite ideas. I'm definitely going to put them into action. My biggest question is what is the best format for a men's show? What really peaks their interests and what has made your own men's show a success? Any ideas to incorporate? Maybe I'm just stressing out too much over this as I have never done one before, but I'd definitely like to market this idea this coming season.

Thanks agian for sharing all these wonderful ideas.

 

[SuzyP]

I am having one Dec 1. We talked to a lot of guys who are invited and it'll be an open house type with food (dip, chips and the like) and beer. It's what the guys want so that is what they'll get.

hth,
suzy

 

[tlennhoff]

Suzy, that would be what I'd think guys would like for a show - to stop in, browse, see wishlist of their significant other if you had them do those, place an order, and head out. I'd have vegetables out for them to play with some of the tools like knives (both kinds), the mandoline, and graters.

 

[mrssyvo]

My husband has scheduled a "Guy's Only" show for the 28th of November. he is excited about this, because although I have put many shows in his name, this is his 1st true show as host. He is E-mailing his friends that live out of town, and inviting friends local, and I am E-mail out wish-lists to my customers, encouraging them to give lists to husbands. I doubt that husbands of my customers would come to the show, since they do not know my husband, but they might order. I will be offering free gift-wrapping, also. It should be an interesting evening, but I do not expect a large turn-out. My husband does not have many friends that live near us, but we are counting on outside orders. We are serving cheddar and beef stuffed sandwich- I have attached the recipe, and probably pizza dip and chips. If any of you have a sample of an E-mail I might send to my customers to attach to the wish-list, please post it, because I am not very creative.

 

[tiffanypatton79]

i'd suggest making the beer bread during you're presentation it's so easy and who likes beer the most? plus it will smell yummy while you talk just a thought ~tiffanyp

 

[ceg]

I'm planning a Men Only party because so many Men do lots of cooking here in Altoona , Pa. When my friend had her Party the men wanted to come and the wives all said no. My friend is actually asking her husband what to get since he does alot of the cooking. Don't just make wish list for women, get the guys to make one to give back to the wives. Even my husband loves the executive cookware , my 25 year old asked for some for christmas since he will move out some day, he also asked for bamboo spatulas, he said they are the best tool around. connie-ceg