87.4 at WotW

--Morro Bay, CA (Feast Fest)

--It has been confirmed that the Feast Fest exhibition at Windows on the Water in Morro Bay has finally come to a complete end after its Saturday postponement.

Saturday saw only seven minutes of cooking until a water main broke, flooding the kitchen and suspending the activities for the remainder of the night.

Resumption came at 12:45 p.m. Sunday, but the water main broke twice more, leading to a cumulative delay of five and a half hours that saw the DigIn bell sounding at 10:01, twenty-seven hours and one minute after the exhibition started Saturday.

The exhibition's constant delays flustered FF chefs, and the projected NCA score dipped as low as 76.2 at one point in the early evening. The turkeys' seemingly unassailable 98-and-up streak was shattered, as their bone-dry texture led to them receiving an abysmal 79.0 score.

"The turkeys were '03-level," said Jim McAllister, likening the birds to the parched 2003 Feast Fest turkeys that tarnished that year's official NCA score.

The chefs will not meet again until the next and final Feast Fest exhibition, at Edelyn Cooking Arena in Punta Gorda, Fla. on Tuesday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. EST.

Jim McAllister: "We have to step things up for Punta Gorda. A change of scene would be nice; Morro Bay's usually one of my favorite places to have exhibitions, but everything went wrong from every angle and on every front and in every way this time around."

And Lynn Avi commented, "The big day's only a little over a month away. We can't be seeing scores of this nature when we're trying to get that coveted 100 mark!"

But at WotW over the weekend, thoughts of the 100 score were sparse. "Let's just get this over with," was the call of most chefs. They didn't bother with dreams of 100; today, they knew that they were in Morro Bay and that a score of 100 was on Mars.