Welcome to the home of the Xtreme Texas Cookers. We are a barbeque team based out of Houston, Texas. Our team consists of a very diversified group that shares a single love for cooking good barbeque. Collectively, our team has over 150 years of combined experience in the realm of competitive cooking and we go to each event with a great deal of enthusiasm. The Xtreme Texas Cookers were created when two other teams merged with the ideals that a team could meet and exceed the existing expectations of what a competitive cooking team is capable of.
Granted, with every competition, there is a lot of hard work and preparation involved. With the hard work comes the satisfaction of being able to spend several days at a time outside under the Texas sky, cooking, eating, drinking and laughing with friends and neighbors.
Our schedule is much diversified as well. We participate in the greatest barbeque cookoff in the world, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Championship Cookoff every spring and we bring our donors one of the best parties that can be had at the show. We will spend a few months to prepare for this event and have been known to serve as many as 1,500 people in one day. Of course, everyone that goes to the HLSR Cookoff knows exactly who we are by the live Zydeco band, the beads, the jello-shots, the dancing and of course, our mouth-watering food. Our parties have become somewhat of a standard that all the other competitors strive to match.
HOW WE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY
Through the years, the Xtreme Texas Cookers have raised thousands of dollars for scholarships in the Houston metro area through event participation. The team has also participated in numerous fundraising events for Special Olympics Texas, cancer benefits, the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, and most recently a fallen police officer benefit.
SUPPORTING THOSE THAT PROTECT AND SERVE
Xtreme Texas Cookers has had the honor to offer our support with the help of several cooking teams. We were able to provide BBQ lunches to help group fundraising efforts throughout the years.
Assist officer benefit 2013:
Larry Dale Candelari
End of Watch: Friday, April 26, 2013
Larry Dale Candelari “Cande”, 49, born in Houston, Texas on October 15, 1963, reported for duty in Heaven on April 26, 2013. He was on the job until the end. Larry was killed while serving as a First Responder after witnessing a major, multi-vehicle car accident outside Kerrville, Texas.
He joined the Pasadena Police Department in 1990 and served for 24 years. During his time with the department, his assignments included Patrol, Narcotics, and Dare. Larry was a member of the Pasadena Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics “S.W.A.T.” for 22 of those years. Larry was a “policeman’s policeman” and received numerous awards and accommodations and was beloved by his fellow officers. Larry was also the cousin of one of our own cooks Allen Candelari.
Assist officer benefit 2009:
Officer Jesse Hamilton
End of Watch: Friday, August 21, 2009
Officer Jesse Hamilton was shot and killed after responding to a domestic disturbance call at a trailer park near the intersection of Shaver Road and Queens Road at approximately 6:30 am. He had responded to the scene approximately 20 minutes earlier. As Officer Hamilton interviewed a female on the porch he learned that the male subject was armed with a handgun. Moments later the man emerged from the trailer and shot him. Another officer arriving at the scene observed the suspect standing over Officer Hamilton’s body. When the suspect turned towards the officer he was shot once in the head and wounded.
Officer Hamilton was transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center where he succumbed to his wounds. Officer Hamilton had served with the Pasadena Police Department for four years. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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