The Bacon Takedown is returning to San Francisco. 20 local contestants bring their finest bacon-centric concoctions to your drooling mouth. All-you-can-sample bacon-drenched madness and you get to vote on the winner, a winner that will take home sweet cooking gear. Pride. Honor. Valor.

Each team of local home cooks gets a whopping 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to blow our collective consciousness. So bring your finest bacon recipe on over, and let’s all judge this year’s Takedown Champion.