The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Chefs from Peony Park and Applewood Hy-vee has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 153 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Chefs from Peony Park and Applewood Hy-vee has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chefs from Peony Park and Applewood Hy-vee's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Chefs from Peony Park and Applewood Hy-vee did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Chefs from Peony Park and Applewood Hy-vee on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chefs from Peony Park and Applewood Hy-vee's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Chefs from Peony Park and Applewood Hy-vee's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 159.9772 | 159.98 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0628 | 149.0628 | 149.06 | top 89% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0856 | 153.0856 | 153.09 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3600 | 147.3600 | 147.36 | top 89% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 84.7% | 84.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-26 | Ak-Sar-Ben's River City Rodeo & Stock Show Omaha, NE | 42 / 47 (609.4856) | 34 (159.9772) | 42 (149.0628) | 40 (153.0856) | 42 (147.3600) |