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Welcome to the home of the Xtreme Texas Cookers. We are a barbeque cookoff team based out of Houston, Texas. Our team consists of a very diversified group that shares a single love – 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.

We also enjoy having a good time. 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.

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.

Cooking lunch for Houston Livestock Committee Volunteers 2009

Assist the officer benefit November 2009:

Xtreme Texas Cookers was happy to help the Pasadena Citizens Police Academy raise funds for the family of fallen Pasadena officer Jesse Hamilton.  With the help of several cooking teams, we were able to provide bbq lunches to help the groups fundraising efforts.

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. For more information, please visit www.officerjessehamilton.com.