Charcoal Challenge at the Lee County Fair

08/07/2025

Sorry for the delay, here are all of the pictures from this years Charcoal Challenge! Thank you again for another wonderful year, see y'all in 2026!

05/18/2025

THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER AMAZING WEEKEND!!!
Thank you to the teams, volunteers, committee members and community that supports this event every year!
Pictures and official results coming soon.

05/14/2025

Yall ready for this weekend!?
The CC committee and volunteers are excited and ready to make this another successful cook-off!
Let's fire em up! 🍖🔥

05/22/2024

Thank you again to all of our participants! The 2024 list of results is linked below!

https://www.leecountyfairtx.com/_files/ugd/5db70a_daee6236d1004aec9e1887133ef27af2.pdf

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05/20/2024

Also, we want to thank these amazing junior cookers for showing up this weekend! We had a record turn out with over 50 kids cooking burger patties and pork chops! Thank you to the Giddings New Horizons Lions Club for sponsoring this event.
These kids are our future cookers!

05/20/2024

Want to give a shout out to all the great teams who participated in this year's
Charcoal Challenge! We appreciate all of you and your support! And thank you to all the many volunteers and staff who spend hours making this cook off the best one around!!

05/18/2024

The Junior Division cook-off turn-in time has been moved to 12 pm because of the parade.

05/14/2024

05/23/2023

Another great year is in the books! The Nitsche Group is a proud of the 2023 Lee County Fair and Charcoal Challenge. Proceeds from the and Charcoal Challenge directly benefit local students through funding, providing them invaluable opportunities to pursue their dreams.

Thank you to the organizers, , and all the participants who made this event a massive success. Your dedication and enthusiasm truly made a difference!

Pictured: Alison & Louis Symons and Dustin & Katherine Schneider of The Nitsche Group who volunteered many, many hours of their time during this year’s event.

05/21/2023

Want to say a big THANK YOU to all the cookers who participated this year! We raised a lot of money for the scholarship fund, had lots of fun times and worked hard too! The little Junior Cookers each got their very own bbq pit this year! We teach them young in Lee County how to barbeque!

05/20/2023

Come see these beautiful ladies for t-shirts and raffle tickets!