Tasmanian Chilli and Cheese Fest 2025
Saturday 8th March, 2025 as part of the Heartlands Autumn Festivalacross the long weekend!
The historic village of Ross is situated halfway between Launceston in the north and Hobart in the South. Well-servied by coaches, this is the ideal stop-over on your Tasmanian holiday, or a great excuse to take a one hour drive to indulge your senses.
ChiChi can’t wait to greet you!
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Date
8th March 2025
Time
11am to 7pm
Location
Old School Oval, Ross Village, Tasmania
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Tasmania's first ever chilli and cheese festival is here!
HELLFIRE ALLEY
A selection of chilli providores including Ross’s very own resident chilli-head, Rob Dunn of Australian Extreme Chilli Condiments.
CHEESE HEAVEN
Meet some of Tasmania’s finest cheese providores including local region cheese-makers.
CHILLI and CHEESE CHALLENGES
For the bravehearts, a choice of four Chilli challenges and some fun Cheese Challenges to entertain you.
Fiery Pod Challenge – Who will be the last person standing to take the crown!
Great Balls of Fire Challenge – Endurance and capacity are key in this challenge involving some fireballs made by Ross’s very own Rob Dunn of Australian Extreme Chilli Condiments.
Cheese Face Challenge – Be the first to finish a bowl of grated cheese.
Tower of Cheese Challenge – A bit like Jenga only with small blocks of cheddar cheese! The highest tower wins.
REGISTRATIONS OPEN CLOSER TO THE EVENT
Wings challenge Firing Line
Woman napalm noodles
Ash winning
FOOD FOR EVERYONE
Our food vendors have a mandate to provide at least four chilli-and cheese-hemed offerings, as well as regular food.
Even our cold drinks and desserts will provide some chilli and cheese theming.
vege tacos
burger
Vegan and Vegetarian FriendLy
JUST FOR THE KIDS
Kids can enjoy the Animal Nursery and some Art & Craft Activities, and facepainting.
Meet ChiChi our mascot!
Prizes for the Cutest Chilli or Cheese Costume, so get that cute costume ready for your little one.
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animal nursery kid
ponies and animals
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Facepainted girl
CHILLI PLANTS and GROWING ADVICE
Infusion plant 2
CELEBRITY GUEST CHEFS
FREE WORKSHOPS IN THE WORKSHOP MARQUEE
FREE WORKSHOPS
Knife with chillies
Infusion plant 2
infusion pots
LIVE MUSIC
Great live music is always peppered in between the chilli challenges on stage. All the way from Queensland, we have guitar maestro, Sean Mullen, gracing our stage playing some hot guitar including snippets of his Satriani Tribute. He’ll also be joined by Sandra Beynon on vocals as they perform some classic rock tunes as Missy Vader and the Dark Force
Sean Mullen Guitar
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THE AFTERBURN BAR
Grab a refreshing chilli-themed cocktail and choose from a range of favourite bevvies.
VIP CHAMPAGNE EXPERIENCE TICKETS
Enjoy VIP marquee seating, front row VIP challenge seating, French Champagne, grazing platter for two, a goodie bag and a chilli plant!
Only 6 TABLES AVAILABLE.
OUR CHARITY PARTNER - TBA
Our festivals always support a local charity and we are in the process of finalising who that will be.
Participate
Want to be a vendor or an exhibitor of some kind at our festival? Our one-stop application form makes it easy to apply.
Podcast
Scarlett Habanero interviews chilli-heads from all over the world to talk about anything spicy!
Sponsors
We love to have all sorts of people involved in our festivals as sponsors – big or small – in-kind or cash. Here’s our CCO (that’s Chief Chilli Officer) Scarlett Habanero to tell you about why your business might be a good fit for our festivals.
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