UPDATE Annual Bexley Ohio Chapter Roast - June 19th

Yes. Ken Grace once again hosted the sanctioned NMRI event in Bexley Ohio. He's our Vice-President, Research and Development at the Institute. As usual this was a potluck, campout and of course, Marshmallow Roast!

Check out our other upcoming NMRI sanctioned roasts, festivals, and events on the Calendar of Events. As you can see on our calendar, June and July are pretty much filled with events. The free days turn out to be travel days for us.

A perfectly roasted marshmallow!

Featured Festival
The Ligonier Marshmallow Festival. September 4 - 7, 2009 in Ligonier, Indiana on Main Street. This three-day festival features crafts, amusement rides, cruise in car show, live entertainment, games, food, music, orchestra and parades, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.  Free admission. 
Contact info: Larry Stahly at 260-894-4159 stahly@ligtel.com or Tammy Deel 260-215-1982, tdeel@ligtel.com

Man muss die feste Feiern wie sie fallen!
(You must celebrate the festivals as they come! or - Any excuse to Party!)
We just love those Germans and their idiomatic expressions.

Alps Roast

The roast in the Italian Alps was a bit soggy. But we had a lot of fun. Just a bit too much snow for May. But the late season skiing made up for the lack of roasting. We did get in a couple good roasts and introduced S'mores to the Italians, French and Germans skiing with us for the week.

The Poets' Roast is coming up just down the road from one of our favorite places in the world, the Frost farm in Derry, NH. Don't miss the good poetry, mending wall basics, lightning bug chasing, and now, marshmallow roasting down the road less traveled! Last week in June, and we're hoping for some hot, humid, lightning bug weather.

Want to Roast better?

Let us show you how.

Our professional roasters from all over the world will help you learn the techniques to become one of the elite members of your local chapter of the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute (NMRI). Mentoring is available. We will "train the trainer" (for lack of a better cliché). So you can lead yourself and your teams to fun and profitability. And as always, perfect roasting is our ultimate goal! Remember the four T's when judging the roasted mallows (Tint, Texture, Toastability, and Taste). See the results of our 4-T Roast Test here.

What is the NMRI Virtual Think Tank?

We like to ponder most anything mallow and attend Marshmallow festivities around the world. We like the Puff Girls' confections (See The Perfect Roast page) and the annual Ligonier Indiana Marshmallow Festival. The Munich Mallowfest is scheduled to be visited during our annual sojourn to the Oktoberfest this September in Germany!

Roast the Mallow!

Whether in Paris (rôtissoires des Guimauves!) or Munich  (Mäusespeck Grillen!) or sunny Santa Barbara (Roast the Mallow!), we don't just sit around the camp fire philosophizing about roasting marshmallows, or wishing we had some S'mores... NO!  We Roast the Mallow! And we do it around the world...Virtually... with YOU ... our extended teams of roasters.

And for the perfect roast, Visit our Perfect Roast page where you'll find information and a link to Smorstix, the official skewers of the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute. And the skewer preferred by roasters at the fire pits at Northstar Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, CA.

Want more information about the NMR Institute or membership, or just want to say Hi? 

Email:  MisterMallow@NMRInstitute.com

Newest roasting judge
Nels Ingebretson, from Porsgrunn Norway, is our latest member. We hope to see him at the Childrens Day Roast. Childrens Day is Scandinavia's biggest one-day event for children, Parades, entertainment for children.
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Disclaimer | We take no responsibility for burned or dropped marshmallows, blistered fingers or tongues, ants in sleeping bags, lost (or confiscated) skewers, stomach aches, wet wood, rain, acts of God that ruin your NMRI roasts, or the fickleness of the American voter to elect anyone competent to the congress of the United States. No part of this site may be reproduced by any means (other than by typewriter at Starbuck), without the stone-chiseled permission of Mister Mallow at the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute.

No Very few fur-bearing animals were harmed during the creation of this web site (There was a gerbil that got caught in a bag of marshmallow and died eating his way out (what a pleasant way to go, though). Allergy alert: Marshmallows used in competition may contain gelatin, but we doubt they will make you gravely or  debilitatingly ill unless you are a level 4 or 5 Vegan. Not recommended for persons with sugar-restricted diets.

Marshmallows may cause irritability, sleeplessness or implosive constipation (ouch!) after prolonged consumption. Contents under pressure when heated over open flame. BHT added to preserve freshness (Mmmm...BHT).

Caution: Marshmallows have recently been found to cause some laboratory rats to rip through their cages, fly across the room and brutally murder innocent rhesus monkeys at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Shake monkeys well before using.

Please use a handsfree device for your cell phone while roasting. Marshmallows are not to be combined with other radioisotopes except under the advice of an official NMRI Roasting Judge or of our staff cellular and molecular biologist at the institute. Avoid prolonged exposure to campfires.

The truth is out there. Use no hooks without proper bait. Eight is your lucky number. This site not intended for use by Republicans, Democrats or anyone under the age of 21. If you are not responsible enough to drink until age 21, you should not join the Army or roast marshmallow either, and do please refrain from roasting marshmallows without NMRI supervision.

NMRI literature printed on recycled predeceased trees that were determined to have fallen of their own free will (without making a sound in the forest). Level 5 Vegans (those who eat nothing that casts a shadow) awarded free membership, when and if they come down from out of the Redwood Trees in California.

Disputes between roasters will be mediated by the International Order of the Mallow in Paris France during the NMRI Festival of the Mallow, on the Champs Elysee at Cafe Etats Unis, the third Wednesday in June in Leap years at midnight.... Wenn Gott will, natürlich!