UPDATE Prematurity Awareness Month

For every $5 membership in the month of November, the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute will donate $4 to the March of Dimes in support of National Prematurity Awareness month. Visit their web site for all the activities and ways you can support them around the country. We want every baby to grow up to be a marshmallow roaster.

Want to Roast better?

Let us show you how. Our professional roasters 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 recent 4-T Roast Test here.

Roasting Judge Jerry Grinstead demonstrated the perfect color for roasted mallows. We use a mallow color continuum for judging. And, ideal mallow color, like most other attributes is based on a mallow color bell curve. Using the proper PPE (personal protective equipment) and using the Smorstix skewer, allows for a safe and consistent roasting and judging experience. The mallow Jerry is showing in the photo above, from the Santa Cruz Seabright Beach Roast, is a Campfire Marshmallow. We get consistently good results with Campfire mallows and Smorstix. The color was perfect and we recommend they be used at sanctioned NMRI events. Plush Puffs gourmet vanilla bean mallows are typically used at all gourmet roasting events, though we recently tested a totally Trader Joe's S'mores using Trader Joe's vanilla marshmallows with Trader Joe's Graham Crackers and their milk chocolate bars.  In July in Santa Barbara CA and again in August in a controlled environment at the firepit at the Institute in Sacramento, we found most roasters preferred Kraft Sta-Puffed or Campfire marshmallows, and Nabisco graham crackers and Hershey's chocolate bars.

What is the NMRI Virtual Think Tank?

We like to ponder all things mallow and attend Marshmallow festivities. 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 month in Germany!

Note:  The October 3, 4 and 5 NMRI Roast in Tbilisi in Georgia (country) has been postponed until after the "pullout" of Russian troops begins. Marshmallow Roasting and Russian invasions do not bode well for either judges or roasters. And marshmallows tend to gum up the tank tracks.

Definition:  Russian Pullout 
        March in backwards and say you are leaving.

The NMR Institute apologizes for any offense taken by Russian invaders over our comments ................. NOT

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.

Want more information about the NMR Institute or membership?  Just fill out the form and we'll answer your questions.

Newest roasting judge
Robert Wilson a.k.a. “Marshmallow Boy” is our latest October member. We hope to see Robert and friends at some our our Roasts.

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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 for president of the United States. No part of this site may be reproduced by any means, other than by typewriter with carbon copies, without the written permission of the National Marshmallow Roasters Institute.

No Very few fur-bearing animals were harmed during the creation of this web site. Allergy alert: Marshmallows used in competition may contain gelatin, but we doubt they will make you gravely debillitatingly 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. 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. You are not responsible enough to drink until age 21, so you should join the Army, and do please refrain from roasting marshmallows without adult 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.

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!