All Competitions articles – Page 6
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NewsBritish lamb comes out on top in French competition
French consumers have chosen a Quality Standard Mark lamb product from Great Britain as the best product of the year.In a competition organised by Dutch market research agency Q&A, the vacuum-packed cannon come out on top.The winning product: Cannon Of Lamb Glazed With Rosemary And Mustard.In the process of the ...
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NewsFrance crowned World Butchers’ Challenge champions
France have been crowned the winners of the World Butchers’ Challenge, beating teams from Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand in their debut at the event.Each team had three hours to turn a side of beef, a side of pork and a whole lamb into a display of value-added cuts ...
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NewsBritish Sausage Week build up begins with competition judging
Judging for ‘Britain’s Best Bangers’ takes place this week as the build up to the 19th annual British Sausage Week from 31st October to 6th November commences.Head judge and master butcher Keith Fisher will lead the team of judges, which will this year include a ‘senior sausage selector’ selected following ...
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NewsApprentices invited to enter Premier Young Butcher Competition at Meatup
The Premier Young Butcher Competition will return to Meatup at ArenaMK in Milton Keynes next year and butchery apprentices from across the UK are being invited to take part.Last year's Premier Young Butcher winner, James Henshaw.The competition is open to all 18 to 23 year old butchery apprentices throughout the ...
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NewsHannan Meats voted Great Taste Supreme Champion
The title of Great Taste Supreme Champion 2016 has been awarded to Hannan Meats’ Glenarm Shorthorn 4 Rib Roast.(L-R) John Farrand, Guild of Fine Food, Peter Hannan of Hannan Meats and Alex Dower, Harrods.Produced in Armagh in Northern Ireland, the product, dry aged in a Himalayan salt chamber for a ...
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NewsTeam GB set to compete at World Butchers Challenge
The six butchers representing Great Britain at the World Butchers Challenge landed in Australia this weekend ahead of the competition taking place on 10th September in Queensland.Nicknamed the ‘British Beefeaters’, the British team will compete against butchers from Australia, New Zealand and France for the title of Grand Champions.The 'British ...
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NewsJudge wanted for British Sausage Week
Organisers behind British Sausage Week, beginning on Monday 31st October, are searching for a ‘senior sausage selector’ to become one of the judges to taste over 400 sausages entered into the Best Banger competition.All candidates will be asked, as part of their interview, to describe their experiences of sausages, their ...
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NewsWorldSkills butchery competition final six named
The six finalists for the WorldSkills Butchery competition have been named.Hannah Blakey, seen here in action in the Wales heat, will compete in the final.Hannah Blakey, a 17-year-old apprentice at Leeds City College, is both the youngest competitor and the first female to make it to the finals.She will be ...
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NewsTom Parker Bowles to present 2017 Smithfield Awards
British food writer and food critic Tom Parker Bowles will present the 2017 Butchers Q Guild Smithfield Awards at Ironmongers Hall, London on 1st February 2017.Tom Parker Bowles will present the Butchers Q Guild’s 2017 Smithfield Awards.Parker Bowles is a restaurant critic for The Mail on Sunday as well as ...
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NewsChampion butcher crowned at Royal Welsh Show
Mark McArdle, of McArdle Family Butchers of Chirk, has been crowned champion of Wales at the final of the Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) Butchers’ Club butchery competition.The butchery competition took place at this year’s Royal Welsh Show, and featured two finalists under pressure to produce a ...
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NewsGreat Yorkshire Competition to be held in Bradford
The Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage & Products Competition will be staged at the Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford on Sunday 30th October.Organised by the Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils’ (CYBC), the 2016 competition will be the 28th annual Great Yorkshire Competition.Last year the competition was opened out to entrants ...
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NewsHCC sets up butchery competition
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) has launched a competition for members of its Butchers’ Club with a meat cutting contest during the Royal Welsh Show.Two successful applicants will be selected to compete for the top spot and will showcase their butchery skills and product innovation using Welsh ...
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NewsButcher sets new sausage world record
Steven Cusack of Davidsons Butchers in Inverurie is now a Guinness World Record holder (subject to Guinness verification) after setting a new sausage-making world record at the Taste of Grampian food festival this weekend.Cusack, who made 54 sausages using a Specially Selected Pork recipe mix in the 60-second time limit, ...
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NewsQ Guild BBQ supreme champion crowned
Robert Alexander Butchers in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, has been crowned overall supreme barbecue champion at the UK final of the Butchers Q Guild 2016 BBQ Competition with its Coffee Crusted BBQ Steak.The Butchers Q Guild’s 2016 BBQ Competition overall supreme champion Drew McKenzie, centre, of Robert Alexander Butchers in Port ...
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NewsButchers invited to take part in NFMFT BBQ competition
The National Federation of Meat and Food Traders (NFMFT) is this weekend hosting its National BBQ Competition and is encouraging butchers to enter and take part.The event will take place on Sunday 22nd May and will form part of meat industry supplier Dalziel’s open day at its depot in Newbury.Butchers ...
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NewsStrong performance from Team UK at International Young Butcher Competition
UK International Butcher Team, Lucy Crawshaw and Joe Smith, impressed judges at the International Young Butcher Competition at IFFA in Frankfurt, Germany, last weekend.UK International Butcher Team, Lucy Crawshaw and Joe Smith.The duo competed in six categories against other apprentices from Austria, France, Germany, Holland and Switzerland.Team UK finished fifth ...
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NewsPremier Young Butcher 2016 crowned
James Henshaw of Taylor’s Farm Shop in Lathom, Lancashire, has been crowned Britain’s best young butcher after beating seven other elite butcher apprentices at the finals of the Premier Young Butcher Competition 2016.James Henshaw with NFMFT president, Jim Sperring and master of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, Patricia Dart.The competitors ...
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NewsAHDB pulled pork campaign shortlisted for Marketing Week award
AHDB Pork has for the first time been shortlisted for a Marketing Week award in the Market Disruptor category.The Market Disruptor award recognises an organisation which has changed its market or industry through use of a new business model, changing focus or reaching new consumers.AHDB Pork has been shortlisted for ...
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NewsQ Guild butchers prepare for UK BBQ contest final
Q Guild butchers across the nation are gearing up for the UK final of their 2016 barbecue competition.2015 Butchers Q Guild BBQ Competition champions and runners-up are pictured after the presentation ceremony.Winners of the seven regional heats have been announced, and UK winners in each of six BBQ product categories ...
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NewsPresenting the ‘British Beefeaters’
The 2016 team of butchers representing Great Britain in the World Butchers’ Challenge have now been announced.The 'British Beefeaters' will represent GB at the World Butchers' Challenge.The six team members are as follows: Maurice Stephenson from Nigel Fredericks (captain), Tom Wood from Huntleys Country Stores (vice captain), Gary Raeburn from ...
