UK YOUNG BUTCHERS COMPETITION


CRAFTBUTCHER l JUNE 2017 PREMIER YOUNG BUTCHER 2017 Sponsors:


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Losing out by the narrowest


of margins, but perhaps ironically winning most silverware, was twenty-year- old Crosby Management apprentice and Premier Young Butcher 2017 Runner


James Gracey’s winning display!


JAMES Gracey of Quayles of Dromore, County Down, Northern Ireland is the UK's best young butcher, winning


by just five marks, less than 1 percent of total marks in the closest result in the competition's history, to take the title of Premier Young Butcher 2017 at Meatup in the MK Arena, Milton Keynes last month. Premier Young Butcher


is recognised as the most demanding craſt skills competition open to 18 - 23 year-old butcher apprentices across the UK. It assesses innovation, craſt, technical


during five hours of intense competition. Winning the Ready to


Eat category with a 'Chicken and Smoked Eel Terrine' but missing out on third place with a 'Black Pudding and Apple Stuffed Shoulder' in the Stuffed Roast category was nineteen-year-old MEAT Ipswich apprentice Jack Eagles from C Lidgate of Holland Park, London. Also doing well, from


Extravagant stuffed pork


Display, Stuffed Roast and Runner Up in the Kitchen Ready categories and third place for Seam Butchery and Barbecue. Gracey narrowly beat


nearest rival Tomas Lea of Walter Smith Fine Foods


Chicken and smoked eel terrine


skills and working practices in Seam Butchery, Ready to Eat, Stuffed Roast, Barbecue, Kitchen Ready and Display


Hard's of Halstead in Essex was fellow MEAT Ipswich apprentice, twenty-two-year- old Elsie Yardley winning Seam Butchery of a Topside of Beef and placed Runner Up in both Barbecue and in the Stuffed Roast category with a 'Spanish Rabbit and Pork Roast'. Elsie also


narrowly missed


out on trophies in the Display and Ready to Eat categories with a 'Pork and Duck Egg Pie'.


Seamed topside of beef


Up Tomas Lea working for Walter Smith at their Wyevale store in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Winning the Barbecue and


Kitchen Ready categories, Tomas was Runner Up in Seam Butchery, Display and Ready to Eat with a 'Gourmet Picnic Pie', while also coming third with a 'Luxury Stuffed Pork Roast' in the Stuffed Roast category. Never the less, it was Newry


Southern Regional College apprentice Gracey that scored over the others, winning vital marks from Judges Keith Fisher, Viv Harvey and Danny Upson. Culminating in him coming top for innovation, texture, taste and palatability as well as for hygiene and good working practices, which gave him an edge in winning


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