Truffle Hogs sniff out a national winner for Boness butchers
Innovative tasty Truffled Hog pork parcels have trotted off with a top Scottish award for Boness butchers Thomas Burns & Son.
The specially crafted product has won the coveted top Diamond Award in the 2024 Scottish Craft Butchers “Make It With Pork” evaluations, marking it out as the best in Scotland.
Scottish sliced sausage championship title goes ‘doon the watter’ to Dunoon
A crash course in sliced sausage-making from his expert father has led to a Dunoon butcher lifting the fiercely contested Scottish Beef Sliced Sausage Championship 2024.
Newly crowned champion Richard Longster said the title was “the stuff of dreams” as he helped put Dunoon on the food map by winning the national championship for one of the country’s most iconic products.
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Read moreScotland’s Apprentice of the Year takes tea at No 10
Three years ago Marc Ingram suffered from dyslexia and crippling shyness and didn’t know if he would ever be able to secure a job or even leave the house. Yet this week, the 19-year-old butcher from Falkirk was taking tea with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in recognition of his outstanding achievements.
Read more“MAKE IT WITH PORK” PRODUCT EVALUATION 2024 Sponsored by Dalziel
A COMPETITION AND OPPORTUNITY TO AWARD WINNING PORK PRODUCTS TO PROMOTE DURING PORKTOBER & BEYOND
One Diamond Award will be presented for the best product.
Gold and Silver Awards to all those worthy of such recognition.
To be held on Thursday 8th August 2024
Forth Valley College, Alloa Campus, Devon Road, Alloa, FK10 1PX
Tel: 01259 215121
2024 BEEF SLICE SAUSAGE SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIP Sponsored by Colin Hewitson
A COMPETITION TO FIND SCOTLAND`S BEST BEEF SLICE SAUSAGE
One Diamond Award will be presented for the best product.
Gold and Silver Awards to all those worthy of such recognition.
To be held on Thursday 8th August 2024
Forth Valley College, Alloa Campus, Devon Road, Alloa, FK10 1PX
Tel: 01259 215121
Best beef bangers in Scotland discovered in Rothesay
• Head Doon The Water for best beef link sausages in Scotland
• Rothesay butcher lifts Scottish championship with little known product
• Brothers praise quality over quantity for banger’s success
Diamond daze for Larbert butcher
• Kinnaird Butcher Shop and Deli lifts national industry award
• First national accolade for young business
• Tomahawk treat wows national judges
Scotland’s Black Pudding Champion retains title
• Inverclyde butcher retains Black Pudding Championship
• Wemyss Bay hailed as Scotland’s “Home of the country’s best Black Pudding”
• Unprecedented fourth championship win for butcher
Six Scottish butchers selected for GB squad at Butchery Olympics 2025
Six butchers from Scotland have been named in the squad that will begin training next month in a bid to represent Great Britain in next year’s World Butchers’ Challenge (WBC) in Paris.
Read moreFive Times World Scotch Pie Champion’s recipe changes hands in butchers’ business deal
• Wemyss Bay butcher secures world-beating recipe as Angus butcher retires
• Production of award-winning products to continue as brand is protected
• Scotland’s favourite recipes brought together in one business
2024 Black Pudding Scottish Championship
2024 BLACK PUDDING
SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIP
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