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BBC News
29-03-2025
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Apprentice butcher heading to 'Olympics of Meat'
On the door of a village butchers is a poster, announcing that one of their staff is on his way to not for a Spring break, instead Connor Ringrose will be competing against some of the world's best in the World Butchers Challenge this 24-year-old, who works with his aunt and uncle at Ringrose Butchers in Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, is one of 20 British competitors who will battle it out against participants from 16 different countries in the French tournament has been dubbed the "Olympics of Meat". "The butchery you are doing in the shop, and the butchery you do in Paris is so different," said Mr Ringrose, who will compete in the Young Butcher be eligible, contestants must be under the age of 35 and must still be working through their trade apprenticeship at the time of competing."For the apprentice section, you have got two-and-a-half hours and are provided with a rump of beef, a middle of pork, a side of lamb and two chickens," added Mr Ringrose, who has worked at his family's store since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic."It's breaking it down like you normally would, but you have to go to the extra step in creativity and refinement."You push yourself further than what we would normally do." The first World Butchers Challenge took place in 2011 between Australia and New Zealand, named the Trans-Tasman test 2025 contest at the Porte de Versailles conference centre, a venue at 2024's Paris Olympics, will be the competing nations will be battling it out for The Friedr. Dick Golden Knife Trophy, currently held by Germany's Butcher Wolfpack are assessed on team work, technical skills, the finished product and the presentation of the also ask competitors to be efficient with their meat, with carcass utilisation also marked out of 10 Young Butchers will compete on on Monday, each national team of six will be given three-and-a-half hours to transform a side of beef, a side of pork, a whole lamb and five chickens into a themed display of value-added cuts. Organisers said thousands of spectators were expected over the two winners will be announced at a black-tie dinner on butchered meat is donated to food banks, said organisers."It's been such a surreal experience, and a lot of practice has gone in to the event. I'm training and meeting butchers from all across the country," said Mr Ringrose."I can't quite believe that I'm competing. Looking back at the photos of the last event in Sacramento, it was so busy."It was like a football crowd, and they were all watching butchers. That's crazy."
BBC News
14-03-2025
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Top butchers prepare for World Butchers' Challenge in Plumpton
Some of the best butchers in the UK are training at a college in East Sussex in preparation for an international butchery World Butchers' Challenge, nicknamed the "Olympics of Meat", sees teams create a display of their craft in three and a half the meat is donated to local food banks as even the dress rehearsals see a huge quantity of meat being butchered, organisers the competition in Paris less than a month away, Team GB has been ramping up its practice efforts at Plumpton College in the hope of winning a medal. Captain Ben Tindale said: "For us, it's a chance to promote our industry at the highest level, and to promote the UK and the UK meat industry to the world."Vice-captain Elsie Yardley added that there was "no buzz like it". Plumpton College has some of the best butchery facilities in the UK, which Team GB has been using for training for more than a Jeremy Kerswell said the institution had invested heavily in its butchery facilities in recent years for its apprentices."We've been so pleased to host Team GB because we've seen massive growth in our apprenticeship programmes over the last few years, and this provides such great inspiration for our students, showing them how in demand those skills are," he said. Team GB will also be represented in the competition's Young Butcher section by Kirsty Neil."It's about using the whole animal, and it's about knowing what you're doing the whole way through so that everything is done with respect," she World Butchers' Challenge is to take place on 30 and 31 March.
