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Showcasing culinary excellence
Annually we hold our ‘Chef of the Year’ competition where our Chefs take on the opportunity to showcase their impressive skills, knowledge, and the high-quality meals that they serve daily to our residents.
The competition enables our chefs to shout about all of the pioneering ways they are able to serve our residents highly nutritional, great tasting, and exceptionally presented meals.
All of the meals that the competing chefs present are created from the same local, high quality, fresh ingredients that they use when preparing meals for our residents.
Applications are open to all chefs across the organisation regardless of level, where they are asked to create and present a 3-course menu including a starter, main and dessert. One of the courses is to be prepared to IDDSI level 6 standard to demonstrate their skills in this area.
IDDSI stands for International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative, and is a framework used to determine the texture of modified food and drink for people living with dysphagia (swallowing difficulties). For Chef of the Year, our finalists have to pick one dish from their three course menu to produce at an IDDSI Level 6 texture (pureed).
This year's Chef of the Year competition has now concluded and the winner was Lewis Cutler! Lewis is Chef Manager at West Hall in West Byfleet.
The 4 finalists for 2024 were:
The competition consists of 3 rounds where only 1 successful chef can claim the respected title ‘Chef of the Year’.
Menus are judged by our service improvement team on:
The semi-finalists will be judged on:
The four chefs with the highest scores went through to our live cook-off at Leeds Catering College on the 4 July.
On 4 July the 4 finalists competed in a live cook-off at Leeds Catering College. Among the judges were Anchor’s Managing Director of Care Services Rob Martin, Anchor’s Director of Care Quality Cath Holmes, and Managing Director of Efoods Steve McFall.
The judges took into consideration the nutritional value of the meals, use of sustainable/home grown/local ingredients, food waste and how residents have been involved.
Find out how Anchor take great pride in high quality, seasonal, nutritionally balanced food
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