SACA | News | GOLDCREST Young Chef of the Year finalists announced

This year’s GOLDCREST Young Chef of the Year competition is more challenging than ever before, with a special focus on the five senses and molecular gastronomy.

Each contestant needs to prepare a four-course tasting menu for ten people using one or more GOLDCREST products per dish and each dish needs to focus on one of the five human senses - sight, sound, touch, taste or smell and to make the competition even more interesting, one of the four dishes prepared needs to have a molecular gastronomy aspect to it.

The finalists listed below will be battling it out on Thursday 25 October at the Centre for Culinary Excellence at the South African Chefs Association.

The finalists are...

Lauren Frost; Capsicum Culinary Studio, Cape Town

Lenanje Spangenberg; Capsicum Culinary Studio, Boksburg

Charmaine Daffue; The Capital Hotel School & Training Academy

Maria Ohlson de Fine; HTA School of Culinary Art

Grant Scheltens; The Capital Hotel School

Dean Seddon; HTA School of Culinary Art, in-service trainee

Darren O’Donovan; HTA School of Culinary Art

Ntokozo Dlamini; HTA School of Culinary Art, in-service trainee

Liezl Bruce; UJ School of Tourism & Hospitality

Dominique Hobson; HTA School of Culinary Art

Abigail Evans; HTA School of Culinary Art

Luxola Tabato; National Youth Chefs Training Programme

The 2012 GOLDCREST Young Chef of the Year winner will win an all-expenses paid trip to the UK for a week long, culinary experience in one of Heston Blumenthal’s restaurants (The Fat Duck in Bray, The Hinds Head in Bray, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Hyde Park London).

The school with the most entries into the competition will be winning a copy of The Big Fat Duck Cookbook valued at R3500.00.

We are pleased to announce that the winning school is HTA School of Culinary Art!