The Australian Culinary Federation Fonterra Foodservice National Apprentice Competition Final was held at West Coast Institute of Training, Joondalup Campus on Wednesday 14th October.
Apprentices from all Australian States & Territories arrived Monday & hit the ground running on Tuesday morning when it was off to the markets with a budget to purchase their ingredients for the competition. With products sponsored from Fonterra, Bidvest, Nestle Professional & Krio Krush combined with their purchases the teams spent the afternoon preparing for the competition & tweaking the final details of their menus. They have come together for a week of comaradrie, networking & education including dining at White Salt, touring The Swan Valley & culminating in a Gala Dinner at WCIT on Thursday evening. The awards were presented at the beginning of the evening prior to being treated to an exceptional meal prepared by the ACF National Youth Team.
Western Australian apprentices cleaned up at the awards night taking out top honours in 3 categories Culinary Student, 2nd Year Apprentice Chef, 3rd/4th Year Apprentice Chef, Northern Territory was awarded champion 1st Year Apprentice Chef & first time competitor Rachel Zwarts from South Australia prepared the best omelette on the day. Perth 3rd Year Apprentice & ACF National Youth Team member Brody – Young Steedman from Co – Op Dining was named Champion Apprentice of the Year taking home a R211 Ultra sponsored by Robot Coupe
The NAC is a culmination of many apprentice competitions being held throughout the year in each state and territory and includes training chefs in each year of apprenticeship and a culinary students section. The best apprentice from each apprentice year and culinary student section from each state and territory are brought together to compete and decide the overall winners. The numbers of competitors, training schools, culinary educators that the NAC touches is staggering with in excess of 4,000 culinary students and teachers, each with links to industry resulting in exposure to over 10,000 chefs throughout Australia.
Medal Results
Culinary Students
Jerome Poret SA Bronze
Christel Darion Vic Silver
Kuo heng Lin WA Gold & Champion Culinary Student
2nd Year Apprentice Chefs
Joshua Lee NSW Bronze
Kelsea House TAS Silver
Wade Fordham VIC Silver
Nick Donovan ACT Silver
Ross Maxwell SA Silver
Mark Johnson WA Gold & Champion 2nd Year Apprentice
1st Year Apprentice Chefs
Hugh Walters TAS Silver
Kasae Fraser VIC Silver
Linh Khanh Tran WA Silver
Rachel Zwarts SA Silver
Zoe Drew NSW Silver
Christopher Carr QLD Silver
Jasmine Sawa ACT Gold
Maria Hoad WA Gold & Champion 1st Year Apprentice
3rd/4th Year Apprentice Chefs
Sheila Mae Hobbs QLD Participation
Sammantha Devlin ACT Silver
Tumelo Nthupi SA Silver
Tenille Brazel NSW Silver
Brad Sutton VIC Gold
Brody Young – Steedman WA Gold Champion 3/4th year Apprentice & Apprentice of the Year
For more information please contact Deb Foreman [email protected]
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