Six of the nation’s most interesting butchers have been named to kind New Zealand’s nationwide butchery group – the Hellers Sharp Blacks, – and can compete on the World Butchers’ Problem scheduled for Paris in March 2025.
The group, who secured the bronze medal on the final World Butchers’ Problem in 2022, has the same really feel with Riki Kerekere as soon as once more named as group captain, together with returning members Reuben Sharples from Aussie Butcher New Lynn, Dan Klink from Mangawhai Meat Store, Corey White from Skills4Work, Luka Younger from PAK’nSAVE Kaitaia, and Cherise Redden from PAK’nSAVE Glen Innes.
There can be new blood within the group with Samantha Weller from New World Ravenswood becoming a member of the group as a reserve. Samantha comes with profitable kind, having taken out the title of World Champion Butcher Apprentice on the competitors in 2018.
Kerekere says, “It was a tough choice course of as we have been spoilt for alternative with an extended record of unimaginable candidates. In the end, the choice committee has caught with the identical group with the thrilling addition of Samantha as our reserve. We’re battle-hardened from the final competitors and we all know what we have to do as a group to get from third to first. Make no mistake, we’re there to win and we’ll be making ready accordingly.”
The group announcement comes one 12 months after the Hellers Sharp Blacks proudly secured the bronze medal in final 12 months’s competitors in Sacramento, USA.
Dubbed by many because the ‘Olympics of Meat’, the ninth World Butchers’ Problem will fittingly happen at Paris Area Sud 6, a part of the spectacular Paris Expo Exhibition Centre, at present making ready to welcome the world’s finest handball and weightlifting athletes for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The 2025 World Butchers’ Problem is predicted to develop to 18 competing groups, up from the 13 nations represented in Sacramento final 12 months. Every nationwide group of six members can have three hours and thirty minutes to artistically craft a themed show of value-added cuts, utilizing a facet of beef, a facet of pork, a complete lamb, and 5 chickens.
The Hellers Sharp Blacks squad is made up of the next members:
Riki Kerekere (Group Captain, Product Developer) – Hellers, Auckland
Reuben Sharples (Boning and Trimming) – Aussie Butcher New Lynn, Auckland
Dan Klink (Boning and Trimming) – Mangawhai Meat Store, Northland
Corey White (Product Developer) – Skills4Work, Auckland
Luka Younger (Product Developer) – PAK’nSAVE Kaitaia, Northland
Cherise Redden (Garnish and Show) – PAK’nSAVE Glen Innes, Auckland
Samantha Weller (Reserve) – New World Ravenswood, Christchurch
The Hellers Sharp Blacks are sponsored by Hellers, Beef + Lamb New Zealand, New Zealand Pork, Victory Knives and Rum and Que.
Additionally travelling to compete on the World Champion Butcher Apprentice and Younger Butcher in 2025 and signify New Zealand on the world stage would be the ANZCO Meals Younger Butchers of New Zealand.
Present squad members embody:
Brad Gillespie, New World Rototuna – Younger ButcherRhys Tamanui, Waipawa Butchery – Butcher ApprenticeJames Smith, The Tattooed Butcher – Younger ButcherMorgan Moore, New World Motueka – Butcher Apprentice
The total squad can be introduced following the subsequent 12 months’s Pact Packaging Younger Butcher & ANZCO Meals Butcher Apprentice of the 12 months competitors – New Zealand’s home competitions – in August 2024, with the winners becoming a member of these already confirmed to be on airplane in 2025.
The ANZCO Meals Younger Butchers of New Zealand are sponsored by ANZCO Meals, Victory Knives, Rum and Que and Energetic Refrigeration.
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