Scottish Craft Butchers Commerce Truthful welcomes ‘Butchers Wars’ competitors

Posted on Might 12, 2023

Gifted butchers will go to conflict in Perth this weekend as they battle it out in what organisers describe as the Scottish meat trade’s most fiercely contested competitors.

Butchers do battle at a earlier Butcher Wars competitors in Perth.

Butcher Wars – the theatrical problem of a rustic’s butchers – is an idea imported from Australia and the showdown at this Sunday’s Scottish Craft Butchers Commerce Truthful (14th Might) would be the second time Scotland has staged the occasion.

A few of Britain’s high expertise from Aberdeenshire to Lincolnshire will face-off at Dewars Centre in a singles and pairs championship providing an impressive show of butchery expertise.

Scottish Craft Butchers president George Jarron stated the spectacle can be a spotlight of the day: “We’re going to see among the nation’s most interesting butchers in motion. To witness proficient people on the high of their sport displaying their expertise is one thing that may depart a long-lasting impression on all these concerned within the trade.

“The stage is ready for a present which, I’m positive, will thrill each judges and viewers alike.”

Butcher Wars, which first showcased in Scotland in 2019, is now a mainstay of Scottish Craft Butchers’ biennial Commerce Truthful, though the Covid pandemic prevented the occasion happening in 2021.

Opponents can be given 45 minutes to interrupt down a half lamb (sponsored by High quality Meat Scotland) and a half saddle of pork (sponsored by Robertsons of Ardrossan) to create a show-stopping counter show. Butchers can be judged on a raft of standards together with their look, butchery expertise, meals security, creativity, wastage, well being and security and their remaining show.

Different key components to Sunday’s Truthful will embrace the first-ever Haggis World Championship, the Pork Sausage Championship, the Scottish Sausage Linking Problem and the presentation of Craft Abilities Scotland meat trade achievement awards and product analysis awards.

“It’s the butchers’ huge day trip,” defined George Jarron. “A day when butchers from all corners of the nation – mainland and islands – collect to alternate views and talk about the problems of the day. We are going to welcome a whole bunch of the trade’s key choice makers and unbiased butchers to Perth on Sunday, and there can be one thing for everybody to take pleasure in.

“Scotland’s unbiased butchers stay on the coronary heart of our communities having re-established themselves as essential suppliers through the Covid years,” added George, “however the trade faces difficult occasions now – as do all companies. However Scotland continues to be a meat-eating nation, and our native unbiased butchers stay on the coronary heart of supplying prime quality merchandise ready by consultants.”