HBHS Win Medals in Waikato Culinary 'Fare'

On Thursday 28^th June, twenty two Year 12 and 13 food technology students travelled to WINTEC to participate in the Waikato Culinary Fare. In this competition they competed against other secondary schools in either “static” or “live” food competitions.  For the static competition the students made decorated cupcakes or a cold dessert at school the day before and took them along for judging on the morning of the competition.  For the live competition, students chose to enter either a creative pizza or soup category.  The other live category entered was “mystery box” in which a team of two, cooks and serves a main course for two people within one hour.  The difficulty factor for the students is that until the morning of the competition, they do not know what ingredients will be in their mystery box and so cannot practice or choose a recipe until the morning of the competition.

 It was a tough competition against many other experienced school students, but overall the Boys' High students did very well.  In the static competition, Jonas Clarke received a bronze medal for his banoffee pie dessert as well as a gold medal in the live soup competition for his leek, broccoli and blue cheese soup (our very first gold medal over the three years we have been competing).  Kane Maxwell also did well to receive a silver medal for his pumpkin soup.  In the creative pizza category both Jackson Holmes and Tracy Tang received a silver medal and Jake Divett received a bronze medal.  Lastly in the mystery box category, Daniel Lawrence and Callum Douglas received a silver medal each. 

It was the first time that these students had ever participated in a food competition, so there was a lot of apprehension beforehand, but despite the nerves I think they enjoyed their day.  Well done boys.  I am looking forward to even greater results in 2013 when you compete for the second time.

By Mrs Andrea Marr, senior food technology teacher.