Who’s for porridge?
Flahavan’s has announced specifics of its inaugural Nationwide Porridge Awards 2022. The competitiveness will be open up to the hotel sector this yr and has been produced
to assist glow a gentle on the superb ground breaking techniques lodges can perform an crucial purpose in placing domestically-sourced Irish oats at the heart of their breakfast encounter.
“The concept of a Countrywide Porridge Awards has been on our radar for some time,” claimed Shane O’Hanrahan, Flahavan’s Foodservice Business enterprise Growth Manager. “We want to admit the impressive and innovative ways hotels’ culinary teams can elevate the breakfast experience for their Irish and intercontinental company by incorporating our world-class Irish wholegrain oats into their breakfast offerings. The time has arrive to rejoice and reward that hard work.”
Entries for this years’ Awards will have to be submitted by 28th October 2022 and must, of study course, integrate Flahavan’s Oats – Ireland’s favourite porridge oats. Participants can submit their entry by way of the Flahavan’s website by finishing a temporary on-line kind, as nicely as uploading photos that depict their entry greatest. Well-recognised chef, food stuff author with the Irish Situations and contributor to RTE’s The Nowadays Display, Eunice Power, has been invited to choose the awards.
The awards will be break up into a few types:
1. Best Traditional Porridge
2. Most Innovative Porridge
3. Greatest Advertising of Porridge
The entries will be whittled down to a shortlist of 10 in total, which will be personally judged by Eunice Electrical power together with a member of the Flahavan’s team at every single hotel, with the winner due to be announced by the finish of November.
“I’m honoured to have been invited to choose these awards by Flahavan’s,” reported Eunice Energy. “I grew up on Flahavan’s Oats and carry on to delight in them for my breakfast, as properly as incorporating it as an component into numerous of my recipes. In my overview of the shortlisted porridge entries, I’ll be hunting out for essential attributes that make a great porridge such as texture, flavour, presentation and origin of elements. As breakfast is such an critical food in any hotel knowledge, I’ll also be looking at how inventive each individual resort has been in optimising their guests’ porridge experience in phrases of toppings, accompaniments and presentation. You simply cannot choose these awards without having also taking into consideration the regular guest profile of the institution – corporate vs leisure visitors, and ensuring the breakfast presenting is the right way tailored to guests’ needs.”
A winner will be announced in each of the 3 groups, with an in general winner picked out