Tesco Best Steak Competition 2009
The winner of this year's Tesco Best Steak competition has been announced.
Mr. Samuel Gibson of Sixemilecross was announced as the Winner of the Tesco Best Speciality Steak competition 2009 for his Limousin steak at this years’ Balmoral Show on Thursday 14thMay.
His granddaughter, Jill Nutt, accepted the prize on his behalf from the Minister of Agriculture, Michelle Gildernew MLA, and Cliff Kells of Tesco. Samuel has been a life-long supplier of cattle to Omagh Meats, finishing over 500 cattle per year.
Second prize was awarded to PJ Kearney from Plumbridge for his Aberdeen Angus steak and third prize went to Raymond Clarke from Beragh for his Aberdeen Angus steak. The other five finalists were Raymond Crawford from Newtownstewart, Leslie Dunn from Bready, Sidney Jack from Ardstraw, Stephen Lowry from Cullion and Patricia McCollum from Limavady.
The ‘Specially Selected Steak’ competition which is run in conjunction with Tesco, the Foyle Food Group and the Livestock and Meat Commission, is open to all members of the Foyle Valley Beef Producers Club who can enter up to two animals each. Once again, there was a large number of entries this year, all of excellent quality. The eight steaks in the final were cooked and judged in front of a large audience at the Tesco Demonstration Stand and judged on appearance, taste and tenderness to find the winning steak. The judges felt that Samuel Gibson’s Steak had a slight edge in each of the categories. The grand fry-off and judging attracted a large crowd of show visitors as well as many of the farmers whose cuts of meat were entered in the competition.
The FFG would like to thank all producers that entered the competition and would like to congratulate all the finalists, especially this year’s winner Samuel Gibson.
