A former Nice British Bake Off contestant and an ex-Royal Navy diver are among the many contestants bidding to win this 12 months’s World Porridge Making Championship.
The contest is being held in individual for the primary time in three years, having taken place just about in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid pandemic.
Final 12 months’s winner, Mirian Groot, a vegan photographer, recipe developer and author from the Netherlands, is heading to Scotland to enter in individual for the primary time.
She can be amongst 27 opponents attempting to win the title and the Golden Spurtle prize, with hopefuls travelling to the Highland village of Carrbridge from Australia, Iceland, Cyprus, Poland and Sweden, in addition to the UK.
Michael Chakraverty, a author and contestant in collection 10 of the Nice British Bake Off, is collaborating on this 12 months’s competitors, which can be held on Saturday October 8.
Different opponents embrace Alice Ljungberg, an 18-year-old porridge fanatic from Sweden, Toby Wilson, a self-trained chef and “oataphile” from Sydney, Australia and Eamon (Ginge) Fullen, a former Royal Navy clearance diver.
Digital contests over the past two years have seen opponents submitting video entries solely, however Karen Henderson, the primary organiser of this 12 months’s occasion, stated they had been trying ahead to welcoming porridge followers to Carrbridge.
She stated: “After holding a digital competitors for the previous two years through the pandemic, we are able to’t wait to welcome opponents and guests from throughout to world again to Carrbridge for this 12 months’s competitors. Spurtles on the prepared!”
Alan Meikle, director of sponsors, Hamlyns of Scotland, stated: “The World Porridge Making Championships is a novel and particular occasion, and we’re actually trying ahead to seeing what the opponents give you to impress the judges this 12 months.”