CSCAT Combined Services Culinary Arts Team

Well done to our Head of Pastry Chris Morrell for being shortlisted in the Competition Chef category!

Exciting news to share today! We can now reveal the shortlisted nominees for the 2024 Craft Guild of Chefs Awards, which will be announced on Monday 24th June at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House in London. Congratulations to everyone who has been shortlisted >> https://bit.ly/3PONqmP

Members of the CSCAT team have been handpicked to judge at

Team Manager - WO Smith
Team Captain - Sgt Dummelow
Head of Pastry - Sgt Morrell

Great Closing Ceremony at the . No podium for CSCAT this year but we have learned a lot from the experience. Now we need to look forward to the Culinary World Cup in 2026.

After the excitement and emotion of yesterday we would like to thank our sponsors without who we wouldn’t be able to compete:
Sodexo UK & Ireland
Aramark
Compass Group UK & Ireland
Essential Cuisine
Villeroy & Boch
The Worshipful Company of Cooks
Back British Game
AMMO & Company Ltd
Robot Coupe UK
Friedr. Dick GmbH & Co. KG

It’s a Silver! Hard fought and hard won!

CSCAT is prepping the table ready for tomorrow's display!

"Delight in diversity; Unite in flavor”. This is a toast to the Combined Services Culinary Arts Team. Their participation in the Culinary Olympics is a testament to their skill, a salute to their passion, and a celebration of culinary artistry. Here's to bringing the gold home! "

The Management Team are at the opening ceremony. Awaiting the Parade of Nations

One day to go before we head to the IKA Culinary Olympics!

Final preparations are on the way. We are looking forward to competing against some of the best international teams.

Good luck to all competitors 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳

Any professional culinary arts team has personnel working behind the scenes to organise all the necessary logistics.

A big shout out to the CSCAT management and logistic team

WO Smith - CSCAT Manager
Sgt Hart - Head of Logistics
Sgt Jamieson - Logistics
Cpl Gill-Rowe - Logistics

With only 8 days to go!!!!! CSCAT are preparing for the IKA Culinary Olympics 2024!

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We wish our military chefs the best of luck.

Meet the team 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳

Captain - Sgt Dummelow
Vice Captain - Cpl Donnelly
Head of Sweets - Sgt Morrell
Petit Fours - WO Beavis
Finger Foods - Cpl Strickland

Assisting with the starting 5 will be

Cpl Wood
Cpl Norbert
Cpl Mackie
AS1 Gurung

21 days until the IKA Culinary Olympics. The team are raring to go and excited to compete.

We would like to thank our sponsors who help make this happen .essential @backbritishgame .dick_official

We are really looking forward to competing in a few weeks time!

Regional Culinary Richness Masterfully Displayed In Stuttgart, international Regional Teams present the delicacies of their local area to a wide audience. The exhibitions are “to view only” and show culinary craftsmanship at the highest level.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Mark Codgbrook, a huge supporter of the Team and one of its early chairs as part of his RAF Command Catering role.

We are deeply saddened to hear the devastating news that our dear friend Mark Codgbrook, a devoted member of the Salon Culinaire family sadly passed away last week. Mark was truly one of life’s gentlemen, so kind, so approachable, and willing to do whatever he could to help and support those around him. Always offering encouragement and support to the young chef competitors that would come into the Salon Culinaire office.

Mark had a successful career as a commissioned officer in the RAF, so naturally brought a strong sense of duty with him when supporting the Salon Culinaire family along with an exceptional sense of humour. He was very much looking forward to joining us again in March, alas he will be watching from above. He will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his family and all his friends at this sad time.
Rest in peace Mr Codgbrook aka ‘Mark medals’

We had an opportunity on Thursday evening to say thank you to some of our sponsors and award some of the Team their CSCAT Combined Services Culinary Arts Team medals as well as honour our outstanding achievers. Thank you to the chefs in the kitchen and the front of house staff for a fabulous meal and a memorable night.

We are pleased to have been talent scouting at Ex Joint Caterer over the last couple of days. Some great skills out there in the Army, Navy and RAF Catering teams and we look forward to inspiring a new generation of chefs. Well done to the RAF who became Inter Services Catering Champions this year 🏆

Good luck to our ex Vice Captain Grahame Wickham - go and smash it!!!

We are delighted to have Grahame Wickham back in the final of National Chef of the Year. After speaking to a few previous winners after last year’s final they encouraged him to try again. This year he’s got the gloves on and will be pushing hard to ensure his food is the best it can be to try and be on that podium.

Head over to the NCOTY website to read his article in full >> https://bit.ly/3PVA74Q

Congratulations to Nicole Watt for making the final of Young National Chef of the Year 👏

Time to focus and grab that title 🏆🥇👩‍🍳

And we’ll be there taking part. Counting down the months

At the IKA/Culinary Olympics, the chefs in the team categories work closely together.

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National Chef of the Year features the best chefs currently in the UK. One of our team members has prepared his dish for the next stage of the competition.

Textures of Cauliflower

Brick pastry collar, caramelised cauliflower purée with pickled stalk and cauli rice, pickled purple cauliflower, blanched and seasoned sprouting cauliflower, roast leaf and white chocolate mousse and parsley and lemon caviar.

Good luck to the 40 competitiors. We look forward to seeing your dishes.

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Craft Guild of Chefs reveals NCOTY semi-finalists after ‘exceptional’ standard of entries

Congratulations to FS Beavis on getting through to this years NCOTY 23 🎊🥳🎊

Fantastic to see so many TG19 personnel taking part in the RAF Catering Skills Competition today. Lots of talent on show and hopefully some will be inspired to try and get selected for the CSCAT Combined Services Culinary Arts Team.

Congratulations to all of the nominees for the Craft Guild of Chef Awards 2023.

Great to see members of CSCAT being nominated in two categories 👏

Another great week of representation for CSCAT as our Team Manager, Vice Captain and Head of Pastry were all judging at 2023 at the .

It was also great to see one of the junior members of the team pushing himself as he participated in the Mystery Box category.

Our Head of Pastry is judging at International Salon Culinaire. It is always important to champion culinary excellence.