A battle royal at Scotland’s Butcher Wars The country’s butchers went to war at the weekend as they battled it out in one of the industry’s most fiercely contested competitions. Three Scottish champions emerged victorious from the tense 45-minute battle to lift the top titles in the UK’s theatrical showdown – Butcher Wars. Run by […]
A survey of more than 1,300 farming and food businesses across the UK found that access to local abattoir services was essential for many of them to operate, with 88% stating their abattoir was either important or essential to the success of their business, while 64% felt the availability, or lack of availability, of a […]
Monday 26th June 2023 Ironmongers Hall, London National Craft Butchers invite you to our AGM & Members Day celebrating all that is special about our industry. AGM The day will begin at 10.45am with NCB’s AGM in which our current President, Executive Council and Head Office team will inform members of all that we have […]
AHDB campaign encourages consumers to ‘Love BBQ’ this summer AHDB’s ‘Love BBQ’ campaign is back this summer with a month-long celebration of the taste and ease of barbecued British meat. From 1 May to 4 June, the campaign will encourage consumers to fire up their grills and try delicious and easy barbecue pork, beef, and […]
Students get valuable insight at Welsh Lamb butchery demonstration Aspiring chefs from a leading further education college were given an insight into PGI Welsh Lamb as part of a demonstration of butchery skill and technique. Following the demo, Welsh Lamb took centre stage in a six course Great British Menu meal, cooked by the students […]
NCB Launches New Health & Safety Management System! Following on from their Food Safety management system launch in January this year NCB now release their Health & Safety Management System. The HSMS is a framework that helps those responsible, manage health and safety in the workplace methodically. Putting a system in place in can make […]
Farm Shop & Deli Retailer Awards Reveal their Retailer of the Year 2023! On Tuesday 25th April specialist retailers, suppliers and the Awards judges came together in person at Farm Shop & Deli Show to celebrate the very best of the sector as the ‘Best in Region’, Newcomer of the Year and overall ‘Retailer of […]
Food testing – how and what to test As food business owners and managers, you may be asked to carry out food or shelf-life testing for your products, with little guidance from the person who is asking for this. It is a technically complex subject and it is not always easy to know where to […]
Meat dishes still a firm favourite with diners Meat dishes still retain the lion’s share in the out of home market despite a year-on-year increase in meat free meals. According to research from AHDB, dishes containing meat, fish and poultry (MFP) account for the majority of spend in the out of home market, with ‘meat […]
Craft Butcher Dry Ageing Away Day Last year, Craft Butcher were invited to attend a dry-ageing event arranged by Williams Refrigeration at Perrys of Eccleshall in Staffordshire. As well as tasting some amazing dry aged beef we also put shop owner, Stephen Hill, through his paces by bombarding him with questions! Here are our learnings […]
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Registered in England (Company No. 00067142) 1 Belgrove, TN1 1YW – VAT 445792223