BUDDING chefs at Helsby High School were praised for their ‘exceptional’ culinary skills in the national Rotary Young Chef competition.
Competing against students from Whalley Range High School in Manchester, students from various year groups had to make and present a two-course menu in just 90 minutes.
Year 8 members of the school’s Cook Club made cakes including brownies, ginger shortbread, lemon drizzle cake, scones and flapjacks to serve to teachers and parents who had come to watch.
Adam Senior, sous chef at Frodsham’s Old Hall Hotel, judged the event, describing the standard of food as ‘exceptionally high’.
The Helsby school has now qualified for the quarter finals of the competition and will have to cook a three-course menu against seven other schools.
