Fresh Choice \u014cmokoroa picked up three medals, including silver awards for its Pure Beef and Traditional Boerewors sausages, while Edmund Rd Four Square in Rotorua and New World Te Puke also featured among the national medallists.<\/p>\n
The awards were announced at a ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday night after judges assessed a record-breaking 869 entries from 126 sausage makers across New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Auckland\u2019s Mapari Meats was crowned Supreme Winner with its Birria Taco sausage, which judges praised for its Mexican-inspired flavours and broad appeal.<\/p>\n
Judge Brian Everton said the standard of entries continued to rise each year.<\/p>\n
Kiwi Fresh Meats’ KFM chilli cheese griller.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see the care and pride producers are putting into their sausages, and that really comes through in the texture and all the technical aspects of making a great sausage.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this final stage of judging, it ultimately comes down to the combination of flavours and innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The results provide a nationwide guide to some of New Zealand\u2019s best sausages as barbecue season approaches.<\/p>\n
Category Champions<\/p>\n
Blackforest Gourmet Butchery (Tauranga) \u2013 Weisswurst<\/p>\n
Kiwi Fresh Meats (Tauranga) \u2013 KFM Chilli Cheese Griller<\/p>\n
Gold Medals<\/p>\n
Kiwi Fresh Meats (Tauranga) \u2013 KFM Chilli Mutton Dhania Mint<\/p>\n
Mount Butchery (Mount Maunganui) \u2013 Pure Pork<\/p>\n
Pak\u2019nSave Cameron Rd (Tauranga) \u2013 Cheeseburger<\/p>\n
Thomson\u2019s Butchery (P\u0101p\u0101moa) \u2013 San Choy Bao<\/p>\n
Silver Medals<\/p>\n
Fresh Choice \u014cmokoroa \u2013 Pure Beef<\/p>\n
Fresh Choice \u014cmokoroa \u2013 Traditional Boerewors<\/p>\n
Kiwi Fresh Meats (Tauranga) \u2013 KFM Marmite and Cheese<\/p>\n
Thomson\u2019s Butchery (P\u0101p\u0101moa) \u2013 Korean Bulgogi<\/p>\n
Bronze Medals<\/p>\n
Blackforest Gourmet Butchery (Tauranga) \u2013 Smoked Bratwurst<\/p>\n
Edmund Rd Four Square (Rotorua) \u2013 Pure Beef<\/p>\n
Fresh Choice \u014cmokoroa \u2013 Pure Pork<\/p>\n
New World Te Puke \u2013 Premium Beef<\/p>\n
Meat at The Beach (Whangamat\u0101) \u2013 Real Beef<\/p>\n
Medal tally<\/p>\n
Tauranga\/Mount Maunganui: 8 medals and two category champions<\/p>\n
\u014cmokoroa: 3 medals<\/p>\n
P\u0101p\u0101moa: 2 medals<\/p>\n
Rotorua: 1 medal<\/p>\n
Te Puke: 1 medal<\/p>\n
Whangamat\u0101: 1 medal <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh Choice \u014cmokoroa picked up three medals, including silver awards for its Pure Beef and Traditional Boerewors sausages,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1975,160177,1561,4192,257757,4596,13116,69454,78074,16773,305,49539,3556,117,111,139,69,1118,1562,1974,69452,213,1361,1961,6027,1530,80],"class_list":["post-630847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-at","tag-attracted","tag-bay","tag-butchers","tag-cleaned","tag-competition","tag-contest","tag-dunninghams","tag-entries","tag-great","tag-have","tag-medals","tag-national","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-plenty","tag-record","tag-sausage","tag-sports","tag-that","tag-this","tag-win","tag-years","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}