Want to be a Chef?

 C ongratulations to our Chef Talent Scouts! 

Congratulations to our selected #FutureChefs who have managed to make it to our Semi-Final round. You will now have to participate in a fiery cook-off, on 3 August, with your fellow contestants to win one of our internationally-recognised Professional Cookery Programmes for 2020. 

All you need to do is come through to your local campus and make the same winning dish that you entered on Instagram.

Semi-finalist Requirements:

All semi-finalists are requested to come through to your respective campus: 

Date: 3 August 2019

Time: 9:00 for 9:30am

Venue: Your local Capsicum campus – listed above.

*You will need to make the dish that you entered the competition with. 

Rules of the Cook-off:

You will be preparing the dish that you entered on Instagram, using your own ingredients.

You will only need to make ONE dish. 

You will have 5 hours to cook/bake your dish.

Your dish will be judged by our Capsicum Lecturers.

Once your dish is complete (within 5 hours) you can present for judging, Capsicum's elected judging panel will judge the dish across a set of criteria relating to presentation, texture and taste.

A winner will be selected PER campus

The prize is a year-long Professional Cooking Programme for 2020

The winner of every campus will compete for our final round to stand a chance to win a 3-year QCTO Chef Programme for 2020.

Basic preparation equipment will be available at the campus, any specialised equipment must be brought in by the contestant. 

Basic Station and Equipment available includes:

1 x Stove

1 x Standard Oven

Whisk, solid basting spoon, slotted basting spoon, tongs, wooden spoon, kidney pan, grater, pots, pans, chopping boards and mixing bowls.

No ingredients will be provided for the contestants.

All ingredients need to be brought in by the contestant.

No elements may be premixed or prepared.

All preparation must take place on campus within the time frame allocated.

Standard plates will be provided.

Any special plating requirements must be provided for by the contestant.

A chef knife and pairing knife will be provided for each contestant.

If you win your local campus cook-off you will be sponsored to travel to Gauteng for the final cook-off between the 6 regional finalists.

In the final cook-off the finalists will be challenged by working with ingredients from a mystery basket.

The final cook-off will take place on Saturday 31 August.

 

Prizes: 

6 Regional winners/semi-finalists: A bursary of R90 000 towards your study for a Professional Cookery programme. (Boksburg, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria).

1 National winner: A bursary of R200 000 towards your study for the QCTO Chef programme (three years).

The bursary includes a full chef uniform, ingredients and knife set.

 

Term's and Condition's:

The competition is open for South African citizens only.

The recipient of the bursary must be 18 years of age or older in the year of study at Capsicum Culinary Studio (2020).

The recipient of the bursary must be able to study in 2020.

The bursary will not be carried over to the following year or deferred in anyway.

The regional winner who wins the national competition will not receive the bursary for Professional Cookery but will win the 3-year QCTO Chef Programme.

The bursary is for study only and excludes transport and accommodation.

This competition is NOT applicable to current culinary students.

This competition is NOT applicable to Capsicum Culinary Studio students.

Winners will be announced on our website and social media platforms.

For full T's & C's please contact your local branch principal.