Sykes House Farm: Inside the catering butchers training top chefs in Wetherby

Yorkshire Evening Post

A state-of-the-art culinary training hub has been turning professional chefs in Leeds into students again - offering hands-on butchery skills just outside Wetherby. For the last nine months, Sykes House Farm has been welcoming some of the region’s top names to ‘Method’, a specialist centre delivering lessons on the field-to-fork approach to cooking.

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00:00Hello, I'm Greg. I'm the development chef here at Method at Sykes House Farm.

00:04So this is my space, I look after it and we do all kinds of really, really

00:09interesting foodie events and loads of menu development for professional chefs

00:13and all kinds of varied fun things. We do a lot of menu development, we do a

00:17really good session where we cook a load of classic steak dishes but we use other

00:21proteins in the same way. So just to give chefs an idea of different menu

00:25options, try and save them a little bit of money. Various ways of giving them a

00:28bit more understanding of what they're cooking. My name is Rachel and I'm one of

00:32the business owners here at Sykes House Farm as sales director alongside my

00:35brother managing director. Well Sykes House Farm has been around since 1967 and

00:39we've been providing chefs in and around Yorkshire with the produce that we've

00:43raised and reared here. It was really important to me that we had a place

00:46where we could host our chefs and our business owners that we supplied and try

00:51and also educate them in meat husbandry but this really is a place built as a

00:56dream of mine and my brothers as a place to educate all foodies.

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