Ontario’s Finest Butcher Competition Announces Top 3 Finalists
Thirteen of Ontario’s top butchers showcased their extraordinary skills during Monday’s elimination round of the Ontario’s Finest Butcher Competition, vying for a spot in the grand finale
Scores were calculated, and the top three finalists were announced, moving forward to the final round.
Competitors had thirty minutes to transform a fresh pork bone-in leg, bone-in butt, and bone-in loin into merchandisable cuts of their choice. Judges evaluated each competitor on technique, degree of difficulty/efficiency, skill level in boning, trimming, and cutting, as well as the creative use of primal cuts and overall financial performance.
The top three finalists moving on to the grand finale on October 25, 2025, at Blue Mountain are (in no particular order):
- Sulaiman Hakimi of Halenda’s Fine Foods
- Rakesh Khadoo of Conestoga Meat Packers Ltd.
- Dylan Miedema of Townsend Butchers Inc.
The elimination round took place on September 8 at Handtmann Canada. The 700 lbs of pork, generously donated by Conestoga Meat Packers, Breslau, was packaged by Handtmann Canada and delivered to Second Harvest Food Rescue.
Watch the grand finale live on Meat & Poultry Ontario’s Facebook page at 11:20 AM on October 25: https://www.facebook.com/MeatPoultryON.
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