Have you ever wondered where to buy the best bacon in Far North Queensland? Or the best gourmet sausages and burger patties?
You’re in luck because the Australian Meat Industry Council has just announced its Tropical North Queensland winners for the 2021 Sausage King, Best Butchers Burger and Smallgoods competition.
Edge Hill Butchery dominated (they are clearly the burger kings), while Molone’s in Port Douglas and Russo’s Quality Meats in Mareeba also had plenty of accolades.
Wins were also notched up by Paul Marsh butcheries in Stratford and Cross Custom Meats in Atherton.
Bryant’s Family Butchery in Woree, Clifton Beach Butchery and Babinda Meat Mart made it onto the honours list, too.
Winners are now vying for prizes at the state awards to be held October 9 in Brisbane.
Check out the full list below.
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Beef sausages
Gold | Cross Custom Meats for their traditional beef snags
GO THERE: 6A Robert St, Atherton
Silver | Malone’s Butchery at Port Douglas for their Angus beef sausages
Bronze | Russo’s quality meats for their Bingil Bay grass fed beef sausages
Pork sausages
Gold | Edge Hill Butchery for their traditional pork snags
GO THERE: 136 Collins Ave, Edge Hill
Silver | Clifton Beach Butchery for their Irish pork sausages
Bronze | Bryant's Family Butchery for their traditional pork sausages
Poultry sausages
Gold | Edge Hill Butchery for their free range chicken & pistachio flavour
Silver | Malone’s Butchery for their chicken, bacon, cheese & jalapeno snags
Bronze | Clifton Beach Butchery for their smokey honey & chorizo chicken sausages
Lamb sausages
Gold | Malone’s Butchery for their Moroccan lamb, preserve lemon & date snags
GO THERE: 11-17 Macrossan St, Port Village Shopping Centre
Silver | Bryant's Family Butchery for their classic lamb sausages
Bronze | Russo's Quality Meats for their honey roasted lamb, rosemary & garlic offering
Continental sausages
Gold | Russo's Quality Meats for their Italian chicken, sundried tomato & fetta snags
GO THERE: Shop 15/241 Byrnes St, Mareeba
Silver | Edge Hill Butchery for their pork, sambuca & fennel sausages
Bronze | Edge Hill Butchery for their smoked honey chorizo
Gourmet sausages
Gold | Edge Hill Butchery for their canadian maple & smokey bacon snags
Silver | Edge Hill Butchery for their Wagyu, caramelised onion & cracked pepper flavour
Bronze | Clifton Beach Butchery for their smokey bacon & maple pork sausages
Beef burger
Gold | Malone’s Butchery for their smokey beef brisket
Silver | Edge Hill Butchery for their Wagyu burger
Bronze | Edge Hill Butchery for their dry aged burger
Gourmet burger
Gold | Edge Hill Butchery for their Wagyu beef & bourbon burger (this took out the state award last year)
Silver | Edge Hill Butchery for their lamb, rosemary, garlic & halloumi burger
Bronze | Edge Hill Butchery for their pork, truffle & provolone burger
"It was a clean sweep," Edge Hill butcher Rod Leaver told Tropic Now.
"Over the past three years we've being doing a lot with our burgers and our sausages.
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"We pride ourselves on a lot of gourmet products and these ones the customers like and we’ve had great feedback.
"We always use good produce and I'm pretty fussy about that.
"So you can be confident, but you never really know – it comes back to the day and judges."
Bacon
Gold | Paul Marsh Butcheries for their rindless bacon
GO THERE: 1 Kamerunga Rd, Stratford
Silver | Cross Custom Meats Real Bacon
Bronze | Babinda Meat Mart Traditional Smoked Bacon
Leg ham on the bone
Gold | Babinda Meat Mart's traditional smoked ham
GO THERE: 66 Munro St, Babinda
Silver | Cross Custom Meats for their traditional bone in ham
Boneless leg ham
Gold | Cross Custom Meats
Silver | Paul Marsh Butcheries
Pre-cooked scalded sausage
Gold | Paul Marsh Butcheries' Kransky
Kabana
Gold | Cross Custom Meats for their Firecracker
