Bluewater Chef Competition Winner!

Tyrone learned his trade on the job, like quite a few yachts chefs, and was not formally trained as a cook. Yet he produced a consistently high standard of food and drove himself harder and harder as the heats progressed. His final meal was a triumph of instinctive flair for the use of ingredients.

All of the candidates were given 30 minutes to use all the contents of a bag of ingredients which they had not seen before. For the heats they produced one dish, for the semi final two dishes and for the final, a three course lunch in 45 minutes. 10 minutes into the final the two contestants were surprised when the referee, Helen Grensinger from ‘Gourmet Deliveries’, announced that a cake was being provided which they also had to decorate before the final whistle. Tyrone’s cake was still untouched less than 4 minutes before the end as he was still preparing his main course, yet somehow he managed to pull a creative design together in the final couple of minutes.

Tyrone started looking for work as a deckhand/engineer when he was 20, but thought, since his Mum had taught him to cook, he might get work as a yacht chef. He got his first chance on a 30 metre motor yacht in Barcelona and has not looked back. Staying in the 30-35 metre range in charter yachts in the Med and the Caribbean, he has just passed his MCA Ship’s Cook assessment at Secret de Cuisine and is now seeking to work on larger yachts.