Great Sausage Roll Off competition postponed until 2023

The Great Sausage Roll Off competition has been postponed for a further 12 months, its organisers have announced.

Angus McKean and Claire Morgan, licensees of the Red Lion in Barnes who have run the contest since 2013, said the decision was due to the pressure the hospitality sector has faced in recent months.

Angus said: "Competing in the Roll Off is a major challenge for competitors – it takes time to devise, perfect and hone your sausage roll and everyone has been under so much pressure over the Christmas period with working from home guidance, cancellations and staff self-isolating that we decided not to add more pressure. Obviously we couldn't hold it last year either, so this was a tough call."

Claire added that the Roll Off would be back, "bigger and better" in 2023 and urged chefs to "get practising now".

"Having had three years to come up with a winning entry, we're expecting the competition to be very fierce when it returns and we will be expecting great things in the world of sausage rolls," she said.

The competition sees chefs from across the country compete to create the ultimate sausage roll.

It was last held in 2020 and despite initial plans for the event to return in 2021, it did not go ahead.

The 2020 event was won by Alan Chilton of the Bower Inn in Somerset (pictured) and raised £3,500 for industry charity Hospitality Action.

Judges included chefs Russell Bateman, Paul Foster, Paul Cunningham and Heart FM DJ Lucy Horobin.