The 2022 PLW (Confectionery Trade Competition) for the confectionery trade was held at the Koblenz Chamber of Crafts. Leonard Will (2nd from left) was named Best Confectioner. Second and third place went to Sophie Charlotte Grimmig (3rd from left) and Savannah Schmitt (2nd from right). Nadja Poth was named National Champion in the Specialized Food Retailers (Confectioner). DKB President Gerhard Schenk (left) and juror Johannes Becker (right) congratulated them on their successful participation, as did Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Economic Affairs Daniela Schmitt. (Photo: © Klaus Herzmann)
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Leonard Will from North Rhine-Westphalia is the 2022 national confectioners' champion. In the battle for second place, Sophie Charlotte Grimmig from Baden-Württemberg and Savannah Schmitt from Rhineland-Palatinate were separated by only a few tenths of a point.
Germany's best young pastry chefs engaged in a sweet competition in Koblenz: Nine participants competed against each other in the final of the national skills competition at the Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts ' Center for Nutrition and Health. According to the German Confectioners' Association, they had ten hours to create pralines, small cakes, sweet fours, a decorative piece, and hand-modeled figures, all according to precise specifications. The national competition for sales assistants in the food industry (pastry chefs) was also held in Koblenz. A jury evaluated, among other things, their skills in decorating a shop window and creating gift arrangements.
The first national winner of the national pastry competition was Leonard Will from North Rhine-Westphalia (training establishment: Konditorei & Café Spetsmann in Iserlohn). His competition entry – a sweet window display on the theme of James Bond – achieved 98,5 points. Second place went to Sophie Charlotte Grimmig from Baden-Württemberg (96,67 points), training at Confiserie Böckeler in Karlsruhe, who focused her work on her hometown of Heidelberg. Local favorite Savannah Schmitt from Rhineland-Palatinate (training establishment: Bäckerei & Konditorei Dhein , Argenthal) secured third place in the 2022 national competition with 96,25 points . She deliciously captured the tension between tradition and modernity in the pastry craft.
Only one participant travelled to the national skills competition for sales assistants in the food trade, specializing in confectionery . The 2022 competition winner was Nadja Poth from Hesse (training company: Café Klingelhöfer , Marburg), who based her presentation table on the theme "Back to Nature".
The German Skilled Trades Competition (PLW) takes place annually in over 130 trades and in up to four successive stages (guild, chamber, state, and federal levels), according to the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts (ZDH). The national winners will be honored by the ZDH in a ceremony in Augsburg on December 9, 2022. The patron of the PLW is the incumbent Federal President.
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"This is incredible!" exclaimed Rhineland-Palatinate's Minister of Economic Affairs, Daniela Schmitt (FDP), during her tour of ten shop windows. She emphasized that craft policy was her personal passion . She congratulated the participants with a radiant smile: "You are all winners, because you were so courageous in facing the stress and comparison. What you have achieved is absolutely impressive!" Schmitt stressed the need to strengthen the culinary arts and support them through the current crisis : "In difficult times, we need positive moments, and the culinary arts contribute to that."
Joachim Schäfer, head of confectionery training at the Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts, also praised the event: "This national competition is strenuous and demanding, but it was worth it and is important advertising for our craft!" He, like the president of the German Confectioners' Association (DKB), Gerhard Schenk, appealed to the competition participants to act as multipliers in order to later inspire young journeymen to participate in the competition.
Ralf Hellrich, Managing Director of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts, congratulated the participants on their outstanding results and addressed DKB: "We are delighted that you are using our facilities for this competition. We are very proud of our confectionery training program." He added with a wink to the participants: "And by the way, we also offer excellent master craftsman training here!"
Source: German Confectioners' Association
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