It's his first time at Fieldays, but celebrity chef Mark Southon thinks he will be able to help the rural bachelors on both the cooking and courting fronts.
The UK-born and trained chef who has gained experience at some top international Michelin-starred restaurants will be using Waikato beef and cheese to whip up his hearty meatball and chilli sauce dish which he will demonstrate three times on Thursday, while also judging the rural bachelor's cooking efforts too.
Southon, 37, who is executive chef at O'Connell St Bistro in Auckland and the resident chef on 3's The Cafe, admitted he had high expectations of the breakfasts the bachelors would prepare as some of them had put down cooking as their hobbies. It is just one of a number of challenges set-out for the eight bachelors over the week.
"It will have to tick a few boxes before I taste it, but it's breakfast. What can go wrong?"
He was also considering giving extra marks for presentation and wooing, depending on what the men rustled up.
