Who are Cully & Sully?
Cully Loves His food. Growing up in Ballymaloe he ate a lot of good food. He knows that for good food you need good ingredients.
Sully loves business. He Studied food business. He worked in the food Business. Inspired by "The Granary Food Store", his mum's food business, his great dream is to make "good, honest & tasty meals" His business.
Cully & Sully make completely natural and tremendously tasty soups, hotpots, pies and puddings!
What's Cheffactor?
Cully & Sully’s Cheffactor is about giving someone a once in a life time opportunity to pursue a culinary career or get involved in making their own good food. It’s for anyone who would like to win the 12 week cookery course in Ballymaloe worth €12,000 with accommodation, knives, uniform plus 2 weeks with ourselves to learn about the food business. The best part is that Cheffactor is open to everyone, whether you're a whizz in the kitchen or not. We plan on making you a rockstar in the kitchen, you do not have to be one to begin with!
Aside from our amazing prizes, We also hope to raise some awareness for Cork Simon throughout the competition as they are approaching their 40th anniversary and now as much as ever, they are in need of support.
How do I enter?
It's really easy. Just upload a photo to cheffactor.ie and tell us why you should win. We ask you to tell us a little about your dish so that we get to hear more from you and so that we know what we're looking at! You can upload ANY dish you want, big or small, starter or main, sandwich, cake or steak! Have fun! Just make sure we can see you, your dish and the words "Cully & Sully" in the photo!
How do I win? How does it work?
There will be three finalists. The public will vote in two finalists and we, Cully & Sully, will choose one other.
Voting starts on the 25th of October, but you can still enter after this date. Why? Because we are picking an entry to join the top two finalists with the most votes at the final no matter how many votes they have! Hurray!
Our two finalists with the most votes plus our wildcard finalist will be presenting their dishes, but most importantly themselves, to us and our special guest Judges Rachel & Darina Allen at the live final in ballymaloe.
Hey, I'm a member of the public! How do I vote?
If you want to support someone who has entered Cully&Sully’s Cheffactor, make sure to ‘Like’ their entry to vote for them! Voting opens on the the 25th of October.
We will be giving away a number of Cully&Sully’s Coveted hampers to voters at the final so watch this space!
So When is The Cheffactor Final?
Our three finalists will be revealed on the 25th of November when voting ends, one week ahead of the final. The top 2 entrants with the most votes will go through to the final, while ONE lucky entrant will be handpicked by Cully & Sully, so enter at the last minute and you could still go through! Entries will no longer be accepted after November 22nd.
For this reason, we will no longer be accepting entries after the 22nd of November. Afterall, we must have time to look through the entries and deliberate over who should join us at the Cheffactor Final on December 2nd.
Where can I watch the Chef factor final?
We'll keep you posted.
I have the music from your radio ad stuck in my head, where did that music come from?
The music came from a really cool Irish Rock Band called 'I caught fire'.
