It only takes three ingredients to make a winning bowl, says Toby Wilson, Australia’s current top-ranked porridge maker – and not one of them is dairy
Toby Wilson has not one spurtle, but five. His collection of the traditional Scottish porridge-making implements includes one sourced from a museum gift shop, another made by a friend’s mother, while the rest – his most prized – are from his time as a finalist in the 2022 world porridge-making championships.
“As a contestant I got a special one that’s branded with fire,” says Wilson, who was the only Australian to make the top six in the competition that year. “In a world of whatever the fuck is going on, it’s pretty nice to think of being in a tiny village in Scotland on a river, cooking some old-fashioned oats.”
