Meet SA's best braaier

AGRELA: CAR SALESMAN HAS WINNING RECIPE FOR HIS SPECIAL WORS

- Citizen reporter

Roberto-Rui Agrela, a 33-year-old car salesman from Paarl, has claimed the top spot at the 33rd Shoprite and Checkers Championship Boerewors finale, held at Cabo Beach Club in Cape Town on Saturday. The air was thick with smoke and spices as experts from the South African Chefs Association painstakingly evaluated every detail of the finalists' freshly made and braaied boerewors.

Just as anticipation neared breaking point, Agrela emerged, tongs in hand, as the country's No 1 boerewors maker - outdoing more than 2 350 hopefuls who entered the competition this year.

"En daar's net een wors, dis die boerewors..." is the catchy Afrikaans song, Boereworsgordyn, by Robbie Wessels and Appel that sparked the idea for Agrela to make his own boerewors for the first time.