Oat of this world: cooks descend on Scotland for ultimate porridge making contest

Technical mishaps and plenty of whisky as competitors from as far afield as US and Australia vie for Golden Spurtle There are many varieties of spurtle. The traditional Scottish cooking implement, designed for stirring porridge without forming lumps, comes in a range of sizes, can be formed from cherry wood, beech, or maple, and might be topped with a decorative finial or smoothed out at its end for a more modern finish. But on Saturday in Carrbridge, in the Scottish Highlands, only one spurtle