Get a load of this grub! From a 1.31 mile-long pizza to a giant gingerbread VILLAGE, 30 of the most mouth-watering Guinness World Record attempts
- Chefs vie to set a new record each year – be it for the longest, largest or heaviest food item
- Some of the most impressive attempts of all time include a 1.32-mile-long pizza, a bubbling saucepan filled with 26,000 liters of broth and a 576-kilo wheel of cheese
Every year, chefs and cooking aficionados across the globe compete for a new Guinness World Record – be it the largest, longest, or heaviest food item of all time.
From an incredible 1.32-mile-long pizza made in California to an enormous 576 kilogram wheel of cheese in the Netherlands, here DailyMail.com looks back at some of the most spectacular attempts to win a spot in the coveted book of records.
But be warned: look away now if you’re hungry!
Men from the Alkmaar Cheese weighing house in the Netherlands celebrate their record-setting wheel of Beemster cheese on April 27, 2002. The dairy product measured in at a whopping 567 kilograms
Volunteers feed the final section of the world’s longest pizza into a mobile oven in Fontana, California. The 1.32-mile-long pizza dwarfed the previous record held by Italy at 600 feet
Mexican chefs assemble more than 80,000 traditional marinated pork tacos in Guadalajara on February 15, 2015. The 2.5-kilometer-long taco line set a new Guinness record
Workers scramble to set the Guinness World record for the longest hot dog line in Guadalajara, Mexico, on August 12, 2018. They succeeded with a row measuring 1,417 meters long
Salvadoran cooks poses for a photo with the biggest pupusa in the world during the 18th Festival of the Pupusa in 2021. National Pupusa Day has been celebrated since 2005 in honor of the iconic local dish, a thick cake made with cornmeal or rice flour
Lebanese chefs set a new world record for biggest tabbouleh in Beirut on October 25, 2009. The achievement came just a day after Lebanon broke another Guinness record with a two-ton serving of hummus
Roberto Estrada and his team prepare a massive enchilada on October 8, 2000. Guinness officiates say the top spot belongs to Mexico, but the New Mexico restaurateur – who held the record for a decade – insists his three-layered, flat enchilada is the largest flat enchilada, while the one made in Mexico is the largest rolled enchilada
Bakers prepare 6.5-kilometer-long cake in a attempt aim to break the Guinness World Record in Kerala, India on January 15, 2020. Hungry onlookers descended upon the dessert as soon as the record was confirmed – and it was gone in 10 minutes
A little boy gleefully tastes a giant sandwich that is nearly his height in Mexico City on April 24, 2004. The sandwich, made of ham, cheese and lettuce, weighed 3,178 kilograms and set a world record
Chefs whip up pancakes under a tent in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 26, 2018. They cooked a total 12,874 pancakes within eight hours and shattered the last record
The world’s longest strand of noodles was completed on February 3, 2004 in Germany. The strand took 250 eggs, 50 kilograms of flour and 25 liters of water to make
After 15 attempts, a 10-chef team in China made the world’s longest rice noodle, which they laid out in front of a store on November 2, 2008 in Zhengzhou
Over 100 Chinese cooks slice noodles into during the opening ceremony of Shanxi wheaten food culture festival on August 26, 2016. In addition to attracting hundreds of spectators, the event set a record for the most people slicing noodles together
Members of the California Sushi Academy celebrate their victory after preparing the worlds largest California Roll at the Hollywood Guinness World of Records Museum on February 24, 2000. Over 50 students and chefs created a 108-foot piece of sushi, which was wrapped in seaweed and composed of rice, crab, avocado and cucumber
Turkish chefs smashed the Guinness record for biggest baklawa in the world on March 22, 2018. The baklawa consisted of 11,800 slices and weighed an eye-watering 515 kilograms
Chinese cooks work to make the world’s largest serving of fried rice in a record-breaking attempt on October 22, 2015. The achievement was revoked four days later, after the tourism bureau that organized the event admitted to wasting some 150 kilograms of the total of 4,192 kilograms of rice, drawing criticism online
Members of the Emberá tribe prepare a giant patacon – fried, flattened pieces of green plantains – in Panama, on October 16, 2019. They managed to cook the largest in the world and enter the Guinness World Records
A total of 418 people banded together in Beijing in an attempt to set the record for most people having breakfast in bed at the same time. However, rules changed and a new record was achieved five years later, in 2020. While just 184 people participated, Guinness Records required that all of them were in a real bed, had at least two breakfast food items and a beverage, and ate continuously for at least one minute
Philadelphia set the record for the largest cheesecake, measuring 2.5 meters in diameter, 55 centimeters high and weighs 2 tons. The gigantic dessert was made using more than 800 kilograms of cream cheese and was displayed at a Mexican university on January 25, 2009
A restaurant owner and his employees cooked the world’s largest kebab on October 24, 2005 in Greece. The city’s poor were among the first to have a taste
Argentina secured the Guinness World Record for most pizzas baked in twelve hours after baking 11,287 of them on November 11, 2018. This usurped Italy’s previous record of 10,065
Chef Jon Lovitch broke records with a huge gingerbread village on December 17, 2013 in New York City. It was open to the public at the New York Hall of Science after Lovitch spent 1,500 hours preparing it. Like the city that inspired it, the village featured five gingerbread train cars, an underground lolly subway station and road signs made of sugar
Chefs in the western Netherlands prepared the biggest saucepan with tomato-vegetable soup ever on May 16, 2009. With 26,000 liters of broth, the group snagged a record from the Guinness Book
A judge examines a large display of cheese varieties at the World Dairy Summit in China on April 23, 2016. The record was set that September by in France, where 2,140 cheeses of 730 different varieties were displayed in a 40-meter-long refrigerated tent
Ranchers in southern Mexico managed to set a new world record with an enormous string cheese ball, weighing 558 kilograms, on August 31, 2023. It used about 6,000 liters of milk
A woman examines a fish as members of Lebanon’s Batroun Traders Association break a Guinness World Record for the largest seafood display on September 4, 2016. According to event organizers, a total of 2,613 kilograms were displayed
General Manager of Ranchero King Buffet, Elias Duran, frosts one of nearly 1,400 Rosca de Deyes in a Houston park. The bread, also known as Three Kings Cake, is customarily eaten 12 days after Christmas. Weighing a total 1000 pounds, the pastries set a record for the world’s largest Rosca de Reyes on January 9, 2010
Employees of Japan’s Nissin Foods stacked 69 layers of cup noodle packages to celebrates the 44th anniversary of the establishment of the Cup Noodle. Guinness World Records recognized the ‘largest packaged product pyramid’ on September 18, 2015
Muslim Aid staff and volunteers attempt to cook the world’s largest samosa on August 22, 2017. The record-breaking pastry was served to the neighborhood’s homeless as part of the traditional good deeds associated with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha
Bakers try to prepare the world’s largest coffee bread in Bogota on October 21, 2023. The bread, with a total length of 335 meters, has not been certified as a record-breaker
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