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Largest bowl of pasta

The largest bowl of pasta weighed 6,253 kg (13,786 lb) and was made by Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant (USA), at the chain’s Anaheim restaurant, Garden Grove, California, USA, on 12 March 2010. To successfully set a new record the chefs had to fill a 4.57 m (15 ft) by 106.7 cm (42 in), 15,142 litre (4,000 gal) portable swimming pool. It took 5 people a total of 120 hours to call all the pasta for the attempt, which was then delivered in 11 separate Continue reading →

Largest bowl of goulash

The world record for the largest bowl of goulash is 7,200 litres (1,583.78 gal) in an event organised by Orizont TV during the Chestnut Festival in Baia Mare, Romania on 29 September 2007. Laura Hughes adjudicated attempt.

Largest bowling alley

The largest bowling alley, Inazawa Grand Bowl bowling centre (Japan), consists of 116 lanes, is 198.39 meters (650.88 ft) in length, and opened on 24 March 1972. The centre was completed on 17 March 1972; it has an area of approximately 8500 m² with a floor space of 17000 m².

Largest bowl of tabbouleh

The largest bowl of tabbouleh weighed 4,324 kg (9,532 lb 12 oz) and was made by Yaldy Association (Israel) at Alaayen Elementary School, in Shefa-Amr, Israel, on 13 November 2009. A team of 350 people worked for 10 hours 30 minutes to prepare the tabbouleh, which was placed in an iron bowl measuring 490 cm (16 ft) in diameter.

Largest bowl of soup

DENK Communicatie (Netherlands) prepared a 26,658 litres (5,863.94 UK gal; 7,042.3 US gal) vegetable soup in Poeldijk, Netherlands, on 16 May 2009. The ingredients include 17,500 litres (3,849.46 UK gal; 4,623.01 US gal) water, 7,440 kg (16, 402 lb)tomatoes, 1,250 kg (2,755 lb) cucumbers, 450 kg (992 lb) bell peppers, 3.5 kg (7 lb) parsley, 2,503 pieces of garlic, 125 kg (275 lb) tomato paste, 325 kg (716 lb) salt, 3.5 kg (7 lb) pepper, 48 litres (10.56 UK gal; 12.68 US gal)of olive oil and Continue reading →

Largest bowl of porridge

The largest bowl of porridge weighs 865 kg (1,905 lb 5 oz) and was achieved by OOO “Tula ProduKt” in association with “SuperSpa” (both Russia) in Tula, Russia, on 10 September 2011. The record attempt was dedicated to the 865th anniversary of the founding of the City of Tula. The porridge was cooked in a giant pot, 1.69 m (5 ft 6.48 in) in diameter and 0.9 m (2 ft 11.4 in) in depth. The porridge was cooked on an open fire oven using birch Continue reading →

Largest box of pasta

The largest box of pasta measures 1.54 m (5 ft 0.6 in) in height and 1.30 m (4 ft 3.8 in) in width and was created by Barilla Gida A.S. (Turkey), in Istanbul, Turkey, on 8 May 2012. Italy’s Barilla, one of the world’s biggest pasta maker, and Turkey’s Migros Ticaret supermarket chain teamed up to produce a half-tonne box of penne pasta, which sells for 999 Turkish lira ($560), for charity. The boxes will be sold at supermarkets in Istanbul, Edirne and the resort Continue reading →

Largest box of doughnuts

The largest box of doughnuts is a Krispy Kreme box weighing 135 kg (297 lb 10 oz) and was produced by The Kuwait Food Co. Americana (Kuwait), in Kuwait, Kuwait, on 30 May 2009. The box was filled with 2,700 pieces of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. The enlarged box was an exact replica, even down to the labels. The box was 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in) long, 4.10 m (13 ft 5 in) wide and 87 cm (2 ft 10 in) deep.