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Sixty Chefs Create the World's Largest Biryani

YumSugar — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:01:15 -0800

I'm not sure why people feel the need to break Guinness World Records, but they do. And this time it was sixty Indian chefs in New Delhi. This past Saturday they cooked a 13 ton (28,600 pounds) biryani dish. That's right 13 TONS. It took three cranes and a huge steel vat mounted over a three-foot high furnace, but they managed to do it. The dish took 6600 pounds of rice, 187 pounds of chili peppers, 317 gallons of oil, 8045 pounds of vegetables and a "pinch" of salt weighing nearly 190 pounds.

A records manager from the Guinness Book was on hand to witness the cooking. Kaoru Ishikawa said:

I'm here to certify them for preparing the world's largest biryani weighing around 13,000 kilograms.

The weirdest thing, is that there is no current listing for largest biryani, so perhaps 13 tons might have been a bit of an overkill? Although the dish was then divided and sent to city orphanages, so at least in this case the food wasn't going to waste.

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India Chain Claims to Be Home to Longest Ever Dosa

YumSugar — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:00:07 -0700

To be filed right next to New Delhi's record for the world's largest biryani: Sankalp, a restaurant chain based in the city of Ahmedabad, India, claims to have made the world's longest dosa.

The mammoth dosa - a crepelike South Indian specialty made from rice and black lentils - was created last Wednesday and measured in at 32 feet and 5 inches long, taking less than 40 minutes to put together. To make the behemoth, a team of 16 chefs practiced for 10 days, working to achieve the correct length by maintaining a steady temperature across the entire dosa, while handling a tawa, or hot plate, that was 35 feet long. The finished product was named "Quick Gun Murungun," the title of an upcoming movie that discusses the merits of being vegetarian.

As a lover of all things South Indian, especially dosas, this leaves me with only two questions: Was the dosa filled? And do they still need someone to eat it? What do you think of the record? Have you ever tried a dosa?

Do You Know What's Cooking This Week?

YumSugar — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:10:31 -0800

This week we covered everything from record-breaking biryanis to home-roasted coffee. Have you been paying attention? If so, then take our weekly quiz! All of the answers can be found in this past week's posts, so let's find out how well you fare! Ready to start?

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Kanye West's $3900 Meal

YumSugar — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:28:19 -0800

Have you ever visited a city, fallen in love with a meal and wished you could have it again? For most of us, we'd have to wait until we had the opportunity to visit again, but there are a select few that can have meals flown in from afar. One of these lucky folks is Kanye West. A feast consisting of onion bhajees, chapati breads, biryanis, pappadums, and a specially prepared fish dish is on its way to New York City from Cardiff, Wales. Ordered by a music promotion company for West and seven guests, the meal will be escorted by a chef during the flight and served on Wednesday. The cost for the meal: about $3900 - and to put that into perspective, a regular dish at the place would cost under $20.

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