To celebrate their recent milestone of reaching 100,000 subscribers, YouTubers Exodus and Iggy Chaudhry (USA) set themselves a challenge to achieve a Guinness World Records title.
After seeing a video of the world’s largest pizza, the brothers became inspired to break a ‘big food’ record of their own, and since their home state of Wisconsin is well known for its cheese, they decided to make the world’s largest grilled cheese sandwich.
Exodus and Iggy enlisted the help of their parents and neighbours to create it, successfully breaking the record with a supersized sandwich measuring 1.89 metres (6.2 ft) wide, 3.32 metres (10.8 ft) long, and 7 cm (2.7 in) thick.
It was 35% larger than the previous record holder, which was made in the year 2000 by Cabot Creamery of Vermont.
Exodus and Iggy’s team experimented with multiple types of bread, ultimately choosing focaccia because they found that the giant slices retained their structure better than other types of bread.
The two big bread slices were baked on a giant griddle which was constructed specifically for this record attempt.
Cheese was then added in between the bread before being grilled again. The bottom of the sandwich was cooked with open flames, while blow torches were used to brown the top side.
Two of the major challenges they faced were ensuring that all the cheese was melted and that both sides of the sandwich were browned. If these criteria were not met, the team would not be awarded the record.
It took over an hour of torching for the top side to be completely crisped.
After the giant grilled cheese was cooked, it was cut up and weighed to be 189.9 kg (418.7 lb) – nearly 100 lb heavier than the previous record holder.
Some of the sandwich was served up to spectators in attendance at the event, but most of it was donated to local food pantries.
After breaking this record, Exodus and Iggy are delighted to now have an official Guinness World Records certificate in addition to their Silver YouTube Play Button plaque.
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