Pancake records - homemade food. The most massive pancake treat
Pancake week, which for the Orthodox precedes Lent, began in Russia on Monday, this year it will be held from February 24 to March 2. Shrovetide is originally a pagan holiday of the ancient Slavs of seeing off winter and meeting spring, cajoling the god of cattle breeding Veseles by eating round pancakes resembling a warm sun. We have selected the most Interesting Facts about pancakes and those who bake and eat them.
1. The height of the highest stack of pancakes was 82 cm. It was built in honor of the Maslenitsa celebration by the employees of the Food Network UK TV channel. The cooking process itself took 13 hours. 253 eggs, 5 kilograms of flour and 15 liters of milk were spent. The stack consisted of 725 pancakes. The record was recorded on March 9, 2013.
2. 1092 pancakes per hour- just such a record for the speedy flow of pancakes was set on August 13, 2013 by an American, the owner of the restaurant, Ros McCurdy. Before Ross, this unusual record was held by Steve Hamilton, who baked 956 pancakes in an hour.
3. In February 2012, another "pancake" record was set. Record set English students, after spending the most massive pancake flipping action. The event was hosted by students from the University of Sheffield and broadcaster Dan Walker. 930 people took part in it. At the same time, they turned over a pancake in a frying pan, the whole action took the participants of the record action about 30 seconds.
4 . Most pancakes made by a team within 8 hours- 76382 pieces. The record was set on May 9, 2009 in a hotel in Atlanta. Pancakes were prepared by 175 volunteers; in 8 hours they served about 20 thousand people.
5. Dominic Kuzakri threw the pancake above all in New York - by 9 meters 47 cm. The record was recorded on November 13, 2010. By the way, the previous record also belonged to Dominic, he improved his figure by 30 cm.
6. The world's largest pancake was baked on August 13, 1994 in the UK. The diameter of this giant pancake was 15 meters, 2.5 centimeters in height and 3 tons in weight. The pancake turned out to be very satisfying, and its energy value was as much as 2,000,000 kilocalories.
7. In Russia, they also tried to set a record and baked on Maslenitsa 2010 world's longest pancake, the length of which was 1 kilometer, weight 300 kilograms, and an area of 150 square meters. This pancake strip was cut into 5620 pieces, which were treated to everyone
8. Petersburg resident Andrey Smirnov ate whole 73 pancakes, whose weight exceeded 2 kilograms, and it took him only 60 minutes.
9. According to the research of Russian historians, a yeast pancake appeared somewhere at the turn of 1005-1006. Thus, In 2011 Russian pancake turned 1005 years old
10. The most ancient pancake holiday in Europe - pancake races in the UK. They have been held since 1445. According to legend, in 1445, one of the housewives of the town, carried away by baking pancakes, completely forgot about the Maslenitsa service in the church. Hearing the church bells, she ran out of the house in a panic, holding a frying pan with a pancake in one hand, and tying her cap with the other. From this incident, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe "pancake race" was born.
World records are set to promote a brand or for charity, and chefs are all the more ready to compete for leadership. To set a record, they are ready to spend eternity in the kitchen and use only the best ingredients in huge quantities.
most expensive burger
It would seem that a burger is a juicy meat patty, fresh vegetables and a soft bun, but the Fleur restaurant in Las Vegas came up with a more unusual combination of ingredients. French chef Habert Keller has created the most expensive burger in the world. “Fleur Burger” is Japanese beef, foie gras, cooked in black truffle sauce, on a truffle brioche bun. The cost of "Fleur Burger" is 5000 dollars V. The lucky ones who managed to try this burger say that it is very tasty. Is such an expensive pleasure really worth the money? In addition to the most expensive burger, french fries and a bottle of 1995 Chateau Petrus are served, and the wine alone costs $2,500.
longest pizza
The birthplace of pizza, Italy, again surprised the whole world and set a new Guinness record. In 2015, EXPO Milan brought together over 60 top pizza makers to make the longest pizza in the world. For the preparation of pizza, only products of Italian origin were used: 1.5 tons of mozzarella cheese, two tons of tomato sauce, 150 liters of olive oil. The weight of the test alone was 1.7 tons. The masters spent more than 18 hours preparing the pizza and used five ovens. The weight of the longest pizza in the world was 5 tons, and the length is 1600 meters. 35 thousand people got the opportunity to try pizza for free, and 300 meters of pizza were donated to charitable organizations.
Highest stack of pancakes
In 2016, the Guinness World Record for the tallest stack of pancakes was broken. The last record set by chefs from the Netherlands was broken by the chefs at the Newark Holiday Center in the UK. They baked a total of 213 pancakes and made a stack 101.8 centimeters high. 13 bags of flour, 360 eggs and 13 liters of milk were used to make pancakes. After long hours of hard work, a stack of pancakes lasted 5 seconds, which was long enough to set a Guinness World Record. Record-breaking pancakes with various fillings were distributed to all guests of the Recreation Center. The record was tried to be broken by cooks from Japan, Holland and the USA, but it remains with the British chefs.
The largest sushi mosaic
The record for the largest sushi mosaic was set in Norway. In honor of the centenary of the existence of the local football club, a sushi mosaic assembled on football stadium. The size of the mosaic was 56.5 square meters, and it took 800 kilograms of salmon, 400 kilograms of rice, about 200 liters of rice vinegar, 480 kilograms of cucumbers and 10 kilograms of green onions to cook. A real food work of art was created by Norwegian sushi masters. After the record was confirmed, the sushi were distributed to everyone who came to the football game.
The heaviest chocolate bar
In 2011, the British chocolate factory "Thorntons" broke perhaps the most delicious world record for the centenary of the company's founding. The chocolate factory has made the heaviest chocolate bar in the world. The weight of the heaviest bar was 5793 kilograms, and the size was 4 by 4 meters. It took a team of 50 people 10 hours to pour the chocolate into the mold, and then it took three days to harden it. The chocolate bar was offered for tasting to everyone at Chocolate Week, and then broken into pieces and sold in Thorntons stores.
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Pancakes are different: fresh and custard, buckwheat and wheat, and sometimes even record. In the village Stanichno-Luganskoye during the festivities on the Maslenitsa holiday, a new pancake record was set - the villagers built the highest pyramid of pancakes in the history of the country. 20 Luhansk cooks managed not only to bake a whole pile of pancakes in 15 hours, but also to stack them in a stack 3m 13cm high! Each newly made pancake was strung on a metal pin. This required active movement exercises 6 people. The maximum diameter of pancakes is 30 cm. Moreover, even the first pancake was not lumpy! The height of the grandiose structure could have been even greater, but the pancakes began to sag under their own weight. Therefore, we decided that the main thing is to stop in time.
It took 200 kg of flour, 350 eggs and almost 160 liters of milk to bake pancakes for the record pyramid. After the new record was declared successful, the guests of the holiday ate pancakes with great pleasure.
The venue for the celebration was not chosen by chance. Maslenitsa is a special holiday for Stanitsa Luhanska, the only Donskaya village in Ukraine. The original Cossacks put the farewell to winter on a par with the great Orthodox holidays. Luhansk residents dedicated their record to the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Luhansk region and the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Stanichno-Lugansk region. The leaders of the Stanichno-Lugansk region, the chairman of the Stanichno-Lugansk regional public organization "Young Regions", the director of the regional communal enterprise "Sport for All" Oleg Akimov, as well as the guests of honor who were present at the celebration - People's Deputy of Ukraine Alexander Efremov, head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Vladimir Pristyuk and Deputy Chairman of the Luhansk Regional Council Yury Khunov received commemorative certificates of the record.
Maslenitsa. The most interesting thing about pancakes
Damn has his records. For example, in size.
The biggest in the world the pancake weighed 3 tons, was 15 meters in diameter, and it had two million calories! This record was set in Rochdale in 1994.
The biggest pancake breakfast in the world is held annually in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Hundreds of volunteers take part in the event, and since 1999 over 71,233 servings have been served to more than 40,000 people. If all these pancakes were stacked, it would be over 3.5 km.
World pancake tossing record Ralph Lau from Leipzig put it in the air - in two minutes he threw a pancake 416 times! And Mike Kutsakra holds another pancake record - he ran a marathon, continuously tossing a pancake, how much do you think? Within 3 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds!
pancake racing arranged in England. This happens on Sinful Tuesday, when a huge number of people compete in the run, tossing all the same pancakes in the pans on the go. The first pancake race took place as early as 1445, and this is the oldest celebration involving pancakes.
The most expensive pancakes in the world
were made in the UK a few years ago. The cost of this dish was £144 ($198). It was heavily flavored with fragrant natural vanilla beans, a rather expensive spice, and topped with a thin layer of edible 24 carat gold leaf. The luxury of this pancake dish was given by strawberries grown on ecologically clean soil, as well as Don Perignon champagne jelly. The chef explained the essence of creating his masterpiece by the fact that even the most simple and banal food can be a real treasure if you create an organic ensemble.
Interesting pancakes have interesting traditions and customs. For example, there is a tradition in France, the essence of which is that if you make a wish while turning the pancake, while holding the handle of the pan with one hand and a coin with the other, then the wish will come true.
In Rus', there was a custom to give a pancake to a woman in labor.
According to legend, Maslenitsa was the daughter of Santa Claus and lived in the far North. The fragile girl Maslenitsa once met a man who saw her hiding behind huge snowdrifts. The man asked the girl to help people tired of the long winter - to cheer and warm them too. Maslenitsa agreed and, turning into a healthy, ruddy woman, dancing, laughing, and pancakes made the entire human race forget about the winter storm.
No less interesting and the origin of the name itself this amazing dish. The word "pancake" is a distorted "mlyn", derived from the verb "grind". “Melin”, or “mlyn”, meant a product made from ground, in other words, a flour product.
According to research of Russian historians, a yeast pancake appeared somewhere at the turn of 1005-1006. Thus, in 2014 Russian pancake is 1008 years old.
Strange as it may seem, the forerunner of the modern pancake was oatmeal jelly, which one day someone decided to heat on fire. This man, apparently, gaped and the thick jelly was fried, browned, and so it turned out to be a ready-made pancake.
From time immemorial in Rus', pancakes were baked not only from oatmeal, but also rye, wheat, buckwheat and buckwheat-wheat pancakes. In Russian home cooking, pancakes with spices, meat, onions, mushrooms, fish, eggs were very popular, and wild berries and cottage cheese were used as fillings.
Pancakes were served with butter, jam, sour cream, black and red caviar, lightly salted fish and chopped herring.
My favorites are those with poppy seeds, nuts and raisins, sprinkled with honey.
What kind of pancakes do you like? 
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