The Biggest Pizza

The Biggest Pizza

More than once, many countries have made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for making the largest pizza. But Italy, the country that is the historical home of this dish, has repeatedly tried to get the championship and beat the past records. And in 2012 they did it! So, the most gigantic pizza was made in the Apennine peninsula in Pesaro and was named in honor of the first Roman emperor - "Ottavia".

The record-breaking dish was prepared by one of the most famous chefs and five lesser-known assistants. The pizza took 48 hours to prepare, was 43 meters in diameter, and had a total area of as much as 1,208 square meters. Just imagine, to make such a giant flatbread, we needed more than 8 tons of flour and 9 tons of mozzarella! In addition, almost 4 tons of tomato puree
In addition, almost 4 tons of tomato puree, 680 kg of margarine and 190 kg of olive oil and 23 kg of balsamic vinegar were used. The total amount of pizza was more than 16 tons!

Many are probably wondering how only 6 people could cook such a huge dish - because anyone who cooked pizza at home, knows how difficult it is to knead the right dough and stretch it by hand into the thinnest flatbread. For convenience, the pizza was baked from 5,234 separate slices, which were then joined together.

After the registration chamber recorded a new record, the pizza was divided into slices and fed to all comers - believe me, there were many, as everyone wanted to see (well, and of course, take pictures) on such a large dish. However, even after the tasting, there was so much pizza left over that it was distributed to numerous orphanages throughout Italy.


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