Longest Bratwurst

Here we come across grocery shop owners who tried their culinary skills to prove that they are not far behind the women  in the kitchen. The western Wisconsin city of Prescott is about to become famous for cooking the world’s largest bratwurst. A 52-foot, two-inch sausage was grilled up and served at a charity fundraiser and made many people hop gag a over it. Pat Ptacek not  only wanted to show off his cookery skills to the world but also make the world realize  his store  has been in the business for  100 years. Yes it would have been a big proud moment for this man. He would be all smiles to see his store run successfully  for such a  long stint. This joy inspired him to try something unique whereby he could make the locals and the entire world realize  the accomplishment he has achieved and kept intact  for so long in this race.

He roped  his sons Tom and Raphael who also shared their father’s happiness  of seeing their Prescott  IGA grocery store enter its 100^th anniversary. They decided to cook a super long brat perfectly to  make the celebration enter the world record hall of fame.

Their happiness got tripled as they smashed the previous record for the longest bratwurst  which measured 47 ft , 3 inches  set in Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago. Ptacek’s Bratwurst had   smashed   the Chicago record by over 3 ft  thus challenging others to even raise their bar of performance in the future.

Ptacek’s employees made a few shorter test brats before creating the record sausage. And they needed a bun, so the Pan-O-Gold Baking Company built a special steel pan and cooked the bun in a custom oven before hauling it to Prescott – where over a dozen people were needed to cook and prepare it. Jimmy Hanson from Pan-O-Gold Baking  was summoned  to get the bun ready. Hanson said the bun required 40 pounds of dough, a custom baking pan and careful transport in a 53-foot semi trailer from the company's Sun Prairie, WI, bakery. 

The longest brat in the world was then sold with 100% of the proceeds going to Have-A-Heart, Inc., a local nonprofit offering respite care for families and kids with developmental disabilities.

The Longest Bratwurst measured 52 ft, 2 inches and was set by Prescott Grocery Store owner Patrick Ptacek and his sons at Prescott, Wisconsin, United States of America on October 10, 2012.