Miami Dade Students Serve The Largest Guacamole

Culinary students   at South Dade Senior High, John A. Ferguson Senior High, Robert Morgan Senior High and Homestead Senior High had a good day out in the kitchen. They had a platform to display their culinary skills which they did not do in a mediocre way but in a   grand way. They prepared a gigantic Guacamole   that weighed 4114 pounds   to set the world amazes at the largest Guacamole ever delivered till date. The previous record for the largest Guacamole  serving  which weighed 4011 pounds was  surpassed  by the current record  by over 100 pounds more.

The team of high school students and chefs   combined skills and creativity   to mix the largest serving of Guacamole.  The event, called the Holy Moly Redland Guacamole Celebration, at Schnelby Winery in Redland   raised money for the culinary programme at John A. Fergusson, Robert Morgan, and Homestead High Schools.

Guacamole is an avocado-based dip which originated in Mexico. Guacamole was originally made by the Aztecs by mashing ripe avocados with a molcajete  (mortar and pestle) and adding tomatoes and salt. The ingredients into the recipe are as follows Ripe avocados, tomatoes, onions, lime or lemon juice, and salt are common to most recipes. Lime juice is added for flavor, and to slow the enzyme causing browning. Other common ingredients include cilantro (coriander), black pepper, jalapenos, garlic, etc.

 It took about 500 pounds of tomatoes, 100 pounds of mayonnaise, 500 limes and 3,500 pounds of avocados. The ingredients were donated by Fresh King Farms and the Krome family groves.

The   largest Guacamole serving was weighed   and certified by the state’s weights and measures division. Some students juiced limes. Others pealed and squashed avocados. A few mixed the ingredients together. They worked until they filled a 13-gallon bucket with guacamole. Then they dumped it into a giant dumpster-looking cooler to be weighed. Chef Allen Susser   Chef of   Allen Restaurant ,  Chef Michael Schwartz of  Michael Genuine Food and Drink,  Chef Darren Lee of  Intercontinental West Miami Hotel   and Chef Giancarla Bodoni  (Escopazzo Miami Beach) were each assigned one of four local high schools with culinary programs -- South Dade Senior High, John A. Ferguson Senior High, Robert Morgan Senior High and Homestead Senior High -- to help them break the record.

   Fresh King co-owner Peter Schnebly, his wife and Fresh King co-owner Denisse Serge, and high school agriculture teacher Will Dukes developed the three-day “Holy Moly Redland Guacamole Celebration” — which also featured avocado recipe competitions, food, music and dancing — to generate money for area high school culinary and agricultural programs and to increase awareness for Florida’s green skin avocados.

   Peter Schnebly said he plans to sponsor the festival annually. This year’s event attracted 1,000 people, much more than the 300-400 attendees organizers expected. 

   The fundraiser made about $4,800 from the finished guacamole that was sold to benefit the schools. Schnebly also wants to use funds generated by the event to start a culinary institute in the Redlands area of Homestead and Florida City to train south Florida high school and college students.

The largest serving of  Guacamole  weighed  4114 pounds and was set by  Miami Dade Students at Homestead, Florida,United States of America on October 18, 2009.