Very Big but Very Tasty Pasty Too

A team of bakers have created the world's largest Cornish pasty - measuring around 15ft in length and weighing almost a ton. The 1,900lb (850 kg) 'snack' contained a staggering 1,750,000 calories and took 11 hours to cook in a specially built oven. The record-breaking pasty was crammed full with 165 kg of beef skirt and sackfuls of potatoes, onions and Swede. The bakers cooked up the snack as a part of the TV Show   Good Food TV series.  The exact quantities were 180 lb of Swede, 100 lb of potatoes,   and 75 Lb of onions.

The Cornish snack was hand crafted by six bakers  from Proper Cornish and  the team looked ecstatic after having broken the world record. The pasty, which is over 4 meters long, 1.4 meters wide and weighs almost 1 tonne, was made at Proper Cornish’s factory in Bodmin, Cornwall. At the factory it was officially weighed before being delivered to Fowey yesterday where it was measured and tasted before being cut up and distributed to hundreds of hungry onlookers. The previous record was 400 kg. The enormous meal would have cost £7,000 to buy whole and was equivalent to around 3,500 normal-sized pasties. The huge pasty   was produced as a part of  the new programme Monster Munchies  which was  presented by Matt  Dawson  and was aired  on the week nights. Monster Munchies, an RDF Television production, celebrates Britain ’s best food by supersizing some classic dishes. Two local businesses per area make two competing teams.

The pasty was so large that   it had to be transported by lorry to a special weigh bridge for verification while it was still being cooked. A special oven had to be built to accommodate the  giant sized pasty and to cook it well.   The  Proper   Cornish  team beat rivals Lostwithiel Bakery in the 24 hour race at Cornwall's Fowey Regatta and their gigantic pasty was later broken up and dished out to the hungry crowd. Director Mark Muncey said his winning team were   tired but very excited  to have set a new benchmark after surpassing the previous one.

The  Largest Cornish Pasty  weighed 850 Kg and was set by proper Cornish  at Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom on August 23, 2010.