A team of French bakers exhibited a baguette over 140 meters long, breaking the existing record of 10 meters held by the Italians.
A team of 18 members set a new Gino’s world record in the city of Suren, west of Paris, by baking a 143.53-meter-long baguette, about 235 times longer than the traditional baguette eaten by millions of French people every day.
This French baguette required 90 kilograms of flour, 60 liters of water, 1.2 kilograms of salt and 1.2 kilograms of yeast to make a 152 kilogram dough.
Members of the French union of bakers and confectioners began kneading and shaping the dough at 3:00 a.m. and later placed it in a specially constructed oven.
“The record for the longest baguette really requires sportsmanship and togetherness. In this year of the Olympic Games, I congratulate all our bakers,” said the president of the bakers’ union, Dominik Anrakt.
He added that the baguette is an essential part of French gastronomic heritage, AFP reported.
Part of this record-long baguette, which had to be at least five centimeters thick along its entire length, was cut and shared with the audience, while the rest was given to the homeless.
The previous longest baguette, 132.62 meters long, was baked by Italian bakers in the city of Como, Italy in 2019.
