PARIS: French bakers baked the world’s longest baguette at 140.53 meters on Sunday, claiming the report for considered one of Italy’s most well-known nationwide emblems, which Italy has held for 5 years.
The baguette, about 235 instances longer than the standard baguette, was made in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris, throughout an occasion for the French Confederation of Bakers and Pastry Cooks.
The earlier longest baguette of 132.62 meters was baked within the Italian metropolis of Como in June 2019.
To make it higher, French bakers begin kneading and shaping the dough at 3am earlier than placing it right into a specifically constructed slow-moving oven on wheels.
“All the things has been verified, we’re all very completely satisfied that we broke this report and that it was completed in France,” stated one of many bakers, Anthony Arrigault, after the baguette was accredited by a Guinness World Data decide.
A part of the baguette, which needed to be a minimum of 5 cm thick, was minimize up and shared with the general public.
The remainder was to be given to the homeless.
A conventional French baguette have to be about 60 cm lengthy, made solely of wheat flour, water, salt and yeast.