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On September 13, 2011, the Worlds Finest Chocolate company, which is located in Chicago, entered the Guinness Book of Records with its chocolate bar, the weight of which reached 5,574 kg. This is not the first attempt to break this world record, but this time it was successful. The length of the chocolate bar is 6.4 meters, height is 91 cm.
1. Workers of companies and simply lovers of sweets look at the largest chocolate bar in the world.
2. A completely normal reaction for any child.
3. The weight of a chocolate bar from the Worlds Finest Chocolate company is almost a ton more than the weight of the former “champion”.
4. Last year, first place for the title “The largest chocolate bar in the world” was taken by a company from Armenia, which broke the record of the Italian company set back in 2007.
5. The weight of the former “champion” in this category was 4,410 kg.
6. The workers are going to weigh the chocolate bar in front of the selection committee.
7. Workers throw slings to lift the chocolate bar.
8. For the heaviest chocolate bar in the world, 544 kg of almonds, 2494 kg of sugar, 907 kg of milk powder, 771 kg of cocoa butter and 635 kg of chocolate liqueur were spent. Chocolate will participate in the “Think Big. Eat wisely”, which will take place throughout the country.
9. The children look at the chocolate bar.
10. Weighing the chocolate bar.
11. One of the company workers.
12. The director of the Worlds Finest Chocolate company stands next to a woman from the Guinness Book of Records in front of the largest chocolate bar in the world.
13. A woman from the selection committee of the Guinness Book of Records examines a chocolate bar.
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GlavRecipe.Ru presents the “chocolate records” of the past decade. Here we will talk about the very best chocolate products included in the Guinness Book of Records.
The biggest chocolate heart
February 13, 2004, Madrid, Spain. Dating site match.com unveiled a heart made from 7 tons of chocolate for Valentine's Day, setting the record for the largest chocolate heart by weight. The chocolate heart was made by the largest chocolate manufacturer in Spain, Chocovic, and was designed by artist Luis Morera. This Guinness World Records record is the second for the site, which also holds the record for the world's largest online dating site.
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Tallest chocolate skyscraper
2006, New York, USA. The world record for the tallest chocolate skyscraper in the world has been set. This skyscraper, 20 feet and 8 inches (6.6 meters) tall, is made of dark chocolate with windows from white chocolate was presented to the public at a toy store in Manhattan, New York. In total, more than 1000 kg of chocolate were used to make this skyscraper. The skyscraper was made based on the models of such buildings as Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, located in the USA. It took its creator Alain Roby more than 30 hours to make the skyscraper. Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records confirmed a new record: the chocolate skyscraper became the tallest sculpture in the world made of chocolate.
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The tallest chocolate fountain in the world
2007, Las Vegas, USA. A structure was installed at The Bellagio Hotel that set a new world record, which was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest chocolate fountain in the world. The fountain is glassed from floor to ceiling and is 27 feet (over 8 meters) high including the pump room below. About 2 tons of molten dark, white and milk chocolate in the form of a series of cascades. It took its creator Jean-Philippe Maury two years and more than 150 meters of pipes to create this mesmerizing masterpiece. stainless steel.
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The most expensive chocolate dessert
November 9, 2007, New York, USA. A local restaurateur has unveiled a $25,000 chocolate ice cream, setting a Guinness record for the most expensive dessert. Stephen Bruce, owner of the Serendipity 3 restaurant in collaboration with the luxury jewelry house Euphoria New York"created his own dessert called "Frrozen Haute Chocolate" from a mixture of 28 varieties of cocoa, including 14 of the most expensive and exotic of different corners peace. The dessert is decorated with five grams of 23-karat edible gold and served in a gold-plated goblet, the base of which is decorated with an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds. In addition to gold, the ice cream topped with whipped cream is decorated with La Madeline au Truffle, which costs $2,600 per pound. The dessert is eaten with a golden spoon decorated with diamonds, which, like the bracelet, can be taken home.
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The largest chocolate Easter egg
March 8, 2008, Alcoete, Portugal. On International Women's Day, representatives of the Guinness Book of Records recorded a new record - the world's largest chocolate Easter Egg. The egg is 14.79 m (48 ft 6 in) tall and has a diameter of 8.40 m (27 ft 6 in). Thus, the previous record for the largest chocolate Easter egg set on March 25, 2005 in Belgium by chocolate manufacturer Guylian was broken. The egg was made from 1950 kg of chocolate, reached a height of 8.32 meters, and 26 artisans worked 525 hours to make it.
The biggest cup of hot chocolate
November 9, 2009, New York, USA. Serendipity 3 restaurant set its second world record for its 55th anniversary by preparing the world's largest cup of hot chocolate. The restaurant currently holds the record for the world's most expensive chocolate dessert, set in 2007. This cup is more than 100 times the size of a regular cup of the restaurant's famous hot chocolate, traditionally made from a mixture of 14 different varieties cocoa covered with whipped cream, grated pulp orange and French chocolate chips. The prepared dessert was available on the restaurant menu, and proceeds from its sale were donated to charity.
Photo from the site: community.guinnessworldrecords.com
Longest chocolate bar
March 15, 2010, Rivarolo, Italy. In the newly opened shopping center"Teorema d'Immagine" set a world record for the longest chocolate bar. Local chocolatier A. Giordano produced a chocolate bar 11.57 meters long, beating the previous record of 6.98 m.
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The largest chocolate sculpture
April 10, 2010, Milan, Italy. A new Guinness World Record for the largest chocolate sculpture was set at the Centro Commerciale Carosello shopping center. The sculpture, 1.5 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, was made by the famous Italian chocolatier Mirco Della Vecchia from simple incredible amount white chocolate - 5.37 tons (4,868 kg).
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The largest chocolate bar
September 11, 2010, Yerevan, Armenia. The Armenian company “Grand Candy” set a new world record by producing a chocolate bar weighing 4410 kg. The chocolate bar, measuring 5600x2750x250mm, was made in 4 days using cocoa beans from Africa to mark the company's 10th anniversary. To produce chocolate, 500 kg of cocoa beans and 300 kg powdered sugar. It would take the average consumer 450 years to eat such a bar.
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The biggest chocolate bunny
2010, Sandton, South Africa. Artist Harry Johnson sets world record for largest chocolate bunny, making an exact copy of the famous Duracell ® Bunny from chocolate. The sculpture, 3.82 meters high and weighing 2,721 kg, broke the previous record for the largest chocolate bunny held by Brazil. In 2009, they produced a chocolate bunny weighing 2,800 kg (6,172 lb 15 oz) and measuring 3.4 m (11 ft) tall and 2.2 m (7 ft) in diameter.
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Yesterday in Chicago, Illinois, Worlds Finest Chocolate unveiled its latest achievement - a giant chocolate bar weighing 5,574.65 kg. This mega-chocolate was created by the company for another attempt to set a new Guinness record, and a successful one at that. The chocolate, almost 91 cm high and 6.4 meters long, beat the previous record holder by almost a ton.
1. Workers and guests in front of the largest chocolate bar in the world in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
2. Lexi Jeffrey's quite adequate reaction to the largest chocolate bar in the world. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
3. This chocolate bar broke a world record, beating the previous “champion” by almost a ton. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
4. Last year, the title of “largest chocolate bar in the world” was awarded to a chocolate bar from Armenia, which, in turn, broke the record of an Italian chocolate bar made in 2007. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
5. The weight of the previous record holder was 4,410 kg, which is almost a ton less than the weight of the new champion. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
6. Workers at Worlds Finest Chocolate prepare to weigh what they hope will be the world's largest chocolate bar. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
7. Weighing the largest chocolate bar in the world. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
8. Harry Hine (left) and Gary Wychock help move a huge chocolate bar. The chocolate is made from 544 kg of almonds, 2,494 kg of sugar, 907 kg of milk powder, 771 kg of cocoa butter and 635 kg of chocolate liqueur. The tile will tour the United States as part of an educational campaign called “Think Big. Eat wisely." (AP Photo/World's Finest Chocolate Photo, Brian Kersey)
9. Meara Tricy (left) and Lexi Jeffrey look in surprise at a huge chocolate bar. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
10. Workers at Worlds Finest Chocolate prepare to weigh a chocolate bar. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
11. A worker at the Worlds Finest Chocolate company stands in front of the largest chocolate bar in the world. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
12. Worlds Finest Chocolate CEO Eddie Opler (right) and Kimberly Partrick from the Guinness Book of Records in front of the largest chocolate bar in the world. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
13. Guinness World Records judge Kimberly Partrick inspects and evaluates the world's largest chocolate bar. (PRNewsFoto/Worlds Finest Chocolate, Brian Kersey)
For those who love sweets, we recommend eating before reading this article. Let's start the story about difficult chocolates. Every year, the world produces up to three million tons of cocoa beans. Annual coffee production doubles. The most delicious, thin and expensive beans grow in their homeland - on the continent of South America. But their collection is only five percent of the world's total.
Half of five percent is produced by Ecuador. And it is these cocoa beans that serve to produce the most famous and delicious chocolate. "Godiva" Belgian. The sweet was named after a high-ranking person, the wife of the English ruler who ruled the County of Coventry in the eleventh century. But chocolate is known in addition to its taste, shape, and number of kilograms.
Record holder
According to the latest data, the weight of the largest chocolate bar in the world is about six tons. Exact tile weight five tons seven hundred ninety two and a half kilogram. The record was set in October two thousand and eleven and was recorded in the Guinness Book. The English manufacturer Thomtons has created a multi-ton chocolate miracle. The confectioners' giant turned out to be large in size - four meters long and the same width. The chocolate maker was made for the company's centenary anniversary. Seventy-five thousand regular-sized chocolates fit in the anniversary giant.
The idea of making the largest chocolate bar in the world and breaking the previous record came to the mind of one company employee - a fanatic of the film "Charlie and chocolate factory»
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Thomtons employees were asked to comment best idea celebrating the company's centenary. Paul Bell, the author of the big chocolate bar project, says that in the film the chocolate bar was reduced in size and he suggested doing the opposite - making the chocolate bar bigger. Thus the idea of creating a mega chocolate bar was born.
Americans eat wisely
Another large chocolate bar weighing exactly five tons, five hundred seventy-four kilograms and sixty-five grams. The sweet-tooth drug was weighed precisely. The huge slab was considered the largest before the British record, and many people already worked to eat it completely.
On September thirteenth, two thousand and eleven, a chocolate bar of the largest size appeared. Its manufacturer is the company "Worlds Finest Chocolate". This was not the first time she was eager to win, and after one of her attempts she was crowned with success. She posted her record in Chicago, Illinois. The huge slab of chocolate was tall ninety one centimeter and length six point four meters.
Composition of the chocolate giant: cocoa butter seven hundred seventy-one kilograms, chocolate liqueur six hundred thirty-five kilograms, milk powder nine hundred seven kilograms, as well as sugar two thousand four hundred ninety four kilograms, almonds five hundred forty four kilograms. It turned out to be a nightmare for nutritionists and a holiday for sweet lovers. After the show, the huge slab of chocolate went on tour across America. She traveled to cities under the slogan: “Think big. Eat wisely."
So that the chocolate gets into Guinness Book of Records, she was weighed. They lifted her with the help special devices and cables. Then representatives of the book of records evaluated and examined the chocolate bar, and on October 7, two thousand and eleven, it was titled as the largest. After this, the company's sales increased.
Miracle from Armenia
A little earlier, the record was set by confectioners from Armenia. In two thousand and eleven, the Americans easily beat them by a difference of almost one ton. The Armenians took the weight four tons four hundred ten kilograms. Local confectioners created a huge creation and it was immediately entered into the Guinness Book of Records. Cocoa beans from Ganna were used to produce the giant. It measures five hundred and sixty-eight centimeters in length, one hundred and ten centimeters in width and twenty-five point four centimeters in thickness.
When it comes to world centers, you think about Switzerland, England, America, but you never think about Armenia. Not used to it. It’s good to know that the CIS countries do not lag behind the European ones, that Armenia’s record is recorded in the Guinness Book for many years.
When Armenia was striding towards a record, cameramen and photo reporters visited it. They all made their way to the chocolate slab. The Yerevan confectionery factory "Grand Candies" presented a chocolate weighing more than four tons Factory director Karen Vardanyan received an official certificate from representatives of the Guinness Book of Records. The chocolate slab was made to mark the tenth anniversary of the factory. A month later, the chocolate giant began to be divided and distributed free of charge to those who wanted it.
Italian long length
Before the Armenians, the chocolate record holders were the Italians in 2007. The longest chocolate bar was made in Turin and entered the Guinness Book of Records.
Experts from Rivarollo have produced a delight for sweet lovers that has the length six point ninety-eight meters. The initiative was taken by the recently opened Rivarollo Trading House. Author confectionery product local resident Giordano.
The mayor of the city and many local residents attended the inspection of the giant miracle. After measurements, experts announced the length - eleven meters fifty seven centimeters.
The largest chocolate bar in the world is a nice sweet record that many confectionery companies have strived for. The desire to become the creator of a masterpiece with impressive dimensions has not disappeared from the masters to this day. Therefore, confectioners are constantly fighting for a place in the Guinness Book of Records - a collection of world achievements.
The largest chocolate bar in the world, a huge painting of chocolate, a tall and large cup of hot chocolate, chocolate egg- all these miracles have already been created and included in the list of unique masterpieces. There are no limits to the imagination of confectioners who strive to make not only delicious sweetness, but also the most unusual.
Favorite sweet
As you know, Europeans became acquainted with chocolate when it was discovered New World, and liquid chocolate production became popular back in the 17th century. And only in the 19th century the familiar chocolate bar appeared, which taste qualities significantly superior to the drink, since it contains more cocoa butter.
The sweet bar is made from cocoa beans, which grow in South America and West Africa. Depending on how much cocoa mass and milk powder it contains, chocolate can be black, dark, milk or white. To create the product, the beans can be roasted and ground. Then cocoa butter, sugar, powdered milk, vanilla and various additives, such as nuts or raisins. The resulting mixture is stirred in special containers for several days, after which it is poured into preheated molds and cooled.
Fight for the record
The Italians were able to create the largest chocolate and officially record the record. They were among the first to dare to do this. The record was set in 2007 in Turin. The chocolate bar became famous not only for its weight, but also for its size. The sweetness reached a length of almost 11.5 m (unlike the previous record: 698 cm).
The chocolate bar weighed 3.58 tons. The newly formed team managed to establish the achievement confectionery factory"Rivaloro". The author of the masterpiece is A. Giordano. The mayor and many city residents attended the ceremony dedicated to the record.
Armenian confectioners were the next to present their great creation to the world. In honor of its tenth anniversary, the Grand Candy company created a huge chocolate bar that weighed 4.41 tons. The basis for the chocolate bar was cocoa beans from Ghana, the world's largest producer. Ghanaian cocoa bean production accounts for a quarter of the world market. The length of the tiles was 5.68 m, the width was 1.1 m, and the height was 25.4 cm. At the time the record was set, Karen Vardanyan was listed as the director of the factory, who was awarded a certificate issued by experts from the Guinness Book of Records. After a month of demonstration, everyone could eat the chocolate bar for free.
Tried to install this many times chocolate record and American confectioners. In September 2011, the American company World’s Finest Chocolate finally managed to achieve success. In Chicago, they created a chocolate bar that weighed about 5,574 tons. They spent on it:
- 544 kg of almonds;
- more than 2 tons of sugar;
- almost 800 kg of cocoa butter;
- about 900 kg of milk powder;
- more than 600 kg of chocolate liqueur.
After the record was recorded (cables and special fastenings were used for weighing), the chocolate bar was sent on a tour throughout America.
The last record holder
The largest chocolate at the moment is a chocolate bar created by the British confectioners of the Thorntons company.
It weighs 5,792 tons, which is equal to almost 75 thousand regular chocolates. The dimensions of this giant are 4x4 m.
The author of the idea to create the largest chocolate bar in the world is Paul Bell. And the tile was created in honor of the company’s centenary. All employees were invited to submit their ideas for celebrating the anniversary. Paul Bell was inspired by his favorite movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and thought the best way to celebrate would be to set a new world chocolate record.
Other chocolate records
The largest chocolate Easter egg was created in Argentina in 2012. Its height was about 850 cm, and it had a diameter of 550 cm. The egg was created in the central square of the city for 2 weeks in front of all curious passers-by. It took about 4 tons of chocolate to create the product.
One of the outstanding achievements in confectionery considered to be the creation of the highest chocolate fountain, which was made in 2007 in Las Vegas. It uses about two tons of white, dark and milk chocolate, and it reaches a height of about 8 m. The creator of the fountain is Jean-Philippe Maury.
Truffles from the American company Chocopologie by Knipschildt are considered the most expensive in the world. Their price is 5 thousand dollars per 1 kg.
Huge chocolate heart was made in Madrid (Spain) in 2004. It was prepared in honor of Valentine's Day. The heart weighs 7 tons. The manufacturing company is Chocovic.
The largest chocolate sculpture was made in 2012 by the Qzina Specialty Food company. Weight - 8.273 tons, height - 1.83 m, and dimensions 3.08 by 3.08 m. The sculpture is an exact copy of the Mayan temple.
