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Indian bakers make the 'longest cake', breaking the last guinness world record

'Thousands of tables and desks'
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'Thousands of tables and desks'

They spread chocolate ganache on the serpentine desert stretched out on thousands of tables and desks at a festival ground and adjoining roads in the coastal state of Kerala's Thrissur city.

'Vanilla Cake weighed around 27,000 kilograms'
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'Vanilla Cake weighed around 27,000 kilograms'

The vanilla cake, four inches (10 centimetres) wide and thick, weighed in at about 27,000 kilograms (59,500 pounds).

 

Chefs
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Chefs

Robots are being introduced to many restaurants for their endless energy to perform different tasks such as learning recipes, cooking, and cleaning up the mess. With the help of this new technology, restaurants can save on high labour cost and at the same time, provide the best and efficient service to customers by lowering waiting time. However, considering the highly sophisticated and creative level of work required in the culinary industry, it still seems to be limited to replace robot chefs from the human chef.

'6,500 metres long cake'
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'6,500 metres long cake'

Large crowds watched the event organised by Bakers Association Kerala (BAKE). The group's secretary-general, Naushad, said Guinness World Records had assessed the cake as being 6,500 metres but their confirmation of the exact length was pending.

'New Guinness world record'
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'New Guinness world record'

That much cake would surpass the Guinness record held by Chinese bakers in Zixi county who made a fruitcake almost 3.2 kilometres long in 2018.

 

'Effort to showcase our skills '
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'Effort to showcase our skills '

"This is an effort to showcase our skills to the world," Naushad, who uses one name, told AFP. 

"We ensured hygiene and taste are up to the mark."