French bakers out to break a record sit five years ago in Italy are baking a baguette so long its length is at least equal to the height of a 30-story building or the length of 225 normal baguettes.
The 2019 Italian record-breaker was roughly the height of the Great Pyramid at Giza. The bread is being baked along with the Suresnes Baguette Show, an annual event of the French confederation of bakers and pastry chefs.
The bakers working on it must knead all of the dough by hand and then assemble it into a single piece, which must be at least 5 cm thick across its entire length, and contain only water, salt, yeast and flour. Baking it will take at least eight hours of oven time, ironic because a baguette is normally a quick-baking bread.
Once it’s measured for the Guinness Book of World Records, it will be cut open, and Nutella spread across it. Portion-size pieces will be shared with spectators, and the rest handed out to homeless people.
