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Cooking for 41 hours

Author Damien Wilde
Posted On 20th August 2014

ClockWe’ve seen and heard of some pretty exhausting shifts that have been put in by chefs, but the near two day shift worked by Gareth Kyle really does take the biscuit – and the world record.

As part of the Eat! Festival, Kyle, from Gateshead, set himself the mammoth challenge of breaking the current world record for non-stop cooking. Over the weekend he put in a ridiculous 41 consecutive hours in Newcastle city centre and entered the record books.

Streamed live, Gareth’s event will now enter the Guinness Book of World Records and as per the rules passers-by got to sample his culinary handiwork as none of the food prepared could go to waste.

“It was hard in the middle of the night…but I got to the end. I have had a phenomenal amount of support from family and friends and even strangers,” he said.

Luckily he was allowed a brief break every hour, allowing him to refuel and have the odd comfort break, but he waived that right instead opting to store them up and take one hour off every twelve hours – but even then he didn’t sleep.

The Gateshead chef also showed off his versatility, opting cook a number of items from comforting chocolate brownies and other items of confectionary, right through to Spanish styled tapas dishes and even rustled up a pizza party too.

Some people who got their hands on some of the food rustled up described it as “absolutely gorgeous,” which should not be a surprise as Kyle, 31, won the 2011 Masterchef Live competition at London Olympia a couple of years ago.

What was the most gruelling part of his feat of gastronomic endurance?

“The toughest thing,” he said to the press when asked, “wasn’t the tiredness of wanting to be asleep. It was the aches and pains in my back and legs of actually just being on my feet and cooking for that length of time.”

And yes, per the rules all the food had to be eaten and though some of it went to those who attended the festival, much of it was donated to a local homeless charity.

photo: Alvesgaspar – Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

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