Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to set a record for most bunless Hofmann hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes at the New York State Fair in Syracuse on August 26.
Jon Bello will attempt to set a record for most German weiners eaten in five minutes later today in Jacksonville. The record will be sanctioned by RecordSetter.com, the same organization that oversaw the Crif Dog Classic. update July 9 News4Jax has an article about the record attempt.
Takeru Kobayashi's appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon can be viewed online. Kobayashi ate 54 cocktail sausages in a minute to claim a world record.
Totally Driven TV has a report on Takeru Kobayashi's appearance at Harrah's Philadelphia today where he broke two record: he broke his previous cheesesteak record of 24 seconds by 0.4s and a new Harrah's Food Challenge record (1:52) consisting of a cannoli from Varallo, a 10†Margherita pizza from Caffe Napoli and macaroni & cheese from BarleyQue. (video) update May 13 DelCo Times has a report from the event and timed Kobayashi's cheesesteak attempt at 24.7 seconds.
GuinnessWorldRecords has a video of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski setting the record for most Jaffa cakes eaten in one minute at the Guinness headquarters in London.
Dale Boone claimed a world record after finishing a 17 inch pizza in 2:51 at the Sbarro in Bangalore, India. (gallery)
Stephanie Torres' total of 3.25 pounds of cheese fries in 8 minutes was claimed to be a national record. Takeru Kobayashi ate five pounds of cheese fries in five minutes in the first round of the US Open of Competitive Eating in 2005. (The only other US Open cheese fries result I could find was Carlene LeFevre's total of 3 lb. 3 oz).
Guinness World Records reports that Takeru Kobayashi broke the Guinness record for eating a 12 inch pizza with a time of 69.36 seconds.
Kobayashi announces that he set a Guinness record on the Wendy Williams Show this morning by eating 14 Twinkies in one minutes. (video | gallery)
Angie Romenesko has a picture of the page in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records listing Pat Bertoletti and Joey Chesnut's record of 3 Mars bars in a minute set last year in San Diego.
RecordSetter announces Takeru Kobayashi's total in today's turkey record attempt was 8.52 pounds in 10 minutes. update The official amount was 7.5 pounds (gallery) update Nov 24 Huffington Post has a video update Nov 24 #2 Huffington Post report |
GuinnessWorldRecords has video from a Japanese television program where Kobayashi attempted to break the Guinness record for burgers by eating 10 burgers in 3 minutes. (Audience video from the record attempt in New York City in August 2010)
The IFOCE records page has been updated with Bertoletti's winning amount in the boneless wing eating contest held in Boonville, MO, but the boned wing record remains the same even though Bertoletti exceeded it by over three pounds in a contest held in Dallas last month.
It has been over two weeks since Pat Bertoletti won the Wingstop wing eating contest in Dallas on April 13 and results have not been posted on the contest page on IFOCE.com. (Results have been added to more recent contest pages.) Bertoletti's winning total has not been listed on the IFOCE records page despite being more than three pounds greater than the previous record.
TMZ has pictures of Takeru Kobayashi with the world's smallest woman and the most pierced woman in the world taken at the recording of an Italian television program about Guinness record holders. Kobayashi has pictures of other record holders on his blog: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
The Mainichi Daily News reports that a 300 pound hamburger created in Miyazaki, Japan received recognition from the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest burger on sale. (Via BurgerDogBoy)
Kobayashi fails to break Guinness pizza record
update Nov 15 The Brooklyn Eagle has an article with quotes from George Shea.
Kobayashi has a blog entry about his record attempt.
CBS New York reports that Takeru Kobayashi failed to break the Guinness pizza record. His time of 2:03 to eat a 12 inch was 18 seconds off of the record of 1:45.
update In a New York Daily News article, Kobayashi says the pizza’s poor condition contributed to his failing to break the record.
Gothamist has some pictures.
Examiner has an interview with Kobayashi. According to the interview, Kobayashi’s return to the IFOCE in 2011 does not appear likely.
Japanes sports website Sponichi Annex has an article about Kobayashi’s record attempt.
Both the Cincinnati.com article and a video caption list the bratwurst record as 44 sausages. The actual IFOCE bratwurst record is 58 sausages by Takeru Kobayashi at the 2006 Sheboygan bratwurst contest.
Herald Standard reports that Brad Sciullo ate five pounds of spaghetti in 4:23 at the Italian Festival in Uniontown, PA, breaking a world record of 4:31. The official IFOCE pasta record is 6.67 pounds in 10 minutes by Cookie Jarvis even though Takeru Kobayashi ate 13 pounds in 14 minutes at the 2005 US Open of Competitive eating.
VolitionTube has a video of the Guinness Mars bars record eating attempt by Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski's facebook announces that he ate a 72 ounce steak (meat only, no sides) in 6:48, which will be recognized by Guinness as a world record. Pete also won a contest to guess the number of OMG burgers sold by The Catch restaurant in Anaheim.
Joey Chestnut will attempt to break the record for the most Mars bars consumed in one minute at the Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 22. Pat Bertoletti and Tim Janus will also be present at the event.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski will attempt to set a record for eating a 72 ounce steak at the Hamilton, Ontario Tiger-Cats CFL game on Friday.
Kobayashi meatball record attempt
DumboNYC has a picture of Takeru Kobayashi at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn where he attempted to break the Guinness eating record of 26 meatballs in 1 minute.
update Gothamist has a blog entry with pictures.
update #2 DumboNYC has a blog entry and gallery. A video is also available.
Ben Monson eats 59 pancakes at IHOP AYCE
The International House of Pancakes recently restarted its all you can eat offer. An IHOP official told Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle that the all time AYCE pancake record is 46, which is contradicted by Ron Koch’s total of 50 pancakes in 2008.
Andrew “A Bomb” Lane has a blog entry about eating 23 pancakes at IHOP. His server told him that he no longer hold the record at that location; a woman ate 40 pancakes earlier in the week.
A bodybuilding.com member ate 26 pancakes in 45 minutes, which he claims is 2 less than what Pete Czerwinski ate.
update Jan 11 Ben Monson has posted pictures to bodybuilding.com from his trip to IHOP today where he ate 59 pancakes (via comment)
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