Carmen Torres reports that Stephanie Torres and Aaron Ybarra set the record for the 28 inch pizza challenge at Red Devil Pizza in Granada Hills with a time of 7:18, breaking Ben Monson and Damon Wells record of 8:15. (video) update Naader Reda reports that Stephanie Torres and Damon Wells set the record at Valenti's Pizza in Victorville, CA earlier this month (video).
New recent California challenge records
Matt Stonie broke the Broken Yolk Ironman Omelet record (now 7:15) and Stephanie Torres set a new women’s record of 12:11. | video | gallery | Naader Reda blog entry
Johnnie Excel and Stephanie Torres set a record for the 2 person XL Pizza Challge at Ballpark Pizza in Rancho Santa Margarita. | Video | Gallery | Johnnie Excel blog entry
Matt Stonie set the King Ranch 5 pound burrito record at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim (4:17). | Gallery | Naader Reda blog entry
Stephanie Torres is the first person to finish 5 of the 6 courses in the $1000 Pho King Way challenge, but she has not received her T-shirt consolation prize.
Jessica “Queen of Cuisine” will set the female record for the 2 pound burger at the Net Grill in Fresno after she is the first woman to attempt the challenge on Sunday.
Stephanie Wu has a report on last Sunday's cheesecake sandwich contests at Philly's Best in Corona, CA won by Johnnie Excel and Stephanie Torres. A facebook gallery is also available.
Johnnie's Excel's facebook page announces that he set the record for the 5 pound 5 Alarm Burger at the Buffalo Fire Department (16:37) and Stephanie Torres broke the house record at El Nopal by eating 5 "pregnant" burritos weighing 2 pounds each in 90 minutes (gallery). Johnnie has started a blog and youtube channel to document his eating challenges and contests.
Stephanie Wu has a blog entry and video about Saturday's hot dog eating contest at the Americna Festival in San Diego won by Stephanie Torres.
Stephanie Wu reports that Stephanie Torres won a hot dog eating contest at the American Festival in San Diego by eating 14 hot dogs in 5 minutes. Johnnie Excel was the runner-up with 12.
Johnnie Excel's facebook announces that Stephanie Torres broke his overall house record of 60 sushi plates by one at Sushilicious in Irvine, CA yesterday. Stephanie tripled the previous women's record of 20 plates. update Pictures have been posted.
The facebook for Sushi Delight in Lomita, California announces that Stephanie Torres set a record of 11 minutes for the Godzilla roll challenge. Stephanie completed the spicy sushi challenge after finishing the Godzilla roll.
Johnnie Excel sets two eating challenge records
The facebook for Johnnie Excel announces that he set two challenge records this weekend. He finished the Iron Man challenge omelet at the Broken Yolk in 13 minutes and ate 60 plates of sushi at Sushilicious.
Stephanie Torres was not allowed to attempt to break the women’s record since only one record attempt per day is allowed at Sushilicious. She will attempt the record on Wednesday and finished a 5 pound burrito in 14 minutes at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim as a replacement challenge.
Stephanie Torres attempted the OMG burger at The Catch in Anaheim for an upcoming episode of "Outrageous Food" on the Food Network.
Steph vs. Food youtube channel started
(via Man vs. Food facebook) A youtube channel has been started documenting Stephanie Torres eating challenges. Videos of her completion of a 7 pound “Extreme Grizzly” burrito in 18 minutes from Marianito’s in San Antonio and a spicy “Four Horsemen Burger” from Chunky’s Burgers (also in San Antonio) in 3 minutes are available.
This gives Stephanie Torres four successful eating challenges since December 2009. She also finished the 72 ounce steak from the Big Texan and the B3 Burrito from the NASCAR Cafe.
The NASCAR Cafe's twitpic page has a picture of Stephanie Torres, who completed the six pound B3 Burrito yesterday. Ms. Torres also completed the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan in Amarillo, TX in December.
105 pound woman finishes 72 oz Big Texan steak
Stephanie Torres is one of the most recent additions (December 18) to the list of 72 ounce steak finishers at the Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas. At 105 pounds, she is one of the all time lightest successful challengers. Aty Vargas was an eyewitness to Ms. Torres’ meal and reports that she defeated her father, the owner of the restaurant, in a steak eating contest.
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