Where in the world is the largest omelette?

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. Fact checking stories for Cottage Life means that I’m constantly stumbling upon weird information on the Internet. Sometimes it’s boring, sometimes it’s disturbing, and every once in a while, it’s pretty neat. Example: While verifying some info for our upcoming collection of egg recipes (see the April 2012 issue, out in mere weeks!), I discovered that Turkey holds the record for making the World’s Largest Omelette (4.401 tonnes).

People love huge stuff. The World’s Largest Cupcake, the World’s Largest Screwdriver, the World’s Largest Model of a Human Organ (ew). Whatever. To me, it’s not strange that people like to make giant things. It’s strange that they like to make giant omelettes. Everybody. Everywhere. Pretty much all the time.

The Ever Expanding History of Really Big Omelettes

1984 Three citizens of Abbeville, Louisiana make a 5,000-egg omelette

1993 Crazy Otto’s, a diner in Arizona, produces a 1,364 sq. ft omelette

1994 Japan cooks a 1,383 sq. ft. omelette

2002 The Lung Association of Brockille, Ontario busts out a 2.95-tonne omelette; the same year, Crazy Otto’s tries to reclaim victory with a 1,850.9 sq. ft. omelette

2009 Two chefs in Cape Town, South Africa take the title with a mega-huge 60,000-egg omelette, weighing more than 3 tonnes

2010 The Turkish Egg Producers Association makes the largest omelette ever, at 4.401 tonnes. Booyah!

Except, probably not for long: As you read this, someone, somewhere, is making a huge omelette. I assume it’s because The World’s Largest Pile of Scrambled Eggs just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Oh wait…there’s a record for that, too.