What the organisers have described as the country’s biggest food festival will include an attempt to break the world record for the biggest bowl of porridge ever made.
Organisers of the Waterford Harvest Festival said yesterday that the feat would be carried out on Sunday, September 16th, on Waterford city’s quays during Ireland’s longest open-air food market – which will stretch over two miles.
The huge breakfast of 914kg of porridge – the number matches the year 914 when Waterford city was founded by Vikings – will be cooked by Flahavan’s of Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford, and will reportedly be capable of feeding 5,000 people.
If successful, the bowl will easily exceed the existing Russian world record of 865kg of porridge, established in 2011.
The attempt will used a specially made bowl measuring 2.2 metres in height and 1.7 metres in diameter which will be placed over three gas burners on the city’s quayside for the challenge at 1pm on the Sunday of the Harvest Festival.