PARIS — French bakers cooked the world’s longest baguette on Sunday (May 5) at 140.53 metres, reclaiming a record for one of the nation’s best-known emblems taken by Italy for five years.
The baguette, about 235 times longer than the traditional one, was made in Suresnes in the suburbs of Paris during an event for the French confederation of bakers and pastry chefs.
The previous longest baguette of 132.62 metres was baked in the Italian city of Como in June 2019.
To better that, the French bakers began kneading and shaping the dough at 3 am before putting it in a specially-built slow-moving oven on wheels.
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