Guinness World Record
Guinness World Record Attempt
Some of our GCSE students took part in Jamie Oliver's Guinness World Record attempt to get the most people online cooking live alongside him.
The UC4 Food and Nutrition students made homemade pasta with a tomato sauce following the cooking lesson on a live Zoom link. The students performed amazingly well and many enjoyed the fresh tasting tomato sauce and the skill of learning new pasta shapes that they hand rolled.
Together with 10,515 cooks, across six continents and 42 countries, we broke the Guinness World Record for 'Largest Cookery Lesson (in multiple venues)'.
Mrs Heard, Head of Food and Nutrition
Read what Toni (UC4) thought of the experience:
On Tuesday 1st July, we were incredibly lucky to take part in Jamie Oliver’s attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever cookery lesson.
Along with thousands of others and more than 700 schools, we joined his live virtual lesson and learned how to make homemade pasta with a fresh tomato sauce.
We started by making the pasta dough, and one of Jamie’s top chefs showed us how to shape it into fun pasta types like gnocchetti (small, ridged pieces) and pici (hand-rolled pasta that looks like thick spaghetti).
For the sauce, we chopped fresh tomatoes and mixed them with garlic, olive oil, and other seasonings. Once our pasta was cooked, we combined everything together with the sauce, added fresh basil and a sprinkle of grated cheddar cheese.
It was so much fun, and amazing to be part of such a huge, shared experience. Afterwards, we got to enjoy our delicious creations and now we’re proud to call ourselves pasta champions!