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The record’s been set and the dough’s in your court, so to speak. Could you beat the new record of 264.08 meters (866.404 feet) for the world’s longest pizza recently set by Coppola Leone in Gavirate, Italy?

This past May, Guinness officials and PMQ’s publisher Steve Green were there to bear witness to the spectacle—100 of Leone’s staff and friends worked on assembling the pizza, 400 others volunteered, and onlookers from all over Italy and its surrounding countries came out to watch Leone stretch, sauce and top his way into the record books while beating the previous record by a full 24 meters.

This view of the record-breaking pizza shows less than half of the total length.

If you’re eyeing the record for yourself, don’t expect to have enough ingredients on hand to create the world’s longest pizza. Leone used 800 kg. of dough, 700 kg. of tomato sauce and 600 kg. of mozzarella. It took three refrigerated trucks just to transport it all!

Making sure the pizza stayed connected throughout the challenge was a very involved process that included using metal mesh sheets that needed to be carefully coordinated and shifted while the pizza gradually made its way out of the oven.

After 23 years in the pizza business, two World Pizza championships, and four successful pizzerias to his name, Leone decided it was time for a new challenge. What better way to test yourself than to take on a world record? Bravo Leone!

Coppola began with 300 meters of wire mesh to support the pizza. The dough was then formed into retangles no wider than oven width. The ends of the rectangles were then joined together, and – after sauce and cheese application – carefully pulled through the oven with a hook. Speed is regulated by communication with the lead pullers, who eventually struggle with the weight.

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