Sunday, October 18, 2009
Largest guacamole serving-world record set
by Miami-Dade students
HOMESTEAD, Fla., USA -- Culinary students from
culinary/agricultural programs at South Dade Senior High
, John A. Ferguson Senior High
, Robert Morgan Senior
High
and Homestead Senior High
prepared a gigantic
guacamole batch that weighed 4,114 pounds-which sets the new
world record for the Largest
guacamole serving
.
Photo: A team of high school students
and chefs work to mix the world's
largest serving of guacamole
. / Photo Courtesy Fresh King
Inc. ( enlarge
photo
)
The event, called the Holy Moly Redland
Guacamole Celebration, at Schnelby
Winery in Redland
raised money for the culinary programs
at John A. Ferguson, Robert Morgan, South Dade and Homestead
high schools.
Guacamole is an avocado-based dip which
originated in Mexico. Guacamole was originally made by the
Aztecs by mashing ripe avocados with a molcajete (mortar and
pestle) and adding tomatoes and salt.
Ingredients: Ripe avocados, tomatoes,
onions, lime or lemon juice, and salt are common to most recipes.
Lime juice is added for flavor, and to slow the enzyme causing
browning. Other common ingredients include cilantro (coriander),
black pepper, jalapenos, garlic, etc.
It took about 500 pounds of tomatoes, 100
pounds of mayonnaise, 500 limes and 3,500 pounds of avocados.
The ingredients were donated by Fresh King Farms and the Krome
family groves.
The Largest
guacamole serving
was certified by the state’s weights
and measures division.
Photo
Gallery: Moly Redland's Guacamole, click here
Some students juiced limes. Others pealed
and squashed avocados. A few mixed the ingredients together.
They worked until they filled a 13-gallon bucket with guacamole.
Then they dumped it into a giant dumpster-looking cooler to
be weighed.
Chef Allen Susser
of Chef
Allen’s Restaurant
, Chef Michael Schwartz
of Michaels
Genuine Food and Drink
, Chef Darren Lee
of Intercontinental
West Miami Hotel
and Chef Giancarla Bodoni
( Escopazzo
,
Miami Beach) were each assigned one of four local high schools
with culinary programs -- South Dade Senior High, John A.
Ferguson Senior High, Robert Morgan Senior High and Homestead
Senior High -- to help them break the record.
Fresh King co-owner Peter Schnebly
,
his wife and Fresh King co-owner Denisse Serge
, and
high school agriculture teacher Will Dukes
developed
the three-day “ Holy Moly Redland Guacamole Celebration
”
— which also featured avocado recipe competitions, food, music
and dancing — to generate money for area high school culinary
and agricultural programs and to increase awareness for Florida’s
green skin avocados.
Peter Schnebly
said he plans to sponsor
the festival annually. This year’s event attracted 1,000 people,
much more than the 300-400 attendees organizers expected.
The fundraiser made about $4,800 from
the finished guacamole that was sold to benefit the schools.
Schnebly also wants to use funds generated by the event to
start a culinary institute in the Redlands area of Homestead
and Florida City to train south Florida high school and college
students.
The students surpassed the previous Guinness
world record for the Largest
guacamole serving
of 4,011 pounds, set in 2007 by
the Mexican Avocado Industry in Lynwood, California.
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Sunday,
October 18, 2009