Pizza With 1,001 Varieties of Cheese Breaks World Record
While most cheese pizzas are only topped with 2-3 different kinds of cheese, this pungent concoction has secured the Guinness World Record for the most varieties of cheese on a pizza, sporting 1,001 different types of cheese.
Created by French pizza chefs Benoît Bruel and Fabien Montellanico, with help from cheesemaker Sophie Hatat Richart-Luna and YouTuber Florian OnAir, it surpasses the previous record of 834, achieved by Morgan Niquet in 2021.
Topped with a two-gram cube of each cheese variety, the base of the pizza had to be pre-cooked to prevent the crust from tearing under the weight. Softer cheeses were place at the bottom with harder varieties layered on top.
According to Benoît, that many farmers and cheesemakers offered him their cheese for free, as they liked the idea of being part of a world record. In total, 940 of the cheeses were from France while 61 others were from various countries around the world.
Benoît achieved this record once before in 2020 when he made a pizza with 254 different cheeses. He has now almost quadrupled that number after spending five months scouring France for more varieties of cheese.
His efforts earned him an additional record for the largest display of cheese varieties (1,001), taking the title from fellow Frenchman Philippe Marchand, who procured an assortment of 730 cheeses in 2016.
"It's been a real feat being among the cheesemakers as well as being on the farms to meet the producers who are so passionate about their profession,” Benoît told Guinness World Records. “I have been a pizza maker for 13 years. I invented my own pizza recipes, and since working in my own business, my only dream is to make pizzas with the widest variety of cheeses.”
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