{"id":3028,"date":"2025-07-17T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/social-media-chefs-cook-worlds-biggest-scotch-egg\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:19:39","slug":"social-media-chefs-cook-worlds-biggest-scotch-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/social-media-chefs-cook-worlds-biggest-scotch-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media chefs cook world&#039;s biggest scotch egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-17 13:19:36<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Two social media chefs have become Guinness World Record holders for creating the world&#8217;s biggest scotch egg.<BR><br \/>\nPhoenix Ross and Oli Paterson cooked the gigantic 17 lb 3.48 oz snack &#8211; which is larger than a bowling ball &#8211; in Enfield, London, on June 17.<BR><br \/>\nThe pair broke the original record of 13 lb 10 oz, which had stood for almost 20 years.<BR><br \/>\nTo qualify for the title, the egg had to follow the traditional method &#8211; including a fully intact yolk. <BR><br \/>\nAfter the duo&#8217;s first attempt fell apart mid-fry, they used a whole ostrich egg (11.5 cm width), wrapped it in sausage meat (6 cm thick), coated it in breadcrumbs, and then deep-fried the scotch egg (79.5 cm circumference).<BR><br \/>\nAs the ostrich shell was sturdy, Phoenix and Oli cut it open with a sword, and served up mini versions for scale, and rolled the giant egg into burritos to freeze for later.<BR><br \/>\nThe pair said: &#8220;Oh my god, it\u2019s beautiful.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-17 13:19:36 Two social media chefs have become Guinness World Record holders for creating the world&#8217;s biggest scotch egg. Phoenix Ross and Oli Paterson cooked the gigantic 17 lb 3.48&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}