The small city of Minas in Uruguay has set a new Guinness world record by hosting the largest barbecue ever.
Almost 200 cooks used 60 tonnes of wood to fire up their gigantic barbecue on which they grilled 16.5 tonnes of raw meat for a total of 14 hours.
The aim was to break Argentina's previous record, which took the title from Uruguay in 2011.
There is fierce rivalry between the two neighbouring countries over who produces the better beef.
Uruguay, which has three times as many cattle as it has inhabitants, is one of the world's main beef exporters.
The beef for the record-breaking barbecue was weighed twice, once in its raw state and again once it had been cooked.
The cooked weight had to surpass the 9.16 tonnes grilled in the Argentine city of La Pampa in 2008 to establish a new Guinness world record.
A notary confirmed that the Uruguayan barbecue weighed in at 10.36 tonnes.
Almost 200 cooks used 60 tonnes of wood to fire up their gigantic barbecue on which they grilled 16.5 tonnes of raw meat for a total of 14 hours.
The aim was to break Argentina's previous record, which took the title from Uruguay in 2011.
There is fierce rivalry between the two neighbouring countries over who produces the better beef.
Uruguay, which has three times as many cattle as it has inhabitants, is one of the world's main beef exporters.
The beef for the record-breaking barbecue was weighed twice, once in its raw state and again once it had been cooked.
The cooked weight had to surpass the 9.16 tonnes grilled in the Argentine city of La Pampa in 2008 to establish a new Guinness world record.
A notary confirmed that the Uruguayan barbecue weighed in at 10.36 tonnes.
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