ALABAMA BUTTERBEAN FESTIVAL CONSTRUCTS GIANT POT IN BIRMINGHAM FOR GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS ATTEMPTTHE ALABAMA BUTTERBEAN FESTIVAL LAYS PLANS TO BUILDS ITS WAY INTO THE RECORD BOOKS FOR THE WORLD’S LARGEST POT OF BAKED BEANS
Pinson, AL (August 27, 2010) – An enormous metal pot was constructed by the Alabama Butterbean Festival in an effort to earn the festival a place in the Guinness World Records books. The pot will provide the basis for the planned Guinness World Records attempt for the Largest Pot of Baked Beans during the 2010 Alabama Butterbean Festival on Saturday, September 4th in Pinson, AL.
Planning for the monster pot started in October 2007, and will measure over 7 feet wide and 4 feet tall when complete. The vast metal pot is being constructed by Bradford & Hines Custom Metal Fabrication using stainless steel plates provided by Phoenix Metal, both of which are based in Birmingham, AL.
The pot, which will alone weigh around 1,000 pounds, will have the capacity to hold 1,200 gallons, a key factor to making the record-breaking dreams of the Alabama Butterbean Festival a reality as the current record stands at 832 gallons. In addition to the size, the pot structure must be watertight and suitable for cooking the beans.
“We are incredibly proud of how the local community and businesses have come together to help make this Guinness World Records achievement a reality. We hope to show that by working together every community can achieve its goals no matter how small, or in our case how big, they are,” commented Phil Sims, Chairman for the Alabama Butterbean Festival, on the progress of the pot.
Once finished, the Alabama Butterbean Festival’s next focus will be to gather supplies needed to cook the baked beans that will fill the pot for the Guinness World Records attempt. The Festival will be working with farmers from the California Large Lima Bean Growers Advisory Board to source the beans which will be the recipe’s most vital ingredient. Other local companies, including Food Giant, Evans Meat and RL Schreiber, will provide the additional ingredients needed.
source - community.guinnessworldrecords.com
