Giant Wedding Flatbreads Impress Online

A video posted on Instagram earlier this year showing giant rotis being prepared on a large outdoor stove in Pakistan has certainly whet appetites online, clocking up millions of likes. The footage, captured by Sohaib Ullah Jan, a food and culture blogger who regularly posts similar content, features a man perched on top of a blanket and surrounded by massive lumps of dough, with an enormous roti on the cylindrical stone stovetop cooking beside him. The man expertly picks up the steaming roti and tosses it onto the pile of equally large ones. "The video captures the making of a giant 12-foot-long traditional roti during a wedding ceremony in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan," Jan told Storyful, "A group of local chefs and helpers used traditional tools and teamwork to prepare, roll, and flip the massive roti in front of a large crowd." Rotis, which are usually much smaller and prepared with rolling pins and flat, circular pans, are commonly eaten across South Asia as an accompaniment to curry. The giant rotis seen in Jan's video are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GOEfAzDueE common to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Mardan, and are often made for special occasions like weddings. The video has since gone viral, with some claiming the baking feat to have broken the Guinness World Record for " https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-roti-chapati Largest roti/chapati ." However, the official record still dates from 2012. (Footage by Sohaib Ullah Jan/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)