What is the world's largest pizza?
According to Guinness World Records, the largest pizza ever made covered about 1,296 square meters. It was made in Los Angeles in January 2023 by Pizza Hut and YouTuber Airrack, and cut into more than 68,000 slices.
The giant pizza was assembled inside the Los Angeles Convention Center. It used about 6,193 kilograms of dough, 2,244 kilograms of cheese, 2,358 kilograms of sauce and nearly 630,000 pepperoni slices. After it was measured and certified, the pizza was donated to food banks.
The previous record had stood since 2012, when a gluten-free pizza called Ottavia, measuring about 1,261 square meters, was made in Rome. Its name honored the Roman emperor Octavian, and it was made by a team of Italian chefs.
Other pizza records
There are records for the longest pizza too. In 2021, a pizza about 2 kilometers long was baked in California. Italy has also set records for long pizzas, including one more than 1.8 kilometers long made in Naples in 2016.
Did You Know?
Americans eat about 3 billion pizzas a year, and pepperoni is consistently the most popular topping in the United States.