Chef 'flips’ record

Press, 4 April 1989, Page 5

Chef 'flips’ record

PA Wellington Mixing 40kg of flour, 300 eggs, 200 litres of milk and 10 litres of oil and cooking in crepe pans for 24 hours was a recipe for success for a Wellington chef, Brent Storey. Over the week-end Mr Storey whipped up 2124 pancakes — and a world record. Spending 24 hours, from 11 a.m. on Saturday, slaving over three gas burners in the Portland Towers Hotel where he is head chef, Mr Storey broke the world pancake record and raised $lBOO for the Child Cancer Foundation. The pancakes were sold for $1 each

and staff of the hotel sponsored him for each pancake. The record-breaking pancake was produced at 12.46 a.m. Sunday and eaten by the chef. Mr Storey said he had the idea when he saw the previous world record of 1325 pancakes in 24 hours set at a food fair in Birmingham. It took him two weeks to arrange the attempt. A Child Cancer Foundation volunteer, Mr Ken Taylor, said the money would go to helping accommodate out-of-town parents who visited children suffering from cancer and to provide for child cancer sufferers.