CNN —
And do you think you helped devour a really big pizza recently? You do not mind.
When Pizza Hut decided to bring back its “big New Yorker” pizza — a cheese and pepperoni pie with foldable slices that can be eaten on the go in true Manhattan style — the company wanted to find a way to celebrate the news.
The idea: bring New York to Los Angeles and work with YouTube star Airrack (aka Eric Decker).
So they headed to the Los Angeles Convention Center, which space would be big enough to hold a 13,990-square-foot pizza, with the goal of breaking the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest pizza.
On Wednesday, they got to work on the gigantic pizza. And on Friday, Pizza Hut sent out the official message: a local Guinness representative confirmed that it was indeed the world’s largest pizza.
CNN Travel emailed the Guinness for comment Friday afternoon, but received no response as of Friday, 5 p.m. ET.
To complete the daunting task, workers first laid layers of dough, tomato sauce was painted on, and then toppings were added. Once everything was ready, it was baked in pieces, according to Pizza Hut’s press release.
A total of 13,653 pounds (6,193 kilograms) of dough, 4,948 pounds of pizza sauce, more than 8,800 pounds of cheese and approximately 630,496 pieces of pepperoni went into making the record-breaking pie.
Pizza Hut CEO David Graves told Portal the pizza would not go to waste – once the pizza was ready and documented for Guinness, its 68,000 slices would be donated to local charities.
The previous Guinness record for the largest pizza in the world was set by a group of Italian chefs in 2012. Their pizza was 1,261.65 square feet, gluten-free and named Ottavia.