Cheesemakers create 6,700 pounds of poutine for world record

UPI ^ | Aug. 5, 2019 / 2:09 PM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A trio of cheesemakers teamed up in Quebec to make a world record-breaking poutine that weighed nearly 6,700 pounds.

The cheesemakers, Fromage Warwick, Fromagerie Victoria and Fromagerie du Presbytere, combined fries, gravy and cheese curds in Warwick to create a total 6,688 pounds of poutine.

Sebastien Lemay, the co-owner of Fromage Warwick, said it took about 26 to 28 hours to prepare all of the cheese curds for the poutine, while the fries were cooked up just prior to the event with the use of 40 deep-frying machines.

The previous poutine world record was 4,409 pounds, cooked up in Trois-Rivieres in 2015.

[Red Badger]

Poutine (/puːˈtiːn/; Quebec French: [put͡sɪn] ) is a dish that includes french fries and cheese curds topped with a brown gravy.

YUMMMY!..................................

[Red Badger]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I’ve never had Poutine but would definitely give it a try. Sounds delicious.

[KC Burke]

I went to the original shop that started it all. I was very unimpressed. It was prepared as advertised, it was just not anything that was worth ruining fries for preparing.

[Red Badger]

I’ve had it, but didn’t know it was called ‘poutine’ until recently............It is delicious!.............

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Red Badger]

It’s best if the fries are crisp, fried in new oil.

The ‘gravy’ should be homemade and not from a mix.................

[Fiji Hill]

You can get poutine in Manchester, NH, which has a large Franco-American population descended from transplanted Québécois.

[Red Badger]

If I ordered it here in Florida, I might get slapped.............

[PGR88]

The key is the gravy.

I’m in Canada a lot, and many small shops there just use the cheap powdered, just-add-water stuff. Tastes fake.

[golux]

Mmm. J’adore la poutine. C’etait une fois moi puis Le Grand Kenny Bunk l’ont mange ensemble. Ah! Les p’tits bonheurs...

[Lisbon1940]

Wow. They beat the old record by 50 percent.

[17th Miss Regt]

“He said, “Blessed are the cheesemakers”, but he really means the makers of all dairy products.”

[Red Badger]

I wonder who are it all?.......mmmm?...........🤔

[max americana]

as an EX Canadian, thats how it’s eaten. I find it funny I still put LOTS of mayo and mix up with ketchup on my fries and see the faces of people how I eat it at fast foods...

[max americana]

Which part of canada? I’m from Vancouver originally and only a very FEW outlets I know of use the real ingredients and recipe. Even downtown Montreal, most of the shops there use the fake stuff. You have to be outside of the city limits like Quebec City to really taste this stuff..

[Red Badger]

Ketchup and mayo is essentially Russian Dressing!............you're colluding!.......😎

[PGR88]

I travel a lot in Southern Ontario/Toronto but also Montreal area.

Most of the poutine in Southern Ontario is the “fake stuff,” on the order of how hockey rinks or amusement parks in the USA do nachos

A friend took me to a gastropub in Montreal where the chef made his gravy from roast beef and bone-stock reduction, and of course the curds were from some local organic farm, etc... I remember it being near McGill. Will search the name...

[max americana]

You mean McGill University? I have relatives who went to school there and the shops there use the real stuff and recipe. The students are anal about their poutine LOL

[Chainmail]

Great stuff but intensely fattening - In Quebec there are sorts of variants available, the most popular is Poutine with sausages..

I always tell myself to eat just a bit but end up eating every bit and watching to see if the kids leave any in their bowls.