YouTuber Max Stanford, known online as Max vs Food, devoured a colossal 12,000-calorie cooked breakfast in under 34 minutes at a cafe in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and still found room for dessert. The feast included 14 sausages, 14 rashers of bacon, 14 fried eggs, 14 hash browns and 10 slices of black pudding, along with a host of sides.
A breakfast fit for a champion
Max tackled the 11,444-calorie platter, which also featured 10 slices of fried bread, five slices of bread, five slices of toast, six portions each of beans, mushrooms and tinned tomatoes, and two pots of tea. He finished the meal in 33 minutes and 55 seconds at Tunny’s Little Common Kitchen on October 9.
The cafe is run by Carl Tunstill, a fellow British Eating League (BEL) competitor known as Tunny vs Food on social media. Max decided to double the breakfast Carl usually offers to competitors, turning it into an eye-popping challenge.
Pudding attempt
After finishing the main course, Carl brought out an eight-person serving of cornflake tart with custard. Max made a valiant effort but tapped out after 14 minutes and 47 seconds.
In a video shared online just after finishing, Max said: "Tunny that was a very good breakfast. Right until the end I was still enjoying it even though I'm very, very full."
British Eating League praise
Craig Harker, Founder and President of the British Eating League, praised both competitors. He said: "As President of the British Eating League, it’s brilliant to see Tunny going from competing as a BEL eater to opening his own café, Tunny’s Little Common Kitchen in Rotherham."
"He knows the sport from both sides now, taking on challenges himself and creating them for other eaters. Max didn’t just tackle Tunny’s breakfast challenge - he doubled it. That meant 14 sausages, 14 rashers of bacon, 14 eggs, 14 hash browns, 10 slices of black pudding, 20 slices of bread and fried bread, plus all the beans, tomatoes and mushrooms."
"Based on those quantities, you could be looking at roughly 12,000 calories, depending on portion sizes and how it’s cooked. It’s an enormous amount of food, but what stands out for me is the competitive performance. People see Max clear a breakfast like this and make it look easy, but they don’t see the preparation, discipline and determination behind it. Competitive eating is a sport with rules, time limits and rankings, and the best competitors work hard at what they do."
Calorie breakdown
Harker added: "Max is our reigning British Eating League champion and chasing his fifth title this year. This shows why he’s the UK’s number one, while Tunny’s new café is another great example of a BEL competitor turning his passion into a business."
The full meal, which contained almost six times the recommended daily 2,000-calorie intake for women, totalled 11,444 calories. The breakdown included 14 pork sausages (2,520 calories), 14 bacon rashers (980), 14 hash browns (1,848), 14 fried eggs (1,008), 10 black pudding slices (700), 10 slices of fried bread (1,500), five slices of bread (400), five slices of toast (400), six portions of beans (1,020), six portions of tinned tomatoes (288), six portions of fried mushrooms (660) and two pots of tea (120).
