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The Biggest Bowl Of Soup Ever Made Was Over 8,000 Gallons By Jessica Riggio Nov. 21, 2025 7:39 pm EST

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In 2024, 45 chefs made history when they gathered around a gigantic cauldron in the Turkish city of Uşak and cooked up one big pot of soup. It was on the second day of the first annual International Uşak Tarhana Festival, a celebration of one of Turkey's most traditional soups, and thousands of people gathered to watch the phenomenon. These chefs weren't just preparing soup to serve festivalgoers (though there was plenty of that); they were working on something bigger. Chefs started making this batch of tarhana with one goal in mind: to make the biggest bowl of soup ever recorded, and they were monitored the whole tim

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