Corus curry favour in new world record

10 Aug 2005

Corus Service Centres in Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton, are celebrating their part in a new world record – for cooking the world’s largest ever curry!

Two tonnes of steel were donated to fabricate a bespoke cooking pot measuring 30ft by 4ft and capable of holding 10 tonnes of chicken tikka masala. Corus supplied 1.5 tonnes of hot rolled sheet and half a tonne of box section in various lengths, both on behalf of long-standing customer Banro, based in nearby Walsall, who designed this balti dish with a difference and organised the fabrication.

Corus Strip Processing section manager, Warren Bickley, says: “I think we can safely say this is the most unusual request we’ve ever had for our steel, but we were only too pleased to get involved and shear the steel down.

“Apart from breaking a world record, the event went towards raising £50,000 for a much needed rehabilitation centre in one of the most deprived areas of Bangladesh.”

Chef Abdul Salam (of the Eastern Eye restaurant in Lichfield) smashed his own world record of 3.1 tonnes in this latest extravaganza. He is a former British Curry Chef of the Year and said it wouldn’t have been possible without the unique cooking vessel conjured up by Corus and Banro.