Competitive eater. Forty-one settled attempts since the Fremont tray in 2017 — thirty-two cleared inside the clock, nine not. Both numbers are published here.
Krause's Counter, Toledo — 14 Sep, 19:04. The 4 lb 9 oz stack, four minutes before the clock.
Nothing on this site is an estimate. Every attempt below was weighed in front of the house before the clock started and weighed again after, and both slips are kept. Where a figure is missing it is because the kitchen refused the second weigh-in, and that is said out loud on the record.
Drawn from the kitchen's own build sheet, Krause's Counter, Toledo. Weights as supplied; the tray is weighed loaded and the tare taken off.
Each one weighed twice, timed by the house, witnessed by whoever happened to be in the room.
Dell's gives you ninety minutes and most people do not want the second half. The rack is not the problem; the cornbread is. I ate that first, cold, while the ribs were still coming out, which is why the time looks short.
I was eleven ounces short when the bell went and I knew at twenty-eight minutes. Cheese sets as it cools and there is nothing to be done about that. I paid the $94 and signed the board, which is the arrangement.
Hollis runs the only challenge I know of that asks for a clean plate rather than an empty one, so the last ninety seconds are a fork job. Seventeen forty is my best time anywhere and I do not expect to improve on it.
Capacity against the clock, measured on myself over four years. The curve is the whole job: there is a flat part at the end and nobody eats through it.
Room temperature, no gas, no flavour. It does nothing for the appetite and everything for the first eight minutes of an attempt, which is the only part that is pure volume.
Six pieces of gum, replaced every quarter hour. The jaw gives out before the stomach on anything dense, and a tray of brisket is 2,400 chews whether you are ready for them or not.
Half portion, timed, in the kitchen at home. If the half takes more than 40% of the house limit the attempt is cancelled and the venue is told on the Thursday, not on the day.
The fast is not for room. It is so the attempt is the only thing that happened that day. Two hundred calories of broth, eleven miles on foot, and bed at nine, which is the least interesting part of the job.
Rates are published, the refusals are published, and the first free Saturday is 6 March. If you want a specific dish attempted I need ten days and the build sheet.