Asia's "largest race car" revs up some bread torque

Juniper Foo | Aug 31, 2009

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Unlike last year's more delectable chocolate-powered outing which was actually cruise-worthy, this yeasty racer coasts on carb control and won't be going places. Visitors in Singapore can take a peek at "Asia's largest race car made from bread" at the Royal Plaza on Scotts lobby till September 27 when the Singapore F1 night race kicks off in high gear.

The constructor team, so to speak, comprised six chefs, two artists, two technicians, two culinary staff members and five volunteers from Metta Welfare Association who modded themselves a life-size Formula One car made up of 1,000 loaves of 22 different varieties.

For the score, these chalked up 15kg (33 pounds) of yeast, 14 liters of water, 2kg (4.4 pounds) of salt and around three gallons of varnish, costing S$15,000 and 549 hours to construct. If you can ignore how much bread this could have fed the malnourished nations, or what's to become of all that effort after the show is over, this F1 outing might set a new record of the culinary variant. Watch the team at work in the vid below.