A restaurant has unveiled the UK’s biggest battered cheese ball – containing a gut busting 5,000 calories and tipping the scales at a whopping 2kg.
Mouth-watering pictures and videos show the delicious deep fried food creation, which weighs as much as a brick, being expertly crafted by chefs.
One brilliant shot shows stringy cheese stretching out for five feet after the molten mozzarella ball is pulled apart as wide-eyed viewers watch on.
The battered ball is the brainchild of chefs at burger restaurant Fat Hippo, who wanted to serve up a supersize version of their popular cheese ball starter.
The dish has boomed in popularity due to the popular TikTok ‘cheese pulling’ trend, with diners posting clips of stretchy strings of melted cheese online.
The jumbo recreation, smothered in hot honey Buffalo sauce and ranch dressing, contains 20 times more calories than a Big Mac.
It’s designed for four people to share, although that would still leave each diner with the epic task of chowing down on 1,250 calories on their own.
It took four hungry food lovers a whole hour to devour the jumbo version shown here.
Bosses from Fat Hippo, which has 15 sites nationwide, say the giant cheese ball could be added to the full menu – but only if there’s enough appetite from customers.
The burger restaurant’s Operations Director Michael Johnson said: “We’ve been working hard for months on end to create the jumbo cheese ball.
“Its sheer size required a new cooking approach, while still using the same fresh mozzarella, secret batter recipe and delicious toppings as the starter.
“We’re sure that we’ve successfully created the UK’s biggest cheese ball by quite some distance – which tastes just as good as it looks!”
