Ten crazy records about coffee, straight from the Guinness Book of World records

Being the world's most popular beverage, coffee has also been the occasion for some eccentric records.

The Guinness Book of World Records  brings together, since its first release in 1955, records about anything one can imagine. Odd, eccentrical, remarkable, or just funny, the recordings of the Guinness Book are spreading to various aspects of human everyday life - and coffee could not be an exception!

As the year we are running is coming to an end and the book about the records that broke down in 2018 will soon be published, it is an opportunity to recall 10 odd (or simply, unnecessary) records from the coffee world. All of the following facts are true and are officially recorded in the Guinness World Book of Records!

• The most expensive coffee capsule ever sold has cost $55 and is marketed in Singapore by Medano Coffee. If you want to taste it, you have to pay even more, as the box of five costs $ 275.
• The biggest coffee maker in the world is in Murcia, Spain. It has a height of 2,30 m and a width of 0,7 m. Perfectly suitable for Monday mornings!
• Significantly smaller is the largest ibrik for Turkish coffee, having a height of only ... 1,84 m. The supernatural briquette is in Constantinople.
• The largest collection of coffee makers, of all kinds, sizes and uses, belongs to the German Robert Dahl and consists of 27,390 different pieces.
• Speaking of sizes, it is worth mentioning the world's largest café: it is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and can serve more than 1,000 people at the same time.
• Most records recorded in the Guinness Book are at least tivial. One of these concerns the largest mosaic made of coffee beans and belongs to Albania. The impressive mosaic stretches over 25 square meters and was built by Lori Café, one of the country's leading coffee companies for advertising purposes.
• Coffee has been used - experimentally - and as a car fuel. In this context, the Guiness Record Book has recorded the 337km that a 2010 VW Scirocco was spent as the largest distance traveled by a car with coffee as a fuel.
• There are people who have a hobby (or even a profession) to break records of the Guinness Book, however odd and unusual they are. One of these record breakers, Italian Silvio Sabba, holds the record of moving more coffee beans per minute exclusively using Chinese chopstikcs: the number of beans has reached 48!
• The largest pyramid of paper coffee cups was manufactured in India in 2016 and consisted of 23,821 cups (without their content, of course).
• The largest cappuccino in the world was manufactured (of course) in Italy and consisted of 4,250 liters of coffee. It took 27 coffee machines and 13 hours to break the record.

Sure, the records featured in the Guinness book are not particularly important, and there are not many who have accused the well-known book of overcoming the boundaries of graphicness. But they do not stop being entertaining information that complements our knowledge of the coffee world. Happy New Year!