These Wisconsin brothers will attempt to build the world's largest grilled cheese sandwich

The current holder of the Guinness world record for the largest grilled cheese sandwich is from Vermont.

They achieved that record at a food festival in Florida.

That's not acceptable to Dominic Pulera and his nephews, Exodus and Iggy Chaudhry, who have a family YouTube channel, The Exodus and Iggy Show.

"Grilled cheese is a vital part of the culture of Wisconsin, and this is one of the best places in the world to break the record," Pulera said.

So the 10- and 11-year-old brothers, who live in Delavan, together with Pulera and a team of family and friends will try to break the record in Milwaukee on Oct. 21.

"The idea for doing this came from me," Iggy said in a recent interview with the Journal Sentinel.

Exodus seems fine giving the credit to Iggy, although he does balk at Iggy's contention that the idea for their YouTube channel came from him.

"Me and my brother were watching YouTube, and I came up with the idea to have our own channel," Iggy said.

"Um, no, Iggy, I came up with the idea," Exodus corrected his brother. "How it started was we were watching a bunch of YouTube videos, and I told my mom we should make our own videos, so we did, and, yeah, I guess Iggy told her too that we should do that."

So the brothers started the YouTube channel with the help of their mom and uncle; on the family channel, the brothers, who were born in Spain, document their trips to places like Japan, Honduras, Disney and the Mall of America.

"Then we started watching YouTube videos where they would do things like make the world's largest pizza, and I wanted us to do that, too," Iggy said. "I decided we should do grilled cheese because I love grilled cheese."

In order to break the record, the team will have to build a sandwich that is bigger than .52 meters by 3.05 meters by 6.35 centimeters (5 feet by 10 feet, .5 inches by 2.5 inches). Pulera estimates that a sandwich of those dimensions will weigh at least 150 pounds.

How do you make a 50-square-foot grilled cheese?

The team has done a few practice runs to construct the sandwich.

"One of our mom's friends is a welder and they made a pan for us," Exodus said.

Pulera describes the pan as a "custom baking apparatus that's basically like a giant griddle."

On the day before the event, the team will roll out dough over the griddle in order to prepare the bread, which Exodus noted is "the worst part." The bread will be transported to Milwaukee, where it will be reassembled with 60 pounds of shredded cheddar cheese on the griddle that sits on 100 concrete blocks.

At the event itself will be what Pulera describes as "the big reveal" where the team will finish cooking the sandwich. Then an adjudicator from Guinness World Records will determine whether they have achieved the record.

"There's suspense involved in this," Pulera said. "Because, for all the work we've put into this, we won't know until the very end if we've gotten the record."

Who's going to eat the giant sandwich?

After the sandwich has been completed and judged, it will be divided into 4-by-4-inch pieces that attendees of the event are welcome to enjoy. The remaining pieces (because the sandwich will likely be big enough to feed roughly 750 people) will be donated to Repairers of the Breach, Sojourner Family Peace Center and Interchange Food Pantry.

And fans of Exodus and Iggy's YouTube channel can expect a video documenting the event within the next few weeks.

The event, which is free to the public, will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Tripoli Shrine Center, 3000 W. Wisconsin Ave., with the big reveal and judging taking place at noon.