So, recently I watched this video

from Great Big Story which is a channel

that I absolutely love.

They featured a sushi chef that apparently

does one of the biggest sushi's in Japan.

Pretty incredible.

And I really wanna try making one.

Technically I could ask Alvin to do it,

but that requires time and patience that I don't have.

And so, I'm gonna try and make it happen.

The only thing is, I don't really have

the resources to do it.

But there's this place called Rolln

who actually reached out to say that

they can actually do it with me.

And not only that but they are trying

to break the world record for making

the biggest nigiri in the world.

And so of course I said yes,

and so that's where I'm heading over.

I have my equipment here, tada.

Tada.

We're gonna head over to their store

and hopefully make this happen.

(upbeat music)

We finally made it here to Rolln,

I'm so excited finally make this happen.

I've been wanting to eat this,

I know that's not the focus

but I have been wanting to make a giant nigiri

and also eat it.

What made you wanna do this?

- It's our first birthday,

we've just passed one year.

So, we wanted to do something

that was exciting and also memorable.

We do serve nigiri's here so we wanted

to try the biggest nigiri we possibly could.

- I feel like a lot of people don't really

know what nigiri is, they usually think it's just sushi.

What is the difference?

- Sushi is just kinda the broad category.

And nigiri's one of the things inside it.

So nigiri is what people normally think of

as the traditional classic sushi.

It's the little piece of rice

with a piece of fish on top.

- Fish, rice, vinegar.

What are the exact quantities we're talking about today?

'Cause I know we're doing like X X X XL.

- And we've got three really large sides of salmon,

six massive pots of rice cooked, a few liters

of sushi vinegar ready to go.

We're aiming for something like,

at least 50 something pounds.

We'll see how we go.

- Man, 50 something pounds.

That's the max I can carry at the gym,

do you know that?

Do you know that?

(laughing)

- I'm sure you can do more.

- Today is gonna be a workout.

I know we're trying to break a record here today.

What was the previous record?

- We know the largest maki roll ever made

was around 13 pounds.

- 13 pounds.

13 pounds and you're saying we're making 50 pounds.

- We're trying to get 50 yeah,

there's no existing record so we're just gonna

try and be number one and try and make it

as big as we possibly can and have some fun with it.

- Amazing, okay, let's get started.

So we are gonna start with the rice first,

because that takes a long time to cook.

I have 80 pounds of rice here.

That we are apparently going to cook all of.

All right, I'm gonna--

(grabs bags)

Hold on.

Yo, I can carry it.

Maybe for like two seconds, hold on.

This is not even all of the rice we're making

but you see how big this tub is right?

(filling container)

This is the amount of rice I make for dinner.

And also like, for lunch the next day.

This is for two meals.

So this, is gonna be pretty big.

Two rice cookers.

- Two rice cookers, we're gonna put three

of these jugs in each oven.

(upbeat music)

- Okay wait, but we only have two rice cookers

and we're supposed to cook all of this.

So how many hours?

- Well, luckily we started earlier.

(laughing)

(upbeat music)

- All right, I'm gonna wash rice.

(water running)

Nothing hard, I do this every day.

It's just that this is a lot more rice

than I'm used to.

Three times.

I'm supposed to wash it for three times

until it oh okay.

Second time.

(water running)

I can already feel my arms hurting.

A lot clearer now.

Three jugs of water, so I'm gonna,

put three jugs of water.

(upbeat music)

(drops rice in)

Rice cooker one is done.

(upbeat music)

(presses button)

Great.

(claps)

All right, I'm gonna take this fish out.

Oh my god.

(exclaiming)

This is seven pounds of fish.

This is like a whole salmon.

This is literally the whole salmon right?

But like half, half of a whole.

Half of a whole salmon.

My arms hurt.

Take the fins off, de bone it.

Skin off, and break it down.

Got it.

It is a big fish.

I'm petting the fish, awkward.

(laughs)

We have this giant jug again.

This much vinegar has to go in one rice pot.

And we're making six rice pots,

which means we need three liters of vinegar.

That's a lot of vinegar.

Which is why we have this.

(laughs)

Hold on I can't even, I can't even.

This is how much, okay maybe not all of it.

But we're starting with six.

Go big or go home.

Alvin don't at me.

(horn sounding)

You wanna see the paddle I have?

You wanna see the rice paddle?

(whooshing)

It's so big.

I need this at home, I love this.

(slapping hand with paddle)

Our giant tub of rice.

(upbeat music)

I'm just gonna start mixing this together.

(upbeat music)

I'm doing a great job, okay confirmation.

I should just make tiny things, not big things.

I thought we were only using one piece of salmon,

but apparently we're using three.

(intense music)

First step, make the big shape of the nigiri

which is like an oval.

Our rice ball has to be big enough,

I can't even carry this I dunno why I tried.

(intense music)

Why am I out of breath?

(laughing)

I'm out of breath you guys.

(intense music)

Pat pat.

So we have the rice ball done,

and we're gonna put the salmon on.

But because we're gonna divide this up later,

we're gonna put like a cling wrap

just to make it easier for sharing later.

We're also gonna have support sticks.

Because it's a giant nigiri.

Highest honor of putting the first piece on.

I did not de bone this, or de skin this

because I am not qualified to do it.

(majestic music)

Final piece.

This is it y'all.

Watch me drop it on the floor.

(majestic music)

Oh my god.

Wow, wow wow wow.

Wow.

- [David] It's pretty big.

- It's so big.

Oh my god.

Gonna do some measuring because I really wanna know,

I mean it looks huge but I wanna know

exactly how big it is so I have a measuring--

(fumbling with measuring tape)

Width is roughly 15 inches.

That's huge.

Length is 22 inches.

Height is nine inches.

(pop)

How many times the size of this?

Hundreds.

262.2 minus 157, is 69.2.

That's like 70 pounds.

This is 70 pounds.

(clapping)

- [Gavin] You did it.

- Did it.

Gavin was there for moral support, so.

- Right.

(high five)

- We're gonna give this away,

but, gotta get a little taste first.

QC, you know, QC.

(upbeat music)

My first nigiri.

Okay no, second.

My second nigiri.

Cheers.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

(upbeat music)

- This was really fun, now I can say

I made the biggest nigiri in the world.

I can say that I ate the biggest nigiri in the world.

Thanks you guys, it was so much fun.

I'm gonna go eat more sushi now.

Bye.

(upbeat music)