Orleans Area: The Quest for the World’s Biggest Apple Pie

Orleans Area once held the record for the world's biggest apple pie. Despite setbacks, including a mid-bake catastrophe, their determination and giant pie tin remain a source of local pride. A delicious history!

The First Attempt: A Pleasant Reward

When the document was first set with a 6,000 pound pleasant reward in 1928, Orleans Area formerly boasted being the home of the globe’s biggest apple pie. Nevertheless, the world of affordable big pie-baking awaits nobody, which record was quickly damaged by other colossal brittle thrills (it’s uncertain whether all were apple).

Undeterred, local pie-enthusiasts made another attempt to cook their name in history the following year. After 5 hours and 58 mins of baking, Orleans Area’s apple pie magnificence was finally restored with a 21,210 extra pounds pie full of around 300 bushels of apples, in addition to 3,500 extra pounds of sugar, 76 pounds of salt, 600 pounds of apple juice and water, 1,144 extra pounds of spices and stabilizer, and 600 extra pounds of French bread crust.

Baking Disaster: A Car Park Covered

Orleans Region locals laid out to recover their title in the 1970s. The initial effort to do so, on August 2, 1977 at the Orleans Region Fairgrounds, ended in catastrophe when the tin that held the 17,985 lbs. pie damaged mid-bake and the half-baked pie covered the fairgrounds’ car park.

Orleans County was the only record-setter to maintain the tin in which their pie was baked, and that tin is still proudly shown. The pan received a new paint work and updated signage in 2022 as component of the 75th Orleans Area Fair. Today, you can watch the pan along with an indicator of the pie’s dish with the tin’s dimensions beside the Lartz Commercial Exhibition Structure. With a diameter of over 16 feet, the frying pan is the world’s biggest apple pie tin – try bringing that to Thanksgiving!