Photos: The largest barbecue in the world Uruguay enters the Guinness Group

Uruguay on Sunday (December 10th) broke the Guineas record for the world's largest barbecue, with more than 10 tonnes of meat, in a competition they have been facing for nearly a decade with neighboring Argentina.

The event was organized in the southern city of Minas, which numbers 40,000 people. It required 60 tonnes of wood and more than 60 cooks who roasted meat for hours on Saturday night.

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"We have been preparing for this event since October, and we have also prepared 4,000 kilograms of Russian meat to accompany the meat, and we should have tried to break the record for this power too, but time has gone by," said project director Robert Bayares.

Meatballs are a very common tradition in Uruguay and neighboring Argentina, a record that countries have been competing with since 2008 when the first to organize the first such event. In 2011 Argentina overcame it, increasing the competition between the two countries, with each convinced that he was attending the best meat.

"We do not do all this for the Guinness book, but to defeat the Argentines," said Raul, one of the chefs involved in this national effort.

Uruguay is one of the world's major meat exporters and has three cows more than its 3.5 million population.

The work began on Saturday evening when about 200 people took part in the slaughter and weight of more than 100 cows and placed them on grills. The raw meat weight was 16.5 tons in total and Xie was made with the skin in a local technique that would preserve the meat taste.

For 14 hours, the chefs have rotated to observe the meat on the large grills. In the end, justice writer Conciolo Aruela was commissioned to check the weight to make sure the Argentinean record was 

broken by 9.16 tons.