Strength athlete and competitive eater Jesse Pynnönen participated in the challenge of the Helsinki restaurant Saslik to eat as many blinis as possible in an hour. In the end, they had to be devoured for more than 10,000 kilocalories.
“Now I understand why 15 can be quite a lot here”, Jesse Pynnönen says after putting the first forkful of tuhtia blini from the Helsinki restaurant Saslik in his mouth.
Pynnönen, known as a strength athlete, tube runner and competitive eater, has come to the restaurant to test how many blinis he can eat in an hour.
The background is Saslik's blini week challenge, where the person who eats the most blinis, i.e. thick buckwheat pancakes fried in butter, is rewarded with a restaurant gift card. The previous record was seven songs.
Pynnönen, known for his fierce eating challenges, did not want to distort the competition by participating in the competition for real, because he is a systematically trained competitive eater.
Still, he decided to test how many blinis go down in an hour. At the same time, he filmed the performance on YouTube. He has almost 50,000 followers on the video service.
To the table At first, 15 blinis with side dishes were brought in front of Pynnönen. The amount of food might seem relatively small at first glance, but it quickly became clear why the challenge was real.
“Yes, the blinis were really naughty, even though they looked innocent at first. Surely many would fill up with just one or two,” Pynnönen tells HS.
He estimates that one blini has up to a thousand kilocalories. Saslik's blinis are very thick and greasy.
In the end, Pynnönen managed to eat 11 whole blinis with side dishes in an hour. Even though the previous record was broken by throwing away, he was a little disappointed with the final result and would have liked to have eaten all 15 blinis.
On the other hand, Pynnönen points out that he consumed more than 10,000 kilocalories in one sitting – that is, his energy needs for more than two days ahead.
“I still felt really good afterwards. Challenging yourself is always fun,” he says.
Pynnönen is known for special food challenges where huge amounts are eaten at once.
Recently, for example, he went to John Scott's Arkadia in Helsinki's Kamppi to test the approximately 2.5 kilo fish and chips challenge, which he managed to complete in just over half an hour.
Despite the large amounts of food, Pynnönen says that on a weekly basis, he does not eat more than what a competitive athlete should eat anyway. In practice, he therefore fasts for part of the week, when the amount of calories has time to level off.
However, he does not recommend trying similar challenges, unless he has thoroughly understood the risks involved.
And what is the use of such challenges, or are they mostly playing with food and wasting it?
According to Pynnönen, it's about entertainment. At the same time, he reminds us that in his case, not much food is usually wasted in challenges.
“But of course, eating such amounts of food at once is in no way necessary for living.”
Although Pynnönen cannot encourage food challenges without reservation, he gives his full recommendation to blinis.
He only tasted them for the first time during Saslik's challenge and immediately liked the salty taste.
“Of course, it's worth testing all other new foods without prejudice,” he says.
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