Chef batters pancake stack record

An Australian chef battered his way into the world record books on Pancake Day.

Andy Wrobel claimed the title for the world's tallest stack of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, reports Metro.

He beat a 2008 record set in Croatia after building a 76cm tall stack of 60 pancakes at the Pancake Parlour in Melbourne.

The leaning tower of pancakes eventually toppled over, but only after the record was confirmed by Guinness officials.

The chef flips over 100,000 pancakes every year at the popular restaurant where he has been working for over 25 years.

Mr Wrobel said: "We tried last year and we got to 61 centimetres and did pretty well. We thought we'd give it another go and this year we actually did it.

"We had a lot of practices, spent about 50 hours, probably used another quarter of a ton of buckwheat mix, and we finally got to the point where we needed to go."