Forty-year-old festival sees chefs use power tools to mix the eggs before a fork lift hoists the enormous frying pan into place
Using 8,400 eggs, 25kg of venison sausage and 14 bottles of salt and pepper, New Caledonia’s giant omelette festival aims to bring people together in a region that is often divided.
The chefs line up in their white uniforms, to be greeted by Kanak traditional owners to the park. All wear mini gold frying pans which denote them as ‘Knights of the Giant Omelette’.Eggs are unloaded by the hundreds.Chenot says the giant omelette festival has got “bigger and bigger” over its 40-year-history.
The omelette-making ceremony, which traditionally takes place on the first weekend after Easter, kicks off with a parade around the park, led by a marching band. The chefs carry planks loaded with bread, baskets of eggs, and proudly display the mini gold frying pans attached to their lapels which denote them as “Knights of the Giant Omelette”.
Once the eggs reach the pots they are churned with power tools, usually reserved for mixing concrete; they are the only tools up to the task. Once the mixture is churned, the chefs add 14 bottles of salt and pepper. One of those present is local Kanak man Martin Hyaleyap. He says the festival gives him hope for the future.
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