11:24am UK, Tuesday October 25, 2005

A restaurant owner in the western Greek port of Patras is trying to grill his way into the Guinness Book of Records.

Costas Dasios is attempting to cook up the world's largest kebab.

180-Greece world largest kebab

The world's largest kebab?

He has made a pork kebab weighing around 1,850kgs on a 1.73-metre steel skewer, according to the Kathimerini newspaper.

Around 150kgs of spices and 100kgs of salt have been used to add taste to the kebab, which is known as 'gyros' in Greece.

A two-ton natural gas tank is being used to cook the kebab.

Mr Dasios said: "The city's poor will be the first to get a taste."

The current world record is currently held by a restaurateur from Cyprus named Sami Eid.

The kebab he made in Limassol, Cyprus in June 2001 weighed 1,503.66kgs and 1.51-metres tall.