Smaller than a grain of rice! Jaipur man bags Guinness Record for making world’ smallest spoon [WATCH]
A miniature artist from Jaipur city has earned the prestigious Guinness World Records (GWR) by creating the smallest wooden spoon in the globe. Interestingly, the wooden spoon is so tiny that it can be placed on a grain of rice. The spoon measures just 2 mm in height.
Navratan Prajapati Murtikar is the artist who made the smallest spoon and inked his name in the most prestigious record book in the world.
Guinness World Records took to Twitter to share the video. In the clip, Murtikar could be seen using different equipment to turn a wooden stick into the globe’s smallest spoon. Interestingly, Navratan, at one point in the video, uses the spoon to pick up tiny pieces of food.
“New record: Smallest wooden spoon - 2 mm (0.7 inches) made by Navratan Prajapati Murtikar (India),” GWR tweeted while sharing the video.
Watch here.
New record: Smallest wooden spoon - 2 mm (0.7 inches) made by Navratan Prajapati Murtikar (India) 🥄 pic.twitter.com/wrFltImEPf
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) January 19, 2023
Since being shared, the video has garnered more than 8,300 views and the numbers are only increasing.
As per Guinness World Records, the artist is a sculptor who works with marble statues. His dream is to create a museum of miniature craft for people.
"Guinness World Records is the Koh-i-Noor diamond in records, and after receiving it, I feel like wearing the most magnificent crown on my head," Murtikar told GWR.
First published: 21 January 2023, 17:25 IST