Students from Dawlish College are hoping their culinary skills will have helped them to smash a cookery world record this week.

Seventeen budding chefs volunteered to take part in the world’s biggest cookery lesson on Tuesday (July 1).

The online lesson, run by Jamie Oliver’s Cookery School, saw thousands of participants from schools, workplaces and community centres across the UK, attend a cooking lesson via Zoom.

During the hour-long lesson, everyone taking part created a delicious pasta and tasty non-cook tomato sauce dish completely from scratch.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver also made a special appearance.

‘This was an amazing opportunity for both Year 9 and 10 students to develop their culinary skills further. We are very proud of them for what they have achieved,’ a spokesperson from the school said.

‘Tight rules set by the Guinness World Records applied throughout the lesson but lots of fun was had by all, with 10 minutes of chaos at the end to get students’ dishes out on time,’ added the Dawlish College spokesperson.

Participants, who will all receive a certificate and thank-you note, are now waiting for Guinness World Records to confirm if the attempt was successful.

The record before this attempt was set on November 6 2015 when 6,778 people from 89 schools took part in a cookery lesson run by the Partnership for Health in Poland.

Jamie Oliver is no stranger to breaking world records. In 2013 he set a new world record for chopping raw chillis when he sliced ten in 30 seconds.

Through his Ministry of Food, Jamie Oliver has pledged to teach one million people to cook by 2030 so more people can enjoy the benefits of cooking and eating nutritious, sustainable and balanced meals.