“Six Pack Chef” breaks nine records with must-see speed-slicing skills

Guinness World Records title holder Wallace Wong aka the “Six Pack Chef” has astonishingly added nine more records to his name.

The 33-year-old TikTok star and former competitive bodybuilder, who has a wealth of experience as a chef at Michelin-starred restaurants, is well known for his knife skills.

His new records involve speedily slicing fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, celery, bell peppers, garlic and chilies (scroll to the end to see the full list of records).

Four of the nine records were attempted blindfolded, but Wallace’s lack of sight hardly slowed him down – in fact, he managed to chop more garlic and celery while wearing a blindfold than he did without it.

“I take away a sense and everything heightens,” Wallace explained.

He highlighted the blindfolded bell pepper and tomato record attempts as the hardest, saying: “When you cut the tops or the bottoms, or even the middle, you can’t control how they fly … because of that, it makes it extra hard to then make sure you don’t get disqualified on some of those cuts.”

Wallace had to meet strict requirements to earn each record. For example, when slicing the bell pepper, a minimum of 20 strips must be cut and they must all be similarly sized.

To avoid food wastage, Wallace cooked up a meal with all the ingredients he chopped.

He chose to make a “world record vegetable noodle dish”, creating the noodles using cucumbers and carrots, as well as a broth from roasted bell peppers and tomatoes.

He also made pickled celery, fried garlic, chilli garlic oil and “cucumber confetti” (finely chopped cucumber peel) to mix into the dish.

Wallace wasn’t always such a healthy eater – in fact, he was clinically obese at just six years old.

His parents sought help from various professionals, but it wasn’t until Wallace was 13 that he made a conscious effort to start losing weight, hoping to make his school’s basketball team and find a girlfriend.

Another experience that made Wallace the man he is today was his battle with cancer (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his eye) aged 17.

Fortunately, his treatment – involving spinal cord chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant – was successful, and Wallace has now been in remission for 17 years.

“When you’ve experienced the thought and feeling of not having a tomorrow, you change your whole mindset,” Wallace said when we spoke to him last year after he broke his first record.

“You’re a little more patient, you also look at things in a different perspective. It’s always glass half full, not glass half empty.”

Wallace representing Canada in a bodybuilding competition

With 1.8 million TikTok followers and numerous TV appearances under his belt (such as Fridge Wars, Top Chef Canada and Chopped Canada), Wallace is settling into his status as a celebrity chef.

He said: “I think it’s pretty cool. For me to now sort of be seen as a celebrity chef is very, very humbling. To add on Guinness World Records [title] holder, just adds to the résumé.”

Wallace Wong’s world records

• Most tomatoes cut in one minute: 14
• Most tomatoes cut in one minute while blindfolded: 9
• Most slices of celery sliced in 30 seconds: 128
• Most slices of celery sliced while blindfolded in 30 seconds: 125
• Fastest time to slice a bell pepper: 9.43
• Fastest time to slice a bell pepper blindfolded: 10.78 
• Most slices of garlic sliced in 30 seconds: 117
• Most slices of garlic sliced while blindfolded in 30 seconds: 127
• Most chilies chopped in 30 seconds: 13 
• Most slices of carrots sliced while blindfolded in 30 seconds: 121 (set in 2023)
• Most slices of cucumbers sliced while blindfolded in 30 seconds: 166 (set in 2023)