Oy vey! This is a matzo ball to make you kvell.
Weighing 267 pounds and measuring 29.2 inches in diameter, the biggest matzo ball in the world was unveiled Thursday and served up to hungry lower East Siders.
The giant kosher creation was schlepped across the city with a police escort after spending 19.5 hours on a slow boil in a custom-made 100-gallon New Jersey kettle.
It was created to raise awareness and money for a charity basketball game at Madison Square Garden between the New York Knicks and Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv.
Profits from the Oct. 18 game will benefit the Migdal Ohr, an orphanage in northern Israel.
“What’s better than this in New York City?” said Noam Sokolow, owner of Noah’s Ark Original Deli on Grand St., who helped organize the event.
“Big Apple, big matzo ball, big basketball game.”
The massive orb was lifted out of its kettle by two dozen workers with a special soup sling.
They heaved it into a large protective crate for the trip from Teaneck, N.J., to Manhattan in a 24-foot freight truck.
Five men unloaded the ball and walked it up a red carpet to the front of the deli, where it was unveiled in a giant bowl.
“Wow, really cool,” said 10-year-old Hillel Levinger, when he set eyes on the ball. “I was able to actually witness a world record.”
Chef Anthony Sylvestri said his creation was a “sinker” and was proud to put his name to it.
“It’s still whole, it came out great,” he said.
“It’s not like we do this every day.
“If someone was to beat this record, then I’ll beat it again,” he added.
A team of cooks cut the ball into pieces and took them to the Good Companions Senior Center on Madison St.
The center provides low-cost kosher lunches six days a week, along with health and wellness programs and recreation facilities.
“It’s very good, I love it,” said Fidelia Dorival, 79, as she tucked into her record-breaking lunch.
“I’m very proud.”
Seymour Kestenbaum, 91, was not so convinced.
“This is not like my mother’s matzo balls,” he kvetched.
“I love matzo balls, [but] they have to be like my mother’s.”
