Today the stylist.co.uk team is putting its eating skills to the test in heroic fashion by taking part in the Guinness World Record attempt on the world's longest tasting menu.

We'll be joining a group of elite eaters in London's Soho as they make their way through 193 courses from around the world in 24 hours.

We don't yet know what we'll be eating (delicacies on offer include durian fruit, sea urchin caviar and fried giant crickets) but we'll be live blogging all the gory details from 2-6pm today, before leaving the diners to it as they take on the night shift.

Stay tuned on this page as we chomp our way through an average of eight courses an hour and bring you all the latest photos, recipes and inside tips from our fellow Guinness World Record challengers. Bring it on!

5-6pm

Courses 65-73

Sejal Kapadia says…

As I type this - the morning after my session - those brave eaters are making their way through their 112th meal. They've been up for 25 hours. When I arrived in their ninth hour for Stylist's last lap of the challenge, they had already reached the point of 'full' two hours ago. I wonder how they look now. Someone sprawled out across the wooden dining table, another being prodded with Sweet Fried Bread from the United Republic of Tanzania. The truth is, I bet they all look great and full of upbeat, somewhat delusional jokes. I think we'd all want to join them right now.

I became a part of the feast just after the durian fruit and received lots of apologies about the smell as I walked in. Call me crazy, but I wish I could smell it. I've always had the worst sense of smell and it's during global feasts like this that you want to be able to experience as much as you can. Saying that, in came Fried Giant Scorpions from Lesotho. The instructions say "remove the stinger and eat whole like nuts or olives". They make it sound so easy. In fact, the one lesson we've learned from this experience is that all insects and reptiles taste like crispy pork.

Stylist's world record taste challenge: live blog