# Yule log burning record

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 3, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yule-log-burning-record/719176 "2015-05-03T20:51:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yule-log-burning-record/719176/1 "2015-05-03T20:51:31Z")

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What is the longest a single Yule log (or any log for that matter) has been kept burning, and what is the largest log ever so used (possibly one and the same). My Google-fu failed me on this one because “yule log” can also refer to a type of cake, and most of the other references are to looped videos of burning logs.