Various restaurants around the country offer food challenges. You can generally eat for free and perhaps get your picture on the "Wall of Fame" if you can devour an incredibly copious quantity of food in an amazingly short time.

Sayler's Old Country Kitchen in Portland, Oregon offers this type of challenge. If you can eat a 72 ounce steak dinner, which includes all the trimmings, you get the meal for free. There is a 60 minute time limit. Sayler's has been offering this challenge since 1948.

Here is the list of fixins (from Sayler's website): a salad, two pickles, two olives, two carrots and two celery sticks, a slice of bread, and a baked potato or ten french fries.

That bar was set entirely too low for 120 pound competitive eater Molly Schuyler. The mother of four from Bellevue, Nebraska took on Sayler's challenge, and she devoured the entire meal in under 3 minutes, shattering the existing world record for eating a 72 ounce steak.

Prior to Molly's arrival only 47 women attempted the challenge. Just eight of them finished the meal in less than 60 minutes. Less than half of the 1800+ men who have tied on the feedback at Sayler's have been able to do the deed in under an hour. This puts the sub-three minute feat into perspective.

Molly may be the top female competitive eater on the planet. All Pro Eating, an independent competitive eating governing body, ranks her at the top of the heap among female competitive eaters.

Eating that much food in under three minutes may seem like a lot of work, but Molly doesn't see it that way.

"It really wasn't any work at all. I was just going through the motions," she said in an interview with Today.com.

Check out the video to see a piece of competitive eating history.