Guinness World Records (GWR) has formally acknowledged the efforts made by a Nigerian chef to break the record for continuous cooking.
Following four days of cooking last month, Hilda Baci became a household name.
She was given the equivalent of a five-minute break every hour while she cooked for 100 hours.
However, GWR has recorded her time as 93 hours and 11 minutes, deducting seven hours for one instance when she took a longer break than was permitted.
Even so, she outperformed the previous record by more than five hours, which was set in 2019 by Lata Tondon, an Indian chef, in Rewa, central India.
From the time she turned on her cooker at 15:00 GMT on Thursday, May 11, 27-year-old chef Baci used more than 100 different dishes. On the Monday after, she gave up cooking.
GWR representatives were not present at the event in Lagos' upscale Lekki neighborhood, but they later watched the CCTV footage.
In her world-record-breaking endeavor, Baci prepared a majority of Nigerian dishes, including jollof rice, as well as various kinds of rice and pasta and akara, a well-known street food made from deep-fried mashed beans. The invited visitors received the food.
GWR regulations stated that she could only have one assistant at a time and that she could only use the bathroom or take a nap when she took a break.
After her lengthy cooking session, she discussed her inspiration, saying, "I just knew that I need to do something that is... out of the ordinary to put myself on the map, to put Nigeria on the map, to put young African women on the map. ".
During her breaks, Baci received foot massages and ice packs for her head because she was clearly exhausted from the physical activity. Additionally, a medical assistant examined her vital signs.
Politicians and celebrities visited to support her because her attempt captivated the nation.
In fact, Hilda's cook-a-thon received such high traffic that it caused our website to go down for two days, according to GWR.
Baci was accustomed to the ferocity of competitive kitchen competitions. She won the inaugural "Jollof Faceoff" in 2021 after defeating other competitors, including a Ghanaian foe in the championship round, to take home the prize for the best rendition of the hot and spicy rice dish popular in West Africa.
She claimed that her mother's culinary skills served as inspiration for her love of cooking and that all of her dishes were home-made.
