- VP Osinbajo hails chef Hilda Baci
After emerging as winner in the 2021 Jollof Faceoff Competition, she became the Nigerian Jollof Rice Queen.
Today with 100 hours of cooking time under her belt, Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci is set to become the first person on planet Earth that has ever cooked for that length of time in a stretch!
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo reacting via his Twitter handle, Osinbajo described her feat as an extraordinary achievement.
He wrote, “Hilda, 100 hours! Wow 🤩
“Congratulations on breaking the Guinness World Record for the “longest cooking marathon by an individual”. What an extraordinary achievement! We are all immensely proud of you.”
Although Hilda had initially set 96 hours for herself to beat the current record holder, Chef Lata Tondon who is at 87 hours and 45 minutes in India in 2019, she extended it by 4 hours to hit a hundred cooking hours.
At the Amore Gardens, Lekki, where the cook-a-thon took place, the chef flew past both the world record and the 96 hours she initially set for herself at about past 8 pm Monday evening to achieve the world record, cooking for 100 hours.
The actress and TV producer who cooked over 200 recipes and fed over a thousand people did well to showcase her culinary skills using various local and intercontinental recipes to put Nigeria on the global culinary map.
Over the last four days, which started on the 11th to the 15th of May, the 27-year-old made delicacies from Nigerian cuisines.
The attempt also saw Hilda take an hour break in-between every 12 hours of cooking.
The four-day cooking marathon, which began on Thursday at 4 p.m., featured celebrity visitations from Tiwa Savage, Banky and Adesua Wellington, Teni the entertainer, Spyro, Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, networking, games, and brand activations.
Hilda who has shown her culinary skills on various Television Cook shows, represented Nigeria at the Jollof Faceoff Competition in 2021 and emerged as the winner.
The Lagos-based chef began the competition on Thursday after she turned on her cooker at 4 pm and surpassed the current world record holder on Monday morning.
If certified after the 100th hour, she will be displacing the current world record holder, Lata Tondon, an Indian chef who achieved the feat in 2019 with 87 hours 45 minutes record uninterrupted cooking.
