After a marathon of 93 hours and 11 minutes without a break, standing and making regional cuisines, a Nigerian chef has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest solo cooking session, the organisation said on Tuesday.
To be able to stand for the four days required to break the record last month, Hilda Baci, 26, had trained at the gym.
She stated that her accomplishment, which took place between May 11 and 15, was intended to “put Nigerian food on the map.”
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“After a thorough examination of all the evidence, Guinness World Records can now confirm that… Hilda Baci has officially broken the record for the longest (individual) cooking marathon,” Guinness World Records said in a statement.
According to Guinness, she beat the previous record of 87 hours and 45 minutes, held by an Indian chef in 2019.
Several high-ranking personalities, including the governor of Lagos State, the country’s vice-president at the time and Nigerian Afrobeats music star Tiwa Savage, visited her during her culinary marathon.
“I want Nigerian recipes to be spread around the world. I want it to be a normal thing to make Egusi soup in an American home,” she told a press conference in the wake of her feat, referring to one of Nigeria’s iconic dishes.
“I want you to be able to walk into any random supermarket and find Nigerian ingredients,” she said.
