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What To Know About Hilda Baci: The Lagos-Based Chef Poised To Set New Guinness World Record For Marathon Cooking
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Hilda Baci is no stranger to public cooking appearances.
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She has shown her culinary skills on various Television Cook shows and represented Nigeria at the Jollof Faceoff Competition in 2021, emerging as the winner.
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The Lagos-based chef is attempting to break a cook-a-thon record set in 2019.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Hilda Baci, a chef based in Lagos State, has spent more than 85 hours in her bid to set a new Guinness World Record for Marathon cooking.
That means she has about 10 hours to go to reach her target.
EDITOR’S PICKS
The four-day cooking marathon, which began on Thursday at 4 p.m., features celebrity visitations, networking, games and brand activations.
Hilda Baci, Lagos-based chef targeting a Guinness World Record for Marathon Cooking
Here are 20 basic facts you should know about Baci’s bid to break the existing Guinness World Record for Marathon Cooking and set a new one:
1. Her real name is Hilda Bassey Effiong. She is a young Nigerian chef from Akwa Ibom State. She owns a food brand in Lagos called “My Food by Hilda”
2. She will cooking for 4 days non-stop.
3. She must stand to cook, she is not permitted to sit while cooking.
4. She’s not allowed to take coffee, stimulants, or any energy drink to artificially boost her energy and bodily strength while cooking
5. She’s allowed to eat food, drink water or fruit juice, & take glucose
6. The cooking is taking place at Amore Gardens, Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria.
7. She cooks round the clock, no sleep (Morning, afternoon, evening, and night. So, for 4 nights, she won’t sleep)
8. She takes an hour break in-between every 12 hours of cooking. She spends her break in a medical van which is just close by, within which she can nap, use the restroom, and also get a medical assessment or checkup by the medical team available on the spot.
9. Whatever she cooks is shared to the people at the venue for FREE. She is not selling the food.
10. She cooks different meals simultaneously. She is at liberty to cook any meal she likes. There are no restrictions as to what she can cook or not cook.
The World Record title is about cooking within a timeframe, not about what is cooked. As long as she is cooking, she is on track.
Hilda Baci, Lagos-based chef targeting a Guinness World Record for Marathon Cooking
11. Every meal cooked and every plate served is recorded.
She has cooked over 150 meals so far with almost 3,000 portions if not more by the time you are reading this.
12. She started the cooking on Thursday and is expected to complete the target time frame by Monday 15th May, 2023 evening.
13. The current holder of the title Hilda seeks to break is an Indian chef Lata Tandon, who set a Guinness World Record for cooking for 87 hours and 45 minutes non-stop in 2019.
14. To break the record, Hilda Baci is attempting to cook for 96 hours, using extra 9 hours to break the world record as the first human on earth to spend such an amount of time cooking a marathon.
15. She tagged the cooking project “Cook-a-thon”, a phrase literally coined from the word “marathon”.
16. She appears exhausted already, but the people around her are cheering her on to boost her morale. And they are available with her as she cook 24/7, even at night.
17. Most of the food items, ingredients, utensils, etc she used for this project are provided by her sponsors. So, the money expended on this project is not 100% from Hilda or her Food brand.
18. Uber, one of her partners, is offering a 40% discounted ride to the venue for people who wishes to join and cheer her up at the venue.
19. Hilda’s mum is also a chef. She owns a food brand called “Calabar Pot”
20. She is 27 years of age.
FURTHER READING
Baci is very close to achieving her aim of breaking and setting a new World Record for a cook-a-thon.
Editor’s Note: The 20 facts were sourced from Oga Yenne, a social media influencer.
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