Few things you need to know about Hilda Baci that’s trying to break Guinness World Record Marathon Cooking
1. Her real name is Hilda Effiong Bassey, and shes a multi-talented TV producer, actress, and foodpreneur, popularly known as Hilda Baci.
2. She is a Nigerian chef from Akwa Ibom State, She owns a food brand in Lagos called “My Food by Hilda”.
3. She is 27 years old.
4. Her mum is also a chef and owns a food brand called “Calabar Pot”.
ABOUT THE WORLD RECORD SHE’S TRYING TO BREAK.
The current holder of the title Hilda seeks to break is an Indian chef called Lata Tandon, who set a Guinness World Record for cooking for 87 hours and 45 minutes non-stop in 2019.
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.
She tagged the cooking project “Cook-a-thon”, a phrase literally coined from the word “marathon”
She will be cooking for 4 days non-stop.
She must stand to cook, she is not permitted to sit while cooking.
She’s not allowed to take coffee, stimulants, or any energy drink to artificially boost her energy and bodily strength while cooking.
She’s allowed to eat food, drink water or fruit juice, and take glucose.
The cooking is taking place at Amore Gardens, Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria.
She cooks round the clock, no sleep (Morning, afternoon, evening, and night. So, for 4 nights, she won’t sleep)
She has just 5 minutes rest per hour [meaning for every 1 hour, she is entitled to just 5 minutes rest or break, that’s an hour break in every 12 hours].
Whatever she cooks is shared to the people at the venue for FREE. She is not selling the food.
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 time frame, not about what is cooked. As long as she is cooking, she is on track.
Every meal cooked and every plate served is recorded.
She started the cooking on Thursday and is expected to complete the target time frame by Monday 15th May, 2023 evening.
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 247, even at night.
Most of the food items, ingredients, utensils, etc she used for this project are donated by her sponsors.
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.
