Guinness World Records: Hilda Baci's non-stop cooking record confirmed
The efforts by a Nigerian chef to break the record for cooking non-stop have been officially recognised by Guinness World Records (GWR). Hilda Baci became a national sensation after cooking for four days last month. She cooked for 100 hours - and was allowed a five-minute break each hour or the equivalent over several hours. However GWR has logged her record at 93 hours 11 minutes, docking her seven hours for taking a longer break than allowed on one occasion. She still beat the previous record by more than five hours set in Rewa, in central India in 2019 by Indian chef Lata Tondon. Chef Baci, 27, used more than 100 different dishes from when she turned on her cooker at 15:00 GMT on Thursday 11 May. She stopped cooking on the following Monday. No GWR officials were at the event in the upmarket area of Lekki in Lagos, but they later reviewed the footage that had been recorded from CCTV cameras. In her record-breaking effort Baci cooked mostly Nigerian meals, such as jollof rice, a...