20 Things To Know About Hilda Baci And Her Guinness World Record Marathon Cooking
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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 be 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, and 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 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].
Other sources claim
She gets a 30-minute break every 6 hours, she spends the 30mins 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 time frame, not about
what is cooked. As long as she is cooking, she is on track.
11. Every meal cooked and every plate served is recorded. She has cooked
over 115 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 247, 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.
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