Hilda Bassey Effiong, on Monday joined the long lists of young Nigerian in the Guiness book of record as after she broke the world record as the first human on earth to spend 96 hour, using extra 9 hours on cooking marathon.
Below are 10 things to know about Hilda Baci and her Guinness World Record Marathon Cooking:
1 — Her real name is Hilda Bassey Effiong. She is a young Nigerian chef from NSIT UBIUM LGA in Akwa Ibom State, She owns a food brand in Lagos called ‘My Food by Hilda’.
2— She is 27 years of age
3-Hilda’s mum is also a chef. She owes a food brand called “Calabar Pot”
4 — She was not allowed to take coffee, stimulants, or any energy drink to artificially boost her energy and bodily strength while cooking. But she was allowed to eat food, drink water or fruit juice, and take glucose.
5— She cooks round the clock, no sleep (Morning, afternoon, evening, and night. So, for 4 nights, she never slept
6— 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 got a 30-minute break every 6 hours, she spent 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.
7— Whatever she cooked was shared with the people at the venue for FREE. She did not sell the food.
8 — She cooked different meals simultaneously. She was at liberty to cook any meal she likes. There was 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.
9 — Every meal cooked and every plate served is recorded. She cooked over 115 meals with almost 3,000 portions
10 — To break the record, Hilda Baci cooked 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.
