The ball is now in the court of the Guinness Book of Records sages as Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, completed the challenge of cooking for 100 hours.
She has thus surpassed the 96-hour target and holds the record time crest.
The Guinness Book of Records has acknowledged her effort but said it needed to verify.
Many of her fans at the cook-a-thon competition, taking place at the Amore Gardens, Lekki, are at the moment sharing videos of themselves cheering the young chef as well as celebrating her for achieving the milestone.
Hilda was initially scheduled to stop at 4 pm today culminating in her former 96-hour target surpassing the current Guinness World Record holder for the “longest cooking marathon by an individual”.
The Lagos-based chef began the competition on Thursday after she turned on her cooker at 4 pm and surpassed the current world record holder on Monday morning.
If certified after the 100th hour, she will be displacing the current world record holder, Lata Tondon, an Indian chef who achieved the feat in 2019 with 87 hours 45 minutes record uninterrupted cooking.
