How Hilda Baci Made History Cooking Jollof Rice With Largest Pot In 9 Hours

Award-winning chef, Hilda Baci made a historical feat by cooking Asun Jollof atom wrong 9 hours connected Friday, September 12, 2025, to the admiration of much than 20 1000 fans and well-wishers astatine the Guinness World Records Gino Jollof Rice Festival, held connected the grounds of Eko Hotel and Suites successful Lagos.

The delectable young chef, who made past successful the 2023 Cook-A-Thon, declared aft the cooking contention that it took her astir 9 hours to execute this expedition, with cheers from celebs similar Funke Akindele, influencers Enioluwa and Tomike Adeoye, and different dignitaries.

Speaking further connected the process, Hilda, who received maximum enactment from her household and a large team, including her parent who kept cheering and praying for her amidst the frenzy and party-like assemblage , said it took 2 months to marque the biggest cookware for the planetary challenge, arsenic it had to walk the trial of time.

She added that she utilized 200 bags of atom to the cooking arsenic against the archetypal program to utilise 250 bags of atom arsenic earlier announced.

“I was inspired to marque the largest cooking and chose jollof atom arsenic it’s our nutrient successful Nigeria. I utilized 168 kgs of goat nutrient for the cooking arsenic I had to region the bones of the nutrient and this reduced the kilograms. I decided to marque Asun Jollof atom for this.

“I utilized 1200kg of herb paste which is 500 cartons of Gino herb paste, 600kg of onions, 6000 litres of water, 700kgs of lipid and different seasonings to marque it the nutrient special.

“All the products utilized successful the Jollof Rice cooking are locally made. We bought everything successful this state including the cooking cookware which was made present and it took america 2 months to decorativeness making the biggest cookware and we had to trial it to guarantee the durability,” she said successful an interrogation successful pidgin.

The feat of cooking with the largest pot, began connected Friday and was completed astatine nighttime successful the beingness of officials of the Guinness World Records for appraisal and would marque an announcement aft ensuring that the personage cook followed the guidelines.