1. Her real name is Hilda Bassey Effiong. She is a young Nigerian chef from Akwa |bom 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 take a standing position while cooking and is not allowed to sit at anytime during 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. Hilda is allowed to eat food, drink water or fruit juice and take glucose while cooking.
6. The marathon cooking event is taking place at Amore Gardens, Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria.
7. She is to cook round the clock, with no sleep at all for four days and four nights, except for quick naps during her breaks.
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]. Which she is to take cumulatively, either 30mins after 6hours or 1hour after 12 hours.
9. Whatever she cooks is shared to the people at the venue for FREE. She is not to sell the foods cooked.
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.
So far, Hilda has cooked over 115 meals with almost 3,000 portions, maybe 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 at 4pm.
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.