It is now official. Hilda Baci holds the record for the Guinness World record for longest cooking marathon (individual), with a time of 93 hours 11 minutes.
This was confirmed in a statement published on the Guinness World records website today. According to the body, “following a thorough review of all the evidence, Guinness World Records can now confirm that Hilda Effiong Bassey, better known as Hilda Baci, has officially broken the record for the longest cooking marathon (individual), with a time of 93 hours 11 minutes.”
The body stated that even though Hilda attempted to set a record of 100 hours, almost seven hours were deducted from her final total because she mistakenly took extra minutes for one of her rest breaks early on in the attempt.
Hilda Baci began on Thursday 11 May and continued through to Monday 15 May, cooking over 100 pots of food during her four-day kitchen stint. The attempt took the social media world by storm and was so popular that the Guinness World records website “crashed for two days due to the immense volume of traffic we received from her legion of loyal fans.”
The previous record of 87 hours 45 minutes was set by Lata Tondon (India) in 2019.
