AfriqueCAN
HILDA Baci has spoken about a tense moment during her Guinness World Record feat for cooking the largest pot of jollof rice.
Hilda, a chef and restaurateur, in a video interview on X on Tuesday, described the moment the giant custom-made pot unexpectedly collapsed.
The restaurateur confessed that the incident shook her confidence.
“When we had the mishap with the pot, my first few seconds, my heart was in my hands. I was very scared, very worried,” she said.
“For me, the record was not the most important thing. It was important that people got to taste and enjoy the food we had spent hours making.
“I would say it was a good thing that the pot caved because it made food distribution a lot easier… it was a blessing in disguise,” she explained.
It would be recalled that on September 12 at the World Jollof Festival in Lagos, Hilda and her team cooked nearly 8,780 kilograms (about 19,356 pounds) of jollof rice in a six-metre-wide pot designed to hold 23,000 litres.