Hilda Baci and Gino Nigeria cook 8,780 kilograms of Nigerian-style jollof rice for event at Victoria Island, Lagos, for September 2025. Guinness World Records confirm the achievement for report wey dem publish on 15 September. The record concern serving size, separate from Baci earlier endurance cooking.
Ingredients enter the giant pot for very large quantity. Guinness list 4,000 kilograms of washed basmati rice, 164 kilograms of fresh goat meat and 600 kilograms of Baci pepper mix among the inputs. Those weights describe preparation; dem no be extra finished food to add to certified total.
Baci say the cooking take nine hours and e credit teamwork. E also report say the food supply 16,600 plates. That plate number na im own account of distribution; the record measurement wey Guinness report na 8,780 kilograms for the finished serving.
To feed people join how dem organise the event. Guinness say rules require distribution without food waste. Thousands attend the Lagos gathering, wey also get performances. After cooking, dem serve the rice to the crowd; e no remain only something for people to look at.
Before this achievement, Baci do cooking marathon for Lagos for May 2023, wey dem certify at 93 hours and 11 minutes. The two projects test different abilities: continuous cooking for one, organising one very large batch for the other. Both need planning beyond public excitement.
Jollof belong to food cultures across West Africa, with different national and family styles. The 2025 record document the size of one Nigerian-style serving. E no settle which country recipe sweet pass; the concrete achievement na the measured food and the people wey eat am.