Hilda Baci opens up on funds spent during Cook-A-Thon, says ‘it costs a lot of money’

Nigerian chef, Hilda Baci has disclosed she spent huge sum of money to execute the Cook-A-Thon project where she made attempt to break Guinness Book of Records’ longest cooking time.

A couple of days ago, Hilda Baci became a national sensation when she cooked for 100 hours. She disclosed that it took approximately five months on the actual execution of the event and spent a lot of money organizing it.

In a Channels Television interview monitored by News Round The Clock on Tuesday, May, the chef spoke about the duration it took for the project to be properly executed.

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She said it took her over five years to conceptualize the event and a year and five months to decide if it would occur.

“I have been overwhelmed with love in a very good way, I did not expect it to be this massive, but I am very grateful.

“It took us about six months to plan the actual event up to execution; it took a year and five months from when I decided this would happen, and the idea came to me five years ago,” she said.

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Reacting to a question on the cost of organizing the event, she said: “Especially at that scale and size, it costs a lot of money; I cannot specifically give the figure”.

Hilda cooked over 100 meals in a 100-hour stint breaking the record of Indian chef Lata Tondon who had cooked for 87 hours, 45 minutes, and 00 secs in 2019.