The giant pot in which Nigerian chef and former Guinness World Record holder Hilda Baci attempted to make the world’s largest dish of jollof rice has broken as it was being hoisted on a crane to be weighed.
Thousands of people gathered in Lagos to watch the latest world record bid from the well-known food influencer, who in 2023 held the title for the longest cooking marathon.
Her recipe for jollof, a popular West African dish, included 4,000kg (8,800lb) of rice, 500 cartons of tomato paste and 600kg of onions - all poured into a custom-made pot that can hold 23,000 litres.
Because you can’t cook with a scale and because they didn’t have a scale big enough to put the pot on it. You can see the scale attached to the crane. They wanted to weight it by lifting it.
Oh, I get it, duh. Makes sense. Shame 😐 I guess they should just say okay to measuring the ingredients separately that are added in? And perhaps do a little napkin math to account for evaporation or whatever.