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.
at least the rice did not go to waste
In every article on records about of food preparation, they never say how much of it is eaten and how much of it is thrown away.
I would necessitate that all or a large percentage of it needs to be eaten for the record to count.
Afterwards the giant dish of jollof rice, which also included 168kg of goat meat, was divided into individual portions and distributed to the huge crowds.
I did read that. And how much of it was distributed, it doesn’t say.
Here’s the Livestream, the pot bends as they try to lift it up, it never leaves the floor
Thank you! God forbid the article should have video of the thing described in the headline lol
Wonder why they didn’t just set the pot on a scale while it was empty though. Then add ingredients after. Or just fucking weigh the ingredients as they go in, idfk.
I think I see a bit of steam escaping from the pan, so I think they tried to weigh it after cooking
Which makes sense, there’s going to be some weight change after you cook it because of evaporation and such… hence the steam
Before cooking you couldn’t really call it Jollof Rice, it would just be a big pot of the raw ingredients for Jollof Rice
And they know the weight of the ingredients going in already, they’re quoted in the article, so that’s just simple addition to figure out.
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.
That pot looked flimsy to start with. Was the side just sheet metal?
Food didn’t actually spill and video doesn’t even show anything breaking. Bah! I’m happy it worked out, but I was kind of hoping to see a tragedy within the bounds of human comprehension for once.
The event was trending on social media and videos show that as the huge red pan was being lifted, one side buckled and the supporting legs gave way, however the food did not spill.
Manufacturing the giant steel vessel to hold her dish took a team of 300 people two months to make
WTF? That pot is not complicated enough to require that much labor, especially when they still managed to fuck it up. In a country of 250+ million people, surely it shouldn’t have been that hard to find a competent engineer and metalworker to help them with it, right?
It usually means that 300 people were involved in the project at different stages of its lifetime. It probably also includes the people involved in sourcing the material, tools, people, workspace, etc. That’s probably 20 people who likely never touched the final product. There likely was also some marketing and business people involved. They did probably put hands on the final product for a photo op.
Hey, he’s a tribal chief and he’s creating jobs. That’s more than I can say for my elected officials!
Not everyone knows every person that’s eligible for every job. Maybe they didn’t have capable people at hand, or knew how to get in touch with them. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Well that’s the way the cookie crumbles, or how the jollof breaks
Jollof rice is one of the tastiest dishes I’ve ever encountered. Extremely highly recommended!
