Celebrity chef Hilda Baci has been confirmed as a three-time Guinness World Records (GWR) holder following official communication from the organisation, which recognised an additional record from her September 2025 jollof rice attempt.
In an email dated January 16, Guinness World Records informed Baci that her team’s achievement during the attempt for the “largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice” also qualified for another existing record category.
The email, signed by Andrew Fanning, head of client partnering at Guinness World Records’ Records Creative Team, stated that after reviewing the record guidelines, Baci and her team met the criteria for both the “largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice” and the “largest serving of rice.”
As a result, Guinness World Records said it had proactively awarded her the additional title of “largest serving of rice.”
The confirmation means that the September 2025 attempt accounts for two separate Guinness World Records titles, bringing Baci’s total number of records to three.
Guinness World Records explained that the quantity of rice prepared during the attempt satisfied the requirements for both categories, leading to the formal recognition of the second title.
Baci shared the email on her Instagram page, stating that she was unaware that the jollof rice attempt had also qualified her for the “largest serving of rice” record until she received the message.
“I woke up a three-time Guinness World Records holder, and I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. What a way to step into 2026. This morning, I was doing my usual routine, casually scrolling through my emails, when I saw the message come in.
She said the confirmation came about five months after Guinness World Records publicly announced the jollof rice record.
“I was shocked and happy at the same time, completely caught off guard. Five months after the initial record announcement, I was just finding out that there was more. When I and Gino Nigeria broke the Guinness World Record for the largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice, I thought that was it.”
According to her, she believed the achievement ended with the recognition of the Nigerian-style jollof rice category until she received the email informing her of the additional title.
“What I didn’t know, until now, is that on that same day, we had also broken the record for the largest serving of rice overall. So what I thought was one record… turned out to be two. And now, officially, that makes three Guinness World Records in total, she said.”
The September 2025 record attempt took place during a nine-hour open-air cooking session at Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The event was supported by Gino Nigeria and Baci led a team that prepared 200 portions using 20-kilogram bags of rice.
Guinness World Records had earlier confirmed the attempt as the “largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice.”
With the latest confirmation, the same attempt has now been recognised under two categories: one specific to Nigerian-style jollof rice and another covering rice dishes generally.
Baci first gained international recognition in May 2023 after completing a cooking marathon that earned her a Guinness World Record for the longest individual cooking marathon at the time.
During the challenge, she cooked for more than four days, surpassing the previous record of 87 hours and 45 minutes set in 2019 by Indian chef Lata Tondon.
Guinness World Records later stated that a procedural error affected the final recorded time.
Her record was later surpassed by Irish chef Alan Fisher, who cooked continuously for 119 hours and 57 minutes.
With the confirmation of the additional record from her September 2025 attempt, Hilda Baci now holds three Guinness World Records titles.
