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.
Here’s the Livestream, the pot bends as they try to lift it up, it never leaves the floor
https://youtu.be/HJIs0B8uAmo?t=2860
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?