Renowned chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey aka Hilda Baci, has revealed she wasn’t in the least perturbed with the cooking attempt made by ‘chef’ Dammy subsequently after her cook-a-thon.
Damilola Adeparusi aka ‘chef’ Dammy made headlines in June after she set out on a mission to achieve the longest cooking category with a 120-hour target in an attempt to break Hilda Baci’s unofficial 100-hour record at the time.
While many Nigerians like Reno Omokri, condemned Dammy’s effort to surpass Hilda’s uncertified attempt, tagging her disastrous, others like Kiddwaya’s mom, Susan Waya, argued the FUOYE student deserved all the support for her mission.
Addressing Dammy’s cooking exercise in an interview on Cool FM’s ‘The Big Friday Show,’ hosted by reality TV star Tacha, the 26-year-old current holder of the Guinness World Record for marathon cooking with 93 hours 11 minutes said:
“At the time she was attempting the record, we were still trying to submit evidence so in truth, the major focus was what was happening on social media.”
She said,
“A few days before, we had received a mail from Guinness requesting evidence, and my focus then was gathering the evidence and submitting it to Guinness World Records.
“I wasn’t thinking too much about Dammy. Social media brought it to my consciousness.”