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.
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grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 59 pts · 332d
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.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 42 pts · 332d
gex@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 332d
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
Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 332d
Thank you! God forbid the article should have video of the thing described in the headline lol
victorz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 332d
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.
Fondots@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 332d
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.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 6 pts · 332d
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.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 331d
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.
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 4 pts · 331d
I guess they couldn't get it suspended long enough to get a measurement from the crane itself?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 332d
That pot looked flimsy to start with. Was the side just sheet metal?
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 331d
thanks. what a weird headline for such an already weird event
grue@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 332d
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?
Brokkr@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 332d
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.
cfi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 332d
Hey, he's a tribal chief and he's creating jobs. That's more than I can say for my elected officials!
victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 332d
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. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 331d
Even if you only had incompetent people involved, and involved twice as many incompetent people as necessary in every step, I still don't see how you get over 150 people
did they forge the metal from ore they mined? lol
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 331d
Given that its a rich Nigerian supported by a large company, its quite possible numbers were inflated, either by those trying to break the record to make it more impressive, or by the people contracted to make the dish who might inflate numbers so that they can be paid better (esspecially given the immense wealth inequality in Nigeria). From what I've been told, that sort of fraud is very common.
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 331d
Stamau123@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 332d
Well that's the way the cookie crumbles, or how the jollof breaks
cmhe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 332d
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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 331d
cmhe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 331d
I did read that. And how much of it was distributed, it doesn't say.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 331d
at least the rice did not go to waste
Presently42@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 332d
Jollof rice is one of the tastiest dishes I've ever encountered. Extremely highly recommended!