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Pot breaks as Nigerian chef attempts to cook largest jollof rice dish (www.bbc.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 20:39
https://lemmy.world/post/35924669

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 on 14 Sep 21:10 next collapse

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 on 14 Sep 21:11 next collapse

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.

Stamau123@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 23:52 next collapse

Well that’s the way the cookie crumbles, or how the jollof breaks

grue@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 00:47 next collapse

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?

cfi@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 00:58 next collapse

Hey, he’s a tribal chief and he’s creating jobs. That’s more than I can say for my elected officials!

Brokkr@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 01:49 next collapse

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.

victorz@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 06:12 next collapse

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 on 15 Sep 23:47 next collapse

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 on 16 Sep 04:27 collapse

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.

gex@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 03:29 next collapse

Here’s the Livestream, the pot bends as they try to lift it up, it never leaves the floor

youtu.be/HJIs0B8uAmo?t=2860

Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 03:49 next collapse

Thank you! God forbid the article should have video of the thing described in the headline lol

VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 05:30 next collapse

That pot looked flimsy to start with. Was the side just sheet metal?

victorz@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 06:11 next collapse

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 on 15 Sep 07:35 next collapse

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 on 15 Sep 07:49 collapse

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 on 15 Sep 17:32 collapse

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 on 15 Sep 19:42 next collapse

I guess they couldn’t get it suspended long enough to get a measurement from the crane itself?

TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Sep 04:57 collapse

thanks. what a weird headline for such an already weird event

Presently42@lemmy.ca on 15 Sep 05:17 next collapse

Jollof rice is one of the tastiest dishes I’ve ever encountered. Extremely highly recommended!

cmhe@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 08:40 next collapse

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 on 15 Sep 16:14 collapse

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.

cmhe@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 18:01 collapse

I did read that. And how much of it was distributed, it doesn’t say.

Jhex@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:57 next collapse

at least the rice did not go to waste

JTskulk@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 23:29 collapse