Nigerian chef, Temitope Adebayo, also known as Tope Maggie, who hails from Ogbomoso, Oyo State has smashed the Guinness World Record for the longest cooking marathon by an individual.
With his record-breaking attempt, Chef Maggie has surpassed Irish chef, Alan Fisher’s 119-hour and 57-minute record.
He concluded a 200-hour cook-a-thon in the early hours of Saturday, November 18.
This was announced in a video posted on the Oyo Affairs X page.
The video was captioned: ‘Congratulations to Chef Tope Maggie and his team for completing a 200-hour Cook-A-Thon, which came to an end at exactly 3 am this morning.’
According to report, he began the cook-a-tho on Thursday evening and ended on Saturday morning.
It took place at the Ogbomoso Recreation Club in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, across LAUTECH College of Health Sciences in Isale-General.
Tope is awaiting confirmation of his record by the GWR as congratulations and celebration continue over his feat.
Meanwhile, the Oyo state government has congratulated him on the feat.
“We join the good people of Ogbomoso and, indeed, Oyo State to congratulate Tope Magie on completing his 200-hour Cookathon. He started cooking on Thursday, 9 November 2023, at 6:31 p.m. and ended earlier today, Saturday, 18 November 2023 at 2.31 a.m. We look forward to the final verification and award of the new world record by the Guinness World Records team,” the government wrote on it’s Facebook page.
