Tope Adebayo, popularly known as Tope Maggie on Friday. set a new record for the longest cooking marathon as he broke the 200-hour Cooking Challenge mark.
His record which comes barely two weeks after Irish man Alan Fisher dethroned Nigeria’s Hilda Baci as the new Guinness World Cook-a-thon record holder, is yet to be verified by the GWR organisers.
Tope commenced his quest for the longest cooking marathon on Nov 9, 2023.
In June, prior to the cook-a-thon kick-off, Tope Maggie announced that his application to break this cooking record had been approved, revealing his initial plan to cook for 140 hours and 20minutes.
However, With Alan Fisher breaking Hilda Baci’s record, Tope Maggie decided to surpass the feat.