Kenyan Chef wins Guinness World Record for longest cooking time

Maliha Mohammad.
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A Kenyan Chef, Maliha Mohammad, on Sunday, broke the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent cooking. She started cooking on Thursday, August 15 at 10am and completed it on Sunday, August 18 at 1:03pm, totalling 75 hours 3 minutes, breaking the previous record of 68 hours 30 minutes.

The 36-year-old mother of two from Mombasa, Kenya, cooked 400 recipes non-stop at the Kenya Bay Beach Resort in Mombasa, resting for only 30 minutes of every 12 hours of cooking.

She is the first African to break the record. Speaking at the Kenyan Bay Beach Hotel after her completion, she said: "The journey has been tiresome. My legs are very painful, my eyes are hurting due to lack of enough sleep, but I am grateful to have achieved this."

Her achievement is expected to be announce within next week and her name will be included in the Guinness Book of Record.