Damilola Adeparusi, now referred to as Chef Dammy, has garnered attention for her attempt to cook for 120 consecutive hours.

The Ekiti-based student embarked on a cook-a-thon on June 9 after Hilda Bassey, a popular chef, completed her world record attempt to cook for 100 hours.

Since Chef Dammy’s attempt started airing live on social media, she has received mixed reactions from members of the public, and some have claimed she needs to wait a year after Bassey’s certification by the Guinness World Records (GWR), which came on Monday, to set a new record.

This claim has become so popular, and many have shared it on social media.

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CLAIM: To attempt to break an existing record, one needs to wait one year.

VERIFICATION: FIJ created an account on the GWR website and applied for the same record Hilda and Dammy applied for.

We indicated we would be making the attempt in three days from the date of filing this report.

GWR informed us they usually review applications over a 12-week (three-month) period, but could review our application in less than five working days for a fee.

We told GWR that we would attempt to reach 120 hours of individual cooking, similar to chef Dammy’s published attempt, and stated that it would be for the purpose of fact-checking.

After we indicated how long we would cook for, what purpose our record attempt was for, and if we would be getting any help during the attempt, we got a £500 bill.

Standard applications do not take longer than three months to review, according to the website, and are free, but priority applications like ours cost money to review.

This review is to check if the record title matches what we described our attempt to be. If this criterion is fulfilled, one can attempt to break the record.

In its agreement with FIJ, GWR said it would confirm if the record title was suitable, or suggest another. It did not say it might reject or stop us from making an attempt.

It also did not stop us from applying, given that it only just awarded Hilda Bassey the record on the same day we applied.

According to the contract, we would have to provide evidence upon completing the attempt, and each attempt has its own distinct rules for presenting evidence.

A dispute may arise from the belief that because GWR publishes its book once a year, one can only attempt to break a record once a year. We checked that claim in the FAQ section of the GWR website, and this turned up false.

The website gave no guarantee that all record attempts would feature in its annual publication.

It said out of 40,000 records in its database, only about 4,000 would feature in the annual publication.

The GWR updates its website every week and features over 15,000 records online. An update in this sense would mean changes to existing records or new records set.

There is nowhere on the GWR website where it asks members of the public to wait a year after its book publication or a record is broken before they can make their own attempts.

CONCLUSION: There are no supporting facts to the claim that one needs to wait one year to break a new record.

VERDICT: The claim that one needs to wait a year before attempting to break a record is false.