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A hot summer day is a fine time to test out an old urban legend: That you can cook food on hot pavement.
Well, it turns out pavement doesn’t get all that hot. But cars? All that sheet metal gets much hotter, so this seemed like a possibility.
We trundled out a couple of parking-lot science trials, with our resident science guy, Tom Spears.
First, an easy one: How long does it take an ice cream cone to melt when it’s 34 C?
Equipment: A 75-cent cone from IKEA — same price with or without soft ice cream inside. We took the cone alone and added our own regular ice cream, from the newsroom freezer. It’s that kind of newsroom.
Second experiment, a little harder: Can you fry an egg on a hot car? Nicole, our video editor, has a black car and volunteered it.
We brought a black frying pan too, just in case.
Watch and learn.
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Well, it turns out pavement doesn’t get all that hot. But cars? All that sheet metal gets much hotter, so this seemed like a possibility.
We trundled out a couple of parking-lot science trials, with our resident science guy, Tom Spears.
First, an easy one: How long does it take an ice cream cone to melt when it’s 34 C?
Equipment: A 75-cent cone from IKEA — same price with or without soft ice cream inside. We took the cone alone and added our own regular ice cream, from the newsroom freezer. It’s that kind of newsroom.
Second experiment, a little harder: Can you fry an egg on a hot car? Nicole, our video editor, has a black car and volunteered it.
We brought a black frying pan too, just in case.
Watch and learn.
查看原文...
