N.H. Woman Bakes Cookies on Dashboard

[Brutuskend]

N.H. Woman Bakes Cookies on Dashboard
By Associated Press
Thu Aug 3, 1:06 PM

BEDFORD, N.H. - Blistering heat was just what Sandi Fontaine needed to bake cookies for her co-workers _ on the dash of her Toyota Rav4.

With temperatures soaring Wednesday, Fontaine placed two trays of cookie dough on the dashboard, shut the doors and retreated inside to her air conditioned office.

"My husband wanted me to run some errands this morning," said Fontaine, who works at Baldwin and Clarke Corporate Finance. "I said, 'I can't. I'm baking cookies.'"

Fontaine first tested her dashboard oven three years ago. She said anyone can do it; the only requirement is for the outside temperature to be at least 95 degrees, so it will rise to about 200 degrees in the car. Temperatures in the area reached the mid to upper 90s on Wednesday.

"Mrs. Fields has nothing on Sandi," co-worker Brian Champigny said of the cookie company.

Though Thursday was supposed to be cooler, Fontaine said she'll still enjoy the benefits of her culinary effort.

"When you open the door to that car," she said, "it's like, oh my God. It's a wonderful smell."

 

[DAGTA]

I wonder how long that would take in Phoenix, in July, when it's 115F outside.

 

[bolomite]

200 degrees inside the car?! Doesn't seem possible.

 

[FrustratedUser]

ROFL!

 

[ballmode]

ive done this before

for some odd reason they make odd shapes

 

[jagec]

Just make sure you do it in an OLD car, since the volatiles in all the plastic on new cars (the source of the "new car smell") can't be good for you.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: bolomite
200 degrees inside the car?! Doesn't seem possible.

I'll believe it.

Do you have a car?

Do you have an oven?

Turn the oven up to 200, and stick your head in. Feels just like getting in to the car on a hot day, don't it?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: jagec
Just make sure you do it in an OLD car, since the volatiles in all the plastic on new cars (the source of the "new car smell") can't be good for you.

uhhh, you don't put the cookies on the dashboard. You put COOKIE SHEETS on the dashboard, with cookies on those. Unless you're licking the bottom of the sheet, I see no problem.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: jagec
Just make sure you do it in an OLD car, since the volatiles in all the plastic on new cars (the source of the "new car smell") can't be good for you.

uhhh, you don't put the cookies on the dashboard. You put COOKIE SHEETS on the dashboard, with cookies on those. Unless you're licking the bottom of the sheet, I see no problem.

You know, that air you're breathing has a lot more in it than oxygen and nitrogen. Not all of it is really good for you. Well, the inside of a car is even worse.

Or to put it another way, if you were to bake cookies in your oven, do you think it would make a difference if you put pieces of car dash in there with them? Even if they're not touching?

 

[Sc4freak]

Mythbusters did an experiment on this - the temperatures really did rise pretty dramatically inside the car. And it was hot enough to cause cookie dough in the can to explode due to heat expansion.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: jagec
Just make sure you do it in an OLD car, since the volatiles in all the plastic on new cars (the source of the "new car smell") can't be good for you.

uhhh, you don't put the cookies on the dashboard. You put COOKIE SHEETS on the dashboard, with cookies on those. Unless you're licking the bottom of the sheet, I see no problem.

You know, that air you're breathing has a lot more in it than oxygen and nitrogen. Not all of it is really good for you. Well, the inside of a car is even worse.

Or to put it another way, if you were to bake cookies in your oven, do you think it would make a difference if you put pieces of car dash in there with them? Even if they're not touching?

And yet you can breathe the very same air that just touched that cookie....... With no ill effects. Indefinitely. So long as you prevent physical transfer by absorption of whatever awesomeness the plastic is harboring, content leeched out of the air in the 20 minutes MAX that it takes to bake a cookie is going to be WAY below anything even remotely considered dangerous.

 

[cleanerupper]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: jagec
Just make sure you do it in an OLD car, since the volatiles in all the plastic on new cars (the source of the "new car smell") can't be good for you.

uhhh, you don't put the cookies on the dashboard. You put COOKIE SHEETS on the dashboard, with cookies on those. Unless you're licking the bottom of the sheet, I see no problem.

You know, that air you're breathing has a lot more in it than oxygen and nitrogen. Not all of it is really good for you. Well, the inside of a car is even worse.

Or to put it another way, if you were to bake cookies in your oven, do you think it would make a difference if you put pieces of car dash in there with them? Even if they're not touching?

And yet you can breathe the very same air that just touched that cookie....... With no ill effects. Indefinitely. So long as you prevent physical transfer by absorption of whatever awesomeness the plastic is harboring, content leeched out of the air in the 20 minutes MAX that it takes to bake a cookie is going to be WAY below anything even remotely considered dangerous.

pwnd

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
And yet you can breathe the very same air that just touched that cookie....... With no ill effects. Indefinitely. So long as you prevent physical transfer by absorption of whatever awesomeness the plastic is harboring, content leeched out of the air in the 20 minutes MAX that it takes to bake a cookie is going to be WAY below anything even remotely considered dangerous.

I still submit that it will taste like crap. Or, at least, closer to crap than a cookie baked in a real oven.

 

[newmachineoverlord]

Edit: Ok, I put an oven thermometer in my car and tried this. I found that from 11am-2pm typical car temps were 150-175, parked away from shade. Avoiding shade is critical for good temps, and I suspect that UV index correlates better than ambient temperature with good baking temps.

After further research I determined that 140F is high enough to kill salmonella as long as the duration is long. Thus an hour and a half in the car is long enough to get completely gooey, but safe to eat cookies. After four hours, the cookies are dried out and crunchy. They never burn, but I think they're best when cooking duration is less than 2.5 hours. Oh, and only make small cookies, or they'll be very uneven between the center and the edges. I don't think this will work well for brownies.

Pizza, however, turns out great. 1.5 hours was enough for a frozen pizza. I have not yet tried baking fresh pizza in the car, I suspect you would have to bake the crust first, and coat it in oil or it would dry out. I now leave pizza in my car during the day to cook while I'm at work. The car still keeps it warm after it's done cooking in the afternoon. I highly recommend the usage of a car as a solar cooker for pizza, cookies, bean burritos, and under carefully monitored conditions, eggs.

 

[cleanerupper]

Originally posted by: newmachineoverlord
Edit: Ok, I put an oven thermometer in my car and tried this. I found that from 11am-2pm typical car temps were 150-175, parked away from shade. Avoiding shade is critical for good temps, and I suspect that UV index correlates better than ambient temperature with good baking temps.

After further research I determined that 140F is high enough to kill salmonella as long as the duration is long. Thus an hour and a half in the car is long enough to get completely gooey, but safe to eat cookies. After four hours, the cookies are dried out and crunchy. They never burn, but I think they're best when cooking duration is less than 2.5 hours. Oh, and only make small cookies, or they'll be very uneven between the center and the edges. I don't think this will work well for brownies.

Pizza, however, turns out great. 1.5 hours was enough for a frozen pizza. I have not yet tried baking fresh pizza in the car, I suspect you would have to bake the crust first, and coat it in oil or it would dry out. I now leave pizza in my car during the day to cook while I'm at work. The car still keeps it warm after it's done cooking in the afternoon. I highly recommend the usage of a car as a solar cooker for pizza, cookies, bean burritos, and under carefully monitored conditions, eggs.

Cool.

 

[Shawn]

This is true. My radar detector actually melted because my car gets so hot. My dash also has so many cracks in it now that I had to get a dash cover because it looked so ugly. I am planning on tinting the windshield with a light tint. Hopefully I don't get pulled over.

 

[chuckywang]

WTF..my mom has a Rav 4.

 

[jagec]

I was just thinking "Wow, that looks just like the thread in which I got pwned."

 

[tyler811]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: bolomite
200 degrees inside the car?! Doesn't seem possible.

I'll believe it.

Do you have a car?

Do you have an oven?

Turn the oven up to 200, and stick your head in. Feels just like getting in to the car on a hot day, don't it?

lol

 

[ElFenix]

why does it have to be october by the time i see this?

no cookie goodness for me

would have been really awesome for bar class too... go in at 9, come out at 1 with a hot pizza for lunch

 

[cleanerupper]

I wonder how hot the metal on your doors can get on a hot day. Anyone have an estimate?

 

[Itchrelief]

Seems like it would be better for slow cooking, kind of a smokeless BBQ.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally posted by: cleanerupper
I wonder how hot the metal on your doors can get on a hot day. Anyone have an estimate?

Too hot to touch