It turns out you can use a car as an oven. Image Credit: Facebook / Stu Pengelly
Australia's heatwave is now so extreme that one man claims that he was able to use his car to cook a roast.
With Australia reporting record-breaking temperatures of up to 40.9C this week, Perth resident Stu Pengelly decided to test just how hot it was inside his car by using the heat to cook a pork roast.
He placed the meat on a baking tin and left it on the front seat of his red Datsun Sunny.
The temperature rose throughout the day from 30C at 7am to a whopping 81C by 1pm.
Incredibly, after ten hours in the car, the pork roast was actually cooked.
"Yesterday, I cooked [a] 1.5kg pork roast inside an old Datsun Sunny for 10 hrs on a 39 degree day," he wrote. "It worked a treat!"
There was however a serious reason that he had decided to carry out the experiment.
"Things to note... it has tinted windows, door and window seals are shot and there is a big rust hole in the roof, which stops the car getting as hot as it potentially could," he wrote. "If this was a later model vehicle and painted black the temperature at a guess could climb significantly higher."
"My warning is do not leave anyone or anything precious to you in a hot car, not for a minute."
"If you do see kids or dogs in a hot car, DO NOT HESITATE TO SMASH A WINDOW to get them out ASAP. It is not an offence to do this and you could save a life. Please keep a watch out."
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Yes this wasn't engine temp, this was internal car temp. Much different. And pork doesn't have to be cooked well like before, that has changed in the last 10 years, atleast here in Canada. You should however, never leaved cooked pork out for any length of time and then try to eat it later.
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