[HN Gopher] Baking bread with a hot car
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       Baking bread with a hot car
        
       Author : jsnell
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-11-11 01:57 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | ohiovr wrote:
       | Not going to work when the northern hemisphere sunlight is
       | blocked by 70%.
        
       | NalNezumi wrote:
       | In the same spirit there was a Japanese guy (found it [0]) who
       | tried to cook roast beef in a car in Japan, as a warning to
       | people leaving their kids/pet in the car under hot summer
       | conditions. (which unfortunately happens every summer, with
       | tragic outcomes)
       | 
       | [0] https://youtu.be/G7OE3H4L5f0
        
         | CrazyStat wrote:
         | I spent a summer in Texas interning at a bank and baked
         | chocolate chip cookies on my dash one day. Tan car with heavily
         | tinted windows, so far from optimal from a heating perspective,
         | but it still got up to 180F in the back seat.
         | 
         | The cookies baked decently but it wasn't hot enough to brown
         | them properly so the flavor was a bit lacking.
        
       | bhaney wrote:
       | tl;dr - there is a kind of bread that is traditionally baked in
       | geothermally active areas by leaving it in a hot hole. This guy
       | tried to make the same bread by leaving it in his hot car, but it
       | didn't work so he finished it in a normal oven.
       | 
       | A fun experiment to be sure, but not particularly interesting
       | results. Whether or not it's worth reading the entire thread
       | probably depends on how interested you are in repeated updates
       | about how much some dough has risen.
        
       | wingspar wrote:
       | Always got a kick out of the book 'Manifold Destiny", I have the
       | original edition. Never did any of the recipes, but seems like it
       | would be fun.
       | 
       | Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car
       | Engine!
       | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1662735.Manifold_Destiny
        
         | blamazon wrote:
         | Mythbusters and Alton Brown teamed up in 2012 to try cooking a
         | thanksgiving dinner with a car:
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         | https://youtu.be/tqABijWMlxA
         | 
         | Alton Brown was recently asked about this and replied simply:
         | "inedible", but Adam Savage also recently discussed it and said
         | it was cold by the time they got to it, due to "the vagaries of
         | television" but quite edible:
         | 
         | https://youtu.be/Dd5pb_mzk14
        
         | Avshalom wrote:
         | Used to do this when we were driving up and down the AlCan. Not
         | while we were driving so much but an 80s Suburban has plenty of
         | thermal mass to cook a loaf of garlic bread once you've parked
         | at the campground.
        
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