Dashboard Cookies: Woman Bakes Cookies in Car on Hot Day

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The thread discusses the phenomenon of baking cookies in a car on a hot day, as demonstrated by a woman who successfully baked cookies on her dashboard. The conversation explores the practicality, temperature requirements, and potential effects of extreme heat on various items left in a car.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express interest in trying to bake cookies in their cars under similar conditions, noting the required outside temperature of at least 95 degrees.
  • Questions arise about the baking time needed at 200 degrees for cookies to be properly cooked, with some participants wondering if the cookies could be overcooked if left unattended for too long.
  • Several participants share anecdotes about the effects of heat on personal items in cars, such as lipstick, deodorant, crayons, balloons, gummy bears, and chocolate.

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Participants generally agree on the feasibility of baking cookies in a hot car, but there are multiple competing views regarding the specifics of baking time and the effects of heat on various items, leaving the discussion somewhat unresolved.

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There are limitations in the discussion regarding the exact baking times and temperatures, as well as the potential for overcooking cookies, which remain unspecified.

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http://www.livescience.com/othernews/ap_060804_dashboard_cookies.html
It Was So Hot ... A Woman Baked Cookies in Her Car

By The Associated Press

posted: 04 August 2006
02:03 pm ET


BEDFORD, N.H. (AP)—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.
I'm tempted to try this if it heats up again.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/ap_060804_dashboard_cookies.html

I'm tempted to try this if it heats up again.
You should see what it does to your lipstick. :cry:
 
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yeah, I found that out the hard way once. :frown:
 
How long do you have to bake cookies at 200 degrees for them to be done? Fresh baked cookie smell...that's got to be way better than one of those pine tree air fresheners!
 
Moonbear said:
How long do you have to bake cookies at 200 degrees for them to be done? Fresh baked cookie smell...that's got to be way better than one of those pine tree air fresheners!
That is what I was wondering. Did she overcook them since she was at work all day?
 
Evo said:
You should see what it does to your lipstick. :cry:

I found out what it does to a stick of deodorant. It made a nice fresh scented puddle of goop inside my arm rest. My car smelled fresh for weeks afterwards.
 
Never leave crayons in a hot car either. Or balloons.
 
or gummie bears

or CHOCOLATE :cry: