05-07-2018 13:06 via ottawacitizen.com

Is Ottawa hot enough to cook an egg on a car?

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
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