Hot enough to FRY eggs on the sidewalk??

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As the heat wave yokes the East Coast and beyond, a question sizzles in the back of many minds: Is it hot enough to cook an egg on the sidewalk?
Experts tell The Washington Post there are many factors beyond air temperature: You’ve got surface type, time in sunlight, wind speed, egg tempering and more. The quip has spawned plenty of failed attempts and even an annual “Sidewalk Egg Fry” that is in its third decade in the desert city of Oatman, Ariz.

But it is unlikely in the United States for there to be the right conditions outside to cook an egg right on a sidewalk, said Teresa Bals-Elsholz, chair of Valparaiso University’s department of geography and meteorology.
In the right conditions? “This isn’t going to be a two-to-three-minute egg,” she said.
She said that, even in the current extreme temperatures, concrete will only get to 120 or 125 degrees and blacktop asphalt would get to 140.
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In Arizona you can bake cookies on your car dashboard in the summer

winterrose
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Over here in the Middle East, our summers get to around 45°c every year (above 110 Fahrenheit), and the pavement can absorb heat and get much hotter than that, so people have shown that you can in fact cook an egg on the pavement.
But you can try to redo your test in a car that is parked out in the hot sun all day. Temperature inside should get well above the temperature on the street.

yyyyyk
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Bro, thats not brick, thats a squared stone. Brick is baked clay and has some refractory qualities.

tommothedog
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jamestaylor
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In the Mojave Desert, where I live, it can get up to 115-120 in the summer, and you can cook steaks on the sidewalk

GreysonWeaver-etnm
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Finally, a news reporter answering the real questions that us everyday people actually care about!

samuelgreen
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"I want to know if its actually possible."
As an Arizona Resident, i can confirm. Once had a small side hustle for warming up people's lunches using a 'sidewalk grill'

CyCen
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In South Carolina you can put potatoes on your dashboard when you park your car in the morning and when you drive home in the evening they are cooked.

robertporter
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A black pan in direct sunlight and and egg that is already at room temp may weel do it. Also having it on black asphalt would add a few degrees

pcsurgeontheoriginal
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In phoenix, my sidewalk egg half cooked, but mostly just dehydrated. But in your car? GUARANTEED.
My mom accidentally left chicken outside to thaw, but it actually mostly cooked in the sun 😅

bobfox
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In London there is a building called the walkie talkie that was reflecting the sun down. It melted cars.

liz-qqkb
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Some guy from australia also cooked kangaroo meat and crocodile sausage on a pan under the sun, you can see it on here

yektaagra
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What kills me is the notion that 98 was hot 😂

TheHeadDreamer
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This is the important research I expect from a totally normal newspaper

thalt
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I used to live in Karratha, a place in North Western Australia. My dad would leave a frozen pie outside and have a perfectly cooked lunch 30 minutes later, our workplace would sometimes leave a metal plate outside at the start of the day and we'd have a huge BBQ feast for lunch, and on really bad days everyone's boots started melting to the road if you stood on it for longer than 20 seconds (we timed it)

nathanieltodd
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Welcome to Houston, buddy. 110 degrees and humid as all get out

KrazeGaming_
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Me as a European hearing "we gotta get some eggs" and then seeing the chiller door open.

* *confusion* *

GNZOU
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I made cookies in my car once when it was 111F one day. Im certain I could have easily made eggs too.

paldnlght
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They did this in Portland, OR, during our 120°F heatwave in 2021. Twas on the news, took less than 30m to cook.

josephsalomone
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This "they them" has enough money to afford eggs!?

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