Temperatures have risen so high that you can now use your car to cook food, and the worst of the hit is yet to arrive. One TikTok user has successfully cooked an egg inside her Toyota Yaris, in a video shared by auto dealership Peter Vardy.
The TikTok video was created by a user named Gladys in the UK and shows an in-car thermometer reading a temperature of over 40°C, and Gladys positioning a frying pan on the dashboard and cooking in the sun’s heat.
Gladys said: “I work as a community carer and we had been so hot travelling around in the car, that I brought in two thermometers to check what the temperature was inside. The temperature at one point had reached 58.3°C!
“Just the day before I was discussing the weather with a friend and I thought, ‘I wonder if you could cook anything in the car?’, so I gave frying an egg a go! It fully cooked after about an hour of sitting in the vehicle. I couldn’t believe it.”
Craig Forbes, motoring expert from Peter Vardy, said: “Many drivers will know the pain of getting into a sizzling car. The fact that car interiors are hot enough to cook an egg is pretty worrying. My advice to drivers would be to take care during the heatwave, take extra steps to cool your car’s interior and if you think it’s too hot to drive comfortably, don’t get behind the wheel.”
Additionally, Peter Vardy have provided three tips to cool your car down in summer:
Hang an iced damp flannel in front of your vents
Taking an iced cloth into the car with you and placing loosely over your vents can cool the air blown at you as you drive.Use old bedding as dashboard covers
If parking in the shade isn’t an option, use old bedding to cover the dashboard. If you’ve got leather seats, old oversized clothes make great seat covers when you’re not sitting behind the wheel.Air out the car before you drive
Opening the doors and windows of your car and allowing the hot air to cool before you get in is the easiest way to avoid the stifling air when you first get in.
