If you were to write one of those "Five Things To Know" articles about Emily Sutton, one item on the list would have to be about her love of cookies.
It's no secret that she loves those delicious, sugary treats more than rainbows, wall clouds and hunky firemen wall calendars combined. In fact, she has a freezer full of Thin Mints and Samoas in the employee break room, and as part of her new contract, storm chasers and social media bandits deliver fresh baked snickerdoodle, oatmeal-raisin and macaroons – along with a fresh glass of cold milk – to her she-shed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
SCIENCE EXPERIMENT! When life gives you record heat, you bake cookies in your car 🚙! 1:45PM bake begins. Thermometer in the shade of my car already reads 120 degrees. Outside temperature (Edmond) is 107. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE FOR THE COOKIES TO BAKE? 1:50PM @kforpic.twitter.com/9isOOS7Nra
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE FOR THE COOKIES TO BAKE?
Well, that depends on a lot of factors. Is it a greased or non-stick baking pan? Is that Nestle or Pillsbury dough? Are you Scott Hines and like cookies toasty and brittle, or are you Jessica Bruno and prefer them soft and chewy? We need more details, Professor Sutton!
Here's how the experiment turned out:
2:05PM - 20 min after bake start, cookies are baking! 120 inside car temp (I’m using a high tech thermometer...a meat thermometer 😂in the shade). 108 outside temp. pic.twitter.com/4MV3dUGccY
That's pretty cool. It's already working better than David Payne's controversial experiment to see how long you can keep Val and Amy Caster trapped in a hot car before they expire.
3:05PM - 1 hr 20 min in the car. Inside car temp is now 135 degrees. Outside temp is 111! I am impatient so I tried one. It’s not quite done but it’s ooey-gooey on the inside. I guess “soft baked”? Delish! #cookieexperiment#okwx#hotpic.twitter.com/OjG7eYTt55
Hmmn. For crispier cookies, I guess you need to park in the sun and not the shade, or not be a wuss and put a little towel underneath the pan.
3:25PM - 1 hour and 40 mins in the car and I say the cookies are DONE!!!! ✅ It’s now 140 degrees in the car and 111 outside. Time to go in the AC, have some milk and cookies and take a nap. ISN’T #SCIENCE AMAZING (and delicious)?!?!?! 🍪🍪🍪#breakingnews#cookieexperimentpic.twitter.com/GyGMu39rKY
Yeah, science sure is amazing. Who would have thought you could bake cookies in what basically amounts to an expensive, portable, summer time oven.
So how did the “cookie experiment” work? The sun shines through the glass & the visible/UV light makes it through but the infrared is reflected. All of the light entering the car is absorbed and re-radiated as infrared. The process continues and the car gets hot! 🍪#okwx#sciencepic.twitter.com/txMuQJgDKZ
Anyway, I'd like to thank Emily for the nice lesson on how to bake cookies in the car. I wonder if you could also fry an egg on the sidewalk? Maybe that will be her next science experiment.