Baking cookies in your car

[skcin]

How hot was it? Dashboard oven hot
New Hampshire woman bakes cookies on dashboard of her Toyota

Aug 3, 2006
BEDFORD, N.H. - 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.

"Mrs. Fields has nothing on Sandi," co-worker Brian Champigny said of the cookie company.

Though Thursday was supposed to be cooler, Fontaine said she'll still enjoy the benefits of her culinary effort.

"When you open the door to that car," she said, "it's like, oh, my God. It's a wonderful smell."

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[DrummerDeanna]

that is BRILLIANT!!! I may need to face the fact now that I will never lose weight

I so want to try making dash board cookies!!!

[goldie]

lol!! It was hotter than HECK here the past few days, I probably could have baked a chicken in my car!

[SuzeQuze]

It was crazy hot and so frikkin' humid too! This woman is a genius!

[irishgrl]

you can cook food under the hood too! all you need is FOIL! taking a long trip? no problem! you can bake/broil all sorts of stuff there's even an actual cookbook about it

here is a link with pictures:

http://www.supersoda.com/detail.php?id=00000000082

here's another link:

http://www.instructables.com/id/E4JKUKQOF4EP287XU5/

and here is the cookbook!

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

that is BRILLIANT!!! I may need to face the fact now that I will never lose weight

I so want to try making dash board cookies!!!

Me too. I've given up. I've accepted the spare tire.
Off to the cookie dough!

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

Manifold destiny??? I almost peed myself.

[DrummerDeanna]

Ok - there is a Wings episode with this type of thing in it...

The Car-B-Q Christy'll know what I'm talking about...

It's a contraption that goes under the hood of a car and you cook meat...Roy cooks chicken on the way to work etc...

[sara1998]

Originally Posted by skcin

I was cracking up when I read that article this morning.....

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Ok - there is a Wings episode with this type of thing in it...

The Car-B-Q Christy'll know what I'm talking about...

It's a contraption that goes under the hood of a car and you cook meat...Roy cooks chicken on the way to work etc...

ROTFLMAO!! Yep, Roy bought one from Lowell.

[BTFLCHLD]

a cookie..that would make me feel better.

[DavidMn]

Chocolate chip anyone? MMMMM