While we've been experiencing pleasant springlike temperatures in our 'hood, much of the rest of the nation has been suffering in a burning hell of a heat wave. (We're not feeling smug at all.)
But hey, if you can't beat the heat, might as well bake in it! Several curious folks (and content-desperate media outlets) turned their cars into makeshift ovens, cooking up . . . well, see for yourself after the jump.
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S'mores
In Cleveland, a local hospital baked the campfire favorite in a car, demonstrating that it is, in fact, hot in hurrr.
Steak
DC-based WTOP cranked it up a few notches by cooking an entire steak meal. 
Lots of folks attempted cookies, but our sister paper Dallas Observer baked cookies and bacon. Then ate it. And lived to tell about it.
DC-based WTOP cranked it up a few notches by cooking an entire steak meal.
Pizza and Chicken
Blogger Earl Green gives step-by-step instructions on solar-cooking frozen pizza and chicken filets, adding in the comments, “You can call it redneck. I call it resourceful!”
Cookies and Bacon
Lots of folks attempted cookies, but our sister paper Dallas Observer baked cookies and bacon. Then ate it. And lived to tell about it.
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