It’s so hot in Arizona, you can bake cookies in a car

Hey, the hotter it gets, the more places you can bake cookies! Bring on global warming!

Here’s a global warming impact you might not have thought of: COOKIES FOR ALL! It’s over 100 degrees in Arizona right now and a Phoenix news team is making sure that doesn’t go to waste. They’re baking a batch of cookies on the dashboard of a car.

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Laughing Squid, which found this tweet, reports that the temperature inside the car is 200 degrees. Cookies would normally bake at, what, like 350? Still, we have confidence that the Arizona heat can eventually finish the job.

https://twitter.com/BobYoungTHI/statuses/350700819676553216

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