Do we all understand this is meant as a commentary on climate change, and not an actual recommendation to use your mailbox as a cooking implement?
…uh, folks?
Then explain “Dishwasher Salmon”.
“Oh shit my oven isn’t working and I have company coming over…”
glances at dishwasher
“hmmm…”
Just buy a damn solar oven and leave the mailbox alone.
Buy one? They’re ridiculously easy to make yourself
In fact, if you have a mailbox then you already have one!
Full circle
Why would I spend all that money to buy a solar oven when I’ve already got a perfectly good mailbox?
Using cooked meat or not, almost certainly not going to get hot enough to pasteurize and not airtight to prevent contamination.
So…sounds like a perfect incubator for bacteria.
I don’t know where this is but it doesn’t sound impossible to me. A quick Google shows that the FDA recommends 160 F for casseroles and that in direct sunlight a car can hit 160 if the ambient temp is >105 F. I know mailboxes aren’t cars, but over a longer period in a smaller metal box, it seems like the math could check out
I live in Utah where it’s been sinfully hot and dry for the last week. I fully intend to test this theory. I just bought a high temp probe that should get here tomorrow. I will provide an update once the testing has been completed.
Please, post it so we can see!
Alright, I have the sensor installed. It’s a bit cooler and more overcast today, but I’ll hopefully be able to get some good data.
By the way, just a quick tip, if you haven’t already maybe try airgapping the sensor from the metal with some foam so you’re measuring the air itself.
I have it positioned right now so that the probe tip isn’t touching any metal, but I’ll probably add a bit of foam. I have some incredibly irritating foam packing peanuts that would probably work well. I’ll go do that now.
EDIT: here it is, in all its gloriously crappy, uh, glory:
Haha it’s beautiful. Curious about the results.
I don’t know if this could inadvertently dox you but I’d be curious to see an hourly outside temperature too to see how much hotter a mailbox gets than outside. Based off your first graph here I’m wondering if cars having glass windows makes a greenhouse effect that would make a car hotter than a mailbox, everything else equal?
Seems like a worthwhile thing to do! I’m not worried about doxxing, since someone would have to go to pretty extreme measures to correlate with the exact climate where I’m at. I installed the sensor after the hottest time of day had already passed, but here’s what it looked like:
I’m pretty sure the spikes in the mailbox temperature were due to cloud cover.
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Does that work?
I don’t know. I’ve seen this used occasionally and thought I’d try it here. What’s to lose?
Fuck yeah, I love this. I’m so excited to see your results
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So… it might work great for posthummus?
If you make hummus in a mailbox, and eat it later, you are eating it posthummusly.
I pelt you with chickpeas.
Of course, you know the difference between a Garbanzo bean and a chickpea.
I’ve never had a naked Garbanzo bean in my mailbox while on the run from a police dog and high on meth
I would just assume you left me a lasagna when I delivered your mail
Imagine my anger realizing my free lunch isn’t cooked
Pretty standard hotbox cooking. It’s not the cleanest, but nothing criminal except the act itself.
Oh look, I got a subpoena but it’s drenched in grease. And here’s a letter from Aunt Edna, also totally soaked. Mailbox cooking is the best though.
I hope there’s no stray dogs in your neighborhood, or you might have trouble getting to your mailbox at all when you come home.
No no, let him cook!
