As South Australia swelters, Adelaide man cooks a steak in his Holden Monaro
AN Adelaide man has cooked a steak in his Holden Monaro in what could be one of the most Australian science experiments of all time.
AN ADELAIDE man has cooked a steak in his Holden Monaro in what could be one of the most Australian science experiments of all time.
As South Australia swelters through four days of 40C+ weather, Max Wooldridge, 26, decided to harness the oven-like properties of his 2005 Monaro’s interior to turn raw slabs of steak into a tasty lunch.
In typical Australian fashion, the idea was hatched over a few drinks down the pub.
“Last night, I went out drinking with a couple of guys and one of them said, ‘if you’re so concerned about your car getting so hot why don’t you put it to good use and turn it into an oven?’,” the Marion man told The Advertiser, adding he was also inspired by a similar experiment by celebrity chef Matt Moran.
In Sydney earlier this month, Moran cooked a cut of lamb in the centre console of his car to raise awareness of the dangers of leaving kids in hot cars.
Mr Wooldridge conducted his experiment in the carpark at work, putting a steak in a silver tray around 10am and popping outside regularly to check the temperature and take photos.
“It was in there for about half an hour, in the same place Matt Moran did his roast, but it didn’t cook, I’ve got window tinting and it didn’t work.
“So we moved it up on the dash around 10.30 and it was done by twenty past 12.”
Mr Wooldridge says temperatures in the car reached over 80C.
“When I brought it in from the car my mate came in and we both ate it and before we did we made sure we gave it a lick with the gas torch because we weren’t convinced the outside had reached 72 degrees, but the inside turned out to be about a medium rare.”
He says he was aware you could cook food in a car’s engine bay but never thought about searing off some red meat inside the car - until he saw the Matt Moran video.
“I was surprised at how quickly the steak cooked – it was honestly just over an hour-and-a-half.
“I didn’t do it for awareness – it was just for fun and a bit of a personal experiment to see if it was actually possible to cook meat in the car.
“Turns out it is!”