If you were to write one of those “Five Things To Know” articles about Emily Sutton, one item on the list would have to be about her love of cookies.
It’s no secret that she loves those delicious, sugary treats more than rainbows, wall clouds and hunky firemen wall calendars combined. In fact, she has a freezer full of Thin Mints and Samoas in the employee break room, and as part of her new contract, storm chasers and social media bandits deliver fresh baked snickerdoodle, oatmeal-raisin and macaroons – along with a fresh glass of cold milk – to her she-shed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
In addition to that, Emily also never turns down the opportunity to use cookies as a tool to educate Oklahomans about science and weather. For example, back in 2017 she used Oreo’s as a way to explain to KFOR viewers why meteorologists always fail at predicting finicky Oklahoma winter weather. Now she’s baking cookies in her car to explain how heat works:
SCIENCE EXPERIMENT! When life gives you record heat, you bake cookies in your car 🚙! 1:45PM bake begins. Thermometer in the shade of my car already reads 120 degrees. Outside temperature (Edmond) is 107. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE FOR THE COOKIES TO BAKE? 1:50PM @kfor pic.twitter.com/9isOOS7Nra
— Emily Sutton (@emilyrsutton) July 20, 2018
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE FOR THE COOKIES TO BAKE?
Well, that depends on a lot of factors. Is it a greased or non-stick baking pan? Is that Nestle or Pillsbury dough? Are you Scott Hines and like cookies toasty and brittle, or are you Jessica Bruno and prefer them soft and chewy? We need more details, Professor Sutton!
Here’s how the experiment turned out:
2:05PM – 20 min after bake start, cookies are baking! 120 inside car temp (I’m using a high tech thermometer…a meat thermometer 😂in the shade). 108 outside temp. pic.twitter.com/4MV3dUGccY
— Emily Sutton (@emilyrsutton) July 20, 2018
2:25PM – 40 min into baking and the cookies are looking good!!! Inside car temp now 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Outside temp 109. 🍪 I added a towel underneath the front one to protect the dash. @kfor #cookieexperiment #okwx #hotklahoma pic.twitter.com/wS467wHRx9
— Emily Sutton (@emilyrsutton) July 20, 2018
That’s pretty cool. It’s already working better than David Payne’s controversial experiment to see how long you can keep Val and Amy Caster trapped in a hot car before they expire.
2:45PM – one hour in the car and they look almost baked to me? Not crispy at all but I’m not sure that they will at a low temp. 130 degrees inside the car. 110 outside! @kfor #cookieexperiment #okwx #science #cookiemonster pic.twitter.com/qtatCxQITh
— Emily Sutton (@emilyrsutton) July 20, 2018
3:05PM – 1 hr 20 min in the car. Inside car temp is now 135 degrees. Outside temp is 111! I am impatient so I tried one. It’s not quite done but it’s ooey-gooey on the inside. I guess “soft baked”? Delish! #cookieexperiment #okwx #hot pic.twitter.com/OjG7eYTt55
— Emily Sutton (@emilyrsutton) July 20, 2018
Hmmn. For crispier cookies, I guess you need to park in the sun and not the shade, or not be a wuss and put a little towel underneath the pan.
3:25PM – 1 hour and 40 mins in the car and I say the cookies are DONE!!!! ✅ It’s now 140 degrees in the car and 111 outside. Time to go in the AC, have some milk and cookies and take a nap. ISN’T #SCIENCE AMAZING (and delicious)?!?!?! 🍪🍪🍪#breakingnews #cookieexperiment pic.twitter.com/GyGMu39rKY
— Emily Sutton (@emilyrsutton) July 20, 2018
Yeah, science sure is amazing. Who would have thought you could bake cookies in what basically amounts to an expensive, portable, summer time oven.
So how did the “cookie experiment” work? The sun shines through the glass & the visible/UV light makes it through but the infrared is reflected. All of the light entering the car is absorbed and re-radiated as infrared. The process continues and the car gets hot! 🍪#okwx #science pic.twitter.com/txMuQJgDKZ
— Emily Sutton (@emilyrsutton) July 20, 2018
That’s nice. Want a cookie?!
Anyway, I’d like to thank Emily for the nice lesson on how to bake cookies in the car. I wonder if you could also fry an egg on the sidewalk? Maybe that will be her next science experiment.
Update: Scandal alert!
And you thought Abigail Ogle was going to take over the world. I say not likely as long as Emily Sutton sits on the Iron Throne!
She didn’t really get the science correct. The visible light enters the window and is absorbed by the interior surfaces of the car (seats, dashboard, etc), more so if they are dark colored. Those things then heat the air in the car. Outside the car the hot air rises and/or is wisked away by the wind, but inside the car the hot air is trapped and just continues to get hotter. This is why the best thing you can do to keep your car cool (well at least temperature of the air outside) is to face your car toward the sun, put a reflective shade in the windshield and leave your windows and sun roof cracked open.
Color me unimpressed. Back in her day, Linda Cavanaugh used to make a beef stroganoff with a side of stuffed cabbage in the exhaust pipe of a Buick Lesabre anytime the temp was higher than 97.
Was that on the Emmy/Pulitzer winning “ladies of the Eighties” series?
My dad could make a mean grilled cheese sandwich on the manifold of a Plymouth Fury station wagon.
A black non stick pan, on the dash, facing the sun would have fixed all of this. and don’t open the doors until you see everything is done. (lets the heat out)
Science.
The girl on channel 9 did the cookie bit too. The pancakes were a second day.
I’d like to eat those cookies of hers!!
I can think of a couple of experiments I wouldn’t mind doing with her myself.
It’d be a lot cooler if she didn’t buy tens of thousands of twitter followers. Can’t believe a story hasn’t been done on that yet!
I see kelly ogle is ambulatory again. At least until the next sweeps.
What would we do with out the daily selfie or story of Emily. Sick to death of it.
I don’t care! Any pics of her full posterior floating around someone can post? She just gives a tantalizing hint of it during her morning weather report : (
I hardly listen to a word she says during it, too busy ogling…