Just buy a damn solar oven and leave the mailbox alone.
Why would I spend all that money to buy a solar oven when I’ve already got a perfectly good mailbox?
Buy one? They’re ridiculously easy to make yourself
In fact, if you have a mailbox then you already have one!
Full circle
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.
