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\n Monday was warm enough to bake cookies on the board, and they proved it<\/span>\n <\/p>\n Cookies are baked on the dashboard of a hot car Monday outside Ashley Furniture in Medford. [Photo courtesy of Jason Petsthe]<\/p>\n The finished product, fresh from the script. [Photo courtesy of Jason Petsthe]<\/p>\n Though largely unfazed by a weeklong forecast of triple-digit temperatures, employees at the Ashley Furniture store in Medford found a way to smile through their suffering Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n Store employees Tricia Bradford and Jason Petsthe decided to make some chocolate chip cookies on the dashboard of a hot car.<\/p>\n Petsthe said it was “a slow day at the store.”<\/p>\n Adding insult to injury, power was out in the Ashley Furniture warehouse, along with other parts of Medford, and computers were inside the store.<\/p>\n Petsthe brought the cookie dough to work, minding the sleepers. Bradford immediately went on board.<\/p>\n \u201cIt took four hours total,\u201d Bradford said with a laugh.<\/p>\n “We just got the Nestl\u00e9 premade stuff and we put it on in the morning, about 11 a.m., and we kept checking it. By 3 p.m. it was 106 or 107 degrees, so probably 167 on the dashboard of the car “.<\/p>\n Bradford said the cookies were a hit, for entertaining and snacking purposes.<\/p>\n “It’s outrageous that it’s SO hot in Medford that you can bake cookies in a hot car. It’s like those Easy-Bake ovens we had as kids. We were all laughing when we realized it worked and they were crispy on the outside,” she said Bradford.<\/p>\n “We were joking that we should start putting out our breakfast burritos in the morning or maybe bring a cast iron skillet and cook some fried eggs.”<\/p>\n While not exactly a comfort food climate, the store’s employees had no qualms about what kind of “apparatus” was used to bake their tasty treats.<\/p>\n “Everybody loved them,” Bradford said. “Hot cookies, fresh out of the car!”<\/p>\n Contact Mail Tribune reporter Buffy Pollock at 541-776-8784 or bpollock@rosebudmedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @orwritergal.<\/p>\n