The footage shows a man placing slices of bacon on a pan on a sunny windowsill. Then he adds eggs. In the video, you can see how the egg white begins to solidify. The French prepares an English breakfast in the middle of a hot city, using only the sun’s rays.
And with humor at the end he adds the comment: “Tomorrow we will cook lamb with mushrooms.”
The footage was shared by Nexta TV, among others, with the fact that in France the temperatures exceeded 45 °C and people were frying eggs and bacon directly in the sun. In another post shared by television, the Parisian woman shows what happened to her chocolate bar in one hour.
In France, eggs and bacon are being fried directly in the sun — temperatures have exceeded 45°C
Rail traffic has been disrupted, schools have been closed, and part of the nuclear energy sector has been temporarily shut down.
A mass of hot air from the Sahara has covered… https://t.co/5ZiuirG66Z pic.twitter.com/4BfLXlbesa
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 26, 2026
The question remains whether it is really cooking exclusively with the help of outside temperatures. Similar videos also appeared during past heat waves. She often used dark metal surfaces, which in direct sunlight heat up significantly more than the air around them.
France, like many other European countries, is currently struggling with extremely high temperatures. In Paris, the extreme heat even led to filling the capacity of the hospitals there.
The French metropolis therefore introduced preventive measures due to the emergency situation. They also include a temporary ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol in public, with the exception of restaurants and bars.
The highest degree of heat warning applies to two-thirds of the French territory. Temperatures on Friday in some areas of France reached the limit of 40 degrees Celsius.
