Hot Enough Outside to Fry an Egg? Heck, Burger King Found a Way to Sun-Grill a Whopper

The chain puts Kuwait's intense heat to good purpose

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If you’ve ever tried to fry an egg—or anything, really—on a sidewalk, you’ve likely been disappointed. I mean let’s face it, 115 degrees might feel insufferably hot, but it’s nowhere near even the lowest setting on an oven. Searing meat requires even more heat, in the neighborhood of 500 degrees.

But Burger King Kuwait and agency Memac Ogilvy aren’t letting the usual limitations of nature stop them.

The chain’s locations in the small and scorching Middle Eastern nation have found a way of grilling a Whopper using the sun’s rays as the catalyst.

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