PARIS - A teacher in southern France fried an egg on the scorching hot school playground floor, German Press Agency (dpa) reported.
Local radio station France Bleu reported on Wednesday that the teacher placed a pan on the ground, waited half an hour, and then cracked an egg into it, which was cooked in no time.
A video shows the man measuring the temperature on the handle of the pan at the end of his experiment and stating that it is a good 80 degrees Celsius.
The teacher wanted to draw attention to how poorly equipped his secondary school in Quissac is for the heat. According to his calculations, there is only 60 to 80 square centimetres of shade per pupil in the playground.
"We have three concrete table tennis tables," he told France Bleu. "Sometimes the pupils take refuge under them to find some shade."
There were no classes at the school on Tuesday when the teacher conducted his experiment, due to the extremely hot weather. However, the children whose parents were unable to look after them were still on the premises, he said.
Some 2,200 schools across France were closed on Tuesday due to the extreme heat. In some places, temperatures exceeded 41 degrees Celsius. Around 100 schools across the country remained closed on Wednesday.
Many school buildings in France are not designed for high temperatures. This is partly because more than half of them were built before 1979, according to the broadcaster Public Sénat.
The government plans to renovate 40,000 schools and make them more energy-efficient by 2034. - BERNAMA