Nobody here is considering how hot this can be. My father told me that when his ship was transiting the Red Sea, with torrid sunlight, the crew began to wonder if the deck (steel painted grey) was hot enough to fry an egg. So, they got an egg and cracked it open on the deck. It fried. How hot is your black frying pan when it fries an egg?
Leather only partly protects from heat. Rubber would simply melt and is also not a perfect insulator. I'm not sure what nylon would do, but I don't think molten polyester is anything you want to have on your hands.
I predict people will try with gloves, get up maybe a few yards and be forced to drop from the increasing pain. Gonna be broken arms and legs from the drop, betcha.
60°C/140°F is hot enough to cook an egg sufficiently that the white coagulates, that's not that much hotter than the ambient temperature in some extreme places, so it's very reasonable that the sun can heat a surface enough over time to actually fry an egg.
That would be barely sizzling. My father, who saw it, flat out said it fried. Air temperatures in the Red Sea / Persian Gulf climes can get up to 140 F. Surface temperatures can be much hotter (remember, the air is heated by the surface).
The point being that if it can be that bad with a grey surface, it will be worse with a black surface.
Nobody here is considering how hot this can be. My father told me that when his ship was transiting the Red Sea, with torrid sunlight, the crew began to wonder if the deck (steel painted grey) was hot enough to fry an egg. So, they got an egg and cracked it open on the deck. It fried. How hot is your black frying pan when it fries an egg?
Leather only partly protects from heat. Rubber would simply melt and is also not a perfect insulator. I'm not sure what nylon would do, but I don't think molten polyester is anything you want to have on your hands.
I predict people will try with gloves, get up maybe a few yards and be forced to drop from the increasing pain. Gonna be broken arms and legs from the drop, betcha.
60°C/140°F is hot enough to cook an egg sufficiently that the white coagulates, that's not that much hotter than the ambient temperature in some extreme places, so it's very reasonable that the sun can heat a surface enough over time to actually fry an egg.
Soldiers would routinely fry eggs on their tanks during WW2 in north Africa.
That would be barely sizzling. My father, who saw it, flat out said it fried. Air temperatures in the Red Sea / Persian Gulf climes can get up to 140 F. Surface temperatures can be much hotter (remember, the air is heated by the surface).
The point being that if it can be that bad with a grey surface, it will be worse with a black surface.