Australian woman frys an egg in her backyard on a scorching hot 40C day

Australia is famous for its stunning beaches, unique wildlife and scorching summers, quintessentially enjoyed lazing along the coastline or sipping drinks in the shade of a backyard.

But one woman has taken the internet by storm with her novel way of making use of the nation’s harsh lightning bolts: frying an egg.

A TikTok video shows a woman lathering up a pan with butter and placing it on hot cement bricks in her backyard on a 40C day.

Then he cracked an egg into the pan and let it sit in the sun until moments later it was fully cooked.

Once fried, he went back inside to finish preparing his lunch: an egg and barbecue sandwich.

The trick was widely praised, with many saying it was a good way to save electricity.

“Only in Australia,” said one person.

“I’m just telling everyone there are no stoves in Australia, they have to [sic] do this,’ added another.

Someone else quipped, “I also love cooking eggs on the hood of my car.”

However, others couldn’t look past a piece of shell that accidentally fell into the pan while cooking.

No one talks about how he got a piece of the shell in the egg? a fourth commented.

After leaving the egg to simmer in the sun, the woman returned to find it completely fried.

Another said: ‘The eggshell… Brother, take out the eggshell… THE EGGSHELL.’

Australia is well below the world’s hottest countries (Mali tops the list with an annual average of 28°C), but its summer sun is up to 10 percent hotter than some countries in the Northern Hemisphere.

This is because, due to Earth’s elliptical orbit, the southern hemisphere gets closer to the sun in summer than those on the other side of the equator during the same season.

However, although Australia’s average annual temperatures are moderate, the country has some of the highest levels of ultraviolet radiation in the world due to its proximity to the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica.