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For a Thanksgiving special, the Mythbusters test a legend that you can fully cook a meal using nothing but your car engine. Since they're engineers, not cooks, they bring in none other than celebrity chef Alton Brown.

Imagine how convenient this would be if it were true. You could drive to your relatives, and have a hot, freshly-cooked meal ready by the time you arrive!

First, the team acquired and older used car with lots of space under the hood. Then, Adam and Jamie took temperature readings from various parts of the…

The Mythbusters are back with another car myth. Your car may have keyless entry. Simply push a button on your key fob, and the door unlocks. It works on a high-pitched frequency that it sends to the car, wirelessly telling it to unlock.

So, what if you lock your key inside, and have your roommate at home press the unlock button on your spare key fob. Can that door-unlocking frequency transmit through the phone?

As Grant Imahara explains, no. The human voice operates at a range of about 85-255 hertz. The car fob works in the hundreds of megahertz range…