Do you like your kids rare or well done?

Australian celebrity chef Matt Moran cooked a meal of lamb loin in a scorching summer car at Sydney’s Bondi Beach this week to show parents just how dangerous it is to lock their kids in a vehicle this holiday season.

After roasting the lamb in a car parked in the sun that reached over 75 degrees, Moran said the estimated cooking time wasn’t necessary.

“If anything, that’s a bit overcooked there,” he said as he slices the meat, shown in a video named "The Unconventional Oven" by Kidsafe Australia. “That is so hot, it’s like an oven. To me, that is bullshit. Can you imagine if you were stuck in there for two hours?”

“Who would have thought the unconventional oven would be a car. Now that lamb loin is been sitting there for over an hour and a half - and it’s absolutely cooked all the way through.”

The father of two said he was “absolutely gobsmacked” that about 5,000 kids have to be rescued from hot cars in Australia each year.

Children are particularly at risk if left alone in a car this summer where temperatures can rise quickly, said Kellie Wilson, spokesperson from childhood injury prevention organisation Kidsafe.

“Children can lose fluid very quickly and suffer from dehydration and even life-threatening heatstroke if they’re left unattended in cars. The temperature inside a parked car can reach dangerously high temperatures, some 20 to 30 degrees higher than the outside temperature.”

Although some cases of children locked in cars were accidental, such as the carer forgetting the child was with them or newer cars automatically locking while kids were still inside, some parents left their child in vehicles intentionally while they ran errands or to let their baby sleep.

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