Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images Crowds gather as a television crew tries to fry an egg in the glare from a new office building in the financial district on Sept. 4, 2013 in London.

A London journalist saved a bit on his gas bill when he successfully used the city’s newest public fryer—a skyscraper under construction at 20 Fenchurch Street—to cook his eggs. James Waterson, who first reported on the hot sun rays reflected off the tower, took to the street armed with eggs and a pan, nearly a week after a man said the reflected light from the “Walkie Talkie” tower had melted the exterior of his parked Jaguar.

“I was able to get a frying pan up to heat as quickly as you would on a hob and then fry an egg, which I ate for my lunch,” Waterson told NBC News.