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Caroline1
Oct 28, 2010 07:55 AM
Utilizing engine heat to cook things is probably as old as internal combustion engines! Or at least as old as for-the-home aluminum foil. I remember people talking about cooking their food by wedging aluminum foil packages of food on their engine block as far back as my childhood in the 1930s and '40s. But buying ready made containers intended for such use is probably relatively new. Baked potatoes, roast beef, tuna casserole, hot dogs, hamburgers... it was all engine-heat-cookable.
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Caroline1
Nov 9, 2010 04:10 PM
I never did, but some family friends made a 4 hour drive and strapped a brisket wrapped in several layers of aluminum foil and packed with onions and whatever to the head of their motor for the trip and said it was delicious when they got there. Seems to me it was a camping trip to Grand Canyon, or wherever. I think they did fish on shorter trips. It's basically the same as cooking anything "en papillote," except you put it in aluminum foil instead of parchment and cook it on your engine instead of in the oven. Just about any en papillote recipe should work. Heat is heat! Well, within reason. '-)
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re: Chemicalkinetics
bushwickgirl
Oct 28, 2010 02:22 AM
While an intriuging idea, and I have seen slightly less high tech methods of manifold and engine cooking employed or attempted, people with too much time on their hands come up with this stuff.
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Chemicalkinetics
Oct 28, 2010 07:40 AM
It is one thing to try to do this as a fun project. It is another thing to actually try to sell this thing -- if they are really trying to sell it....
What if I have a 5 min commute? What if I have a 1 hour commute? Won't the burger cooked very differently? On top of all these, what about the restriction putting on the exhaust pipe? Won't that reduce the efficiency of the engine? The lost of engine efficiency will probably outweigh the energy saved from cooking a burger.
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re: Chemicalkinetics
bushwickgirl
Oct 28, 2010 08:00 AM
All these issues and more, Chem, and that's why I'll stick with my pots and pans...
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re: Chemicalkinetics
ZenSojourner
Oct 28, 2010 02:53 AM
Tim Taylor?
Remember the episode they had about cooking with power? Made a grilled cheese sandwich with a blow torch, and cooked something or other on an engine block. I'm pretty sure it had tarragon in it . . .
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bushwickgirl
Oct 28, 2010 04:17 AM
Oh yes, Home Improvement, very funny show. I liked the episode were he really souped up the dishwasher...
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re: bushwickgirl
ZenSojourner
Oct 28, 2010 04:49 AM
Here it is: Cooking on the Job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tX852...
LOL!
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bushwickgirl
Oct 28, 2010 05:07 AM
Haha, that grilled chese looked good, nice torching technique. Was that a tub of Shedd's Country Crock?
I think the take away here is that where there's random heat and flame, there will be cookin'; engine manifold, exhaust, blowtorch, 55 gallon drum, dishwasher, clothes iron, radiator, it's all good.
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re: bushwickgirl
ZenSojourner
Oct 28, 2010 05:18 AM
I do believe that WAS a tub of Shedd's.
The Man's Kitchen is on youtube there somewhere.
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cannibal
Oct 27, 2010 02:58 PM
my friend had a compartment on the intake manifold of his jeep wrangler for putting food. it was basically an aluminum box with a lid. there were four of us in the jeep and the other two didn't want to put any food into the compartment because they thought it was dumb.
when we got to the camp site, and we were getting ready to eat our chicken that had cooked in a little italian dressing the two nay-sayers were really kicking themselves :)
by the way...the chicken was in a glass pyrex with a lid inside of the aluminum housing in the engine bay. I have no idea where he picked it up, but it was definitely awesome.
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