How To Cook on Your Car Engine While Driving

1. Edward
   November 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

   I have a great story about someone cooking a burrito on top of a copier fuser.

2. crisplinen
   November 30th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

   i wanna try this one day

3. Ali S.
   November 30th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

   A friend and I used to do something like this during winter whenever we got stuck in the snow. He'd always bring some noodles and a thermos of water and using the heat provided by the radiator and engine we would have hot ramen noodles while we took turns digging ourselves out of the snow with shovels. Good times.

4. Lars
   November 30th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

   Try to do that in a G-wiz

5. beast1994
   November 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

   wat i find funny is truckers have been doing this for years and years. we also cook sauseges and hot dogs. we just put it on our exaust manifold or turbo

6. whitcwa
   November 30th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

   This technique was covered by magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanix in the 1950's and 1960's. It is a lot harder today because of cramped engine compartments and heat shields. The radiator doesn't get hot enough.

7. artbot
   November 30th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

   When I worked at a parking equipment company some 30 years ago, our installation guys would show up every morning with breakfast burritos wired onto their work truck's engine block. They'd pop the hood and have breakfast in our warehouse. Seemed like such a normal thing to do for some reason.

8. raina_c
   December 1st, 2008 at 12:28 am

   Very clever.

9. Sofar
   December 1st, 2008 at 3:34 am

   Judging by the amount of motor oil coating the underside of my hood, I don't think anything I put under there will be edible for long.

10. Frau
    December 1st, 2008 at 11:12 am

    I have an older 50's vehicle. I also have a cook book titled Manifold Destiny, which I recieved as a graduation gift in 1989. I have used it many times on many trips around the state.
    It really helps to have a big block V8 for cooking. Econocars just dont cook cinnamon rolls or hot dogs, the way a big block V8 can.
    The shape of th V lends to a very nice cradle to put items in. And premade or parcooked items work best.

11. judebach
    December 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    my old man did this 50 years ago on the exhaust manifold
    of our old clunker.

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