engine block cooking

i want to know. know one i have met besides my dad has ever cooked any thing on a engine block. i haven't done it myself, but i have cooked two hot pockets on a black and yellow 1963 California license plate. i just put them under a very hot halogen track light. took a while, but it got the job done.

 

There were actually cook books about this subject which gave hints on where to and what to cook when doing the culinary thing under the hood. Mostly had to do with camping and hunting trips.

 

Not sure if you call it cooking, but back when military rations were in metal cans (C-rations) instead of plastic and I was driving in convoy I'd take a can of beans, stew, etc., make a small hole in one end to vent it and wire it on the engine exhaust manifold at one rest halt and remove it at the next to have hot chow.

 

My uncle works construction and cook stuff on his cat. he just ****s it in tin foil and lets it heat up!

 

he ****s his cat???

 

I remember when the Hot Rod magazine guys put some miles on Billy Gibbons Cadzilla, they were cooking hot tamales on the engine.

 

in tin foil

 

My dad hauled equipment on the alaska pipeline he cooked off the manifold alot
My buddy just bought a snowmobile [older] with a food warmer on the header

 

hey JYK- i think fast30coupe's uncle should read your signature

 

do you know if any are in braille?

 

Used to heat canned food up on my Jeep manifold while trail riding and camping as a kid. A can of Spaghetti-O's taught me that you need to make sure you vent them first. Clean up ****ed.

 

Here ya go-
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bo...Q000000630-_-Manifold Destiny-_-9781416598176

 

I've cooked some good meals on a Model A Ford manifold. Marinate some stewing beef overnight, peel some potatoes, onions and carrots, wrap tightly in foil, and wire it to the manifold. You can start to smell it after about ten miles. It is fully cooked after about 30-35 miles (that would be about an hour in Model A time...). If not, re-wrap, rewire, and drive around the block a couple more times. What leaks out onto the manifold usually burns off after a while. Unwrap, salt and pepper to taste and enjoy! You can actually buy a manifold cooker from Snyder's 2010 catalog.

 

thanks for telling me the right place to cook the food. i can't really see, so it would be hard to find it myself.

 

thanks alot you guys. no one at my school knows how to do it. i am pretty sure their manafolds are covered with plastic shrowds and h**** symbols. i edited that because my mom taught me not to cuss. the h word is the worst of them all.

 

Is that the Honda word?

 

hahahahaha!!

 

and his nephew brags about it

 

Reading the heading reminded me of how some of the old NASCAR guys would dig a big hole, toss a new block in it, then BBQ it. Seasoned the cast iron.
There. How to do engine block cooking.

 

I've warmed up canned soup on the manifold of the tractor several times, never done any car cookery. I've also made fish in the dishwasher. Wrap fish, ****er and ****es in several layers of tinfoil, put it in the fishwasher along with the dishes, and when the dishes are finished, so are the fishes.

 

Me too. Worked good except for that one time I forgot the vent hole and had beenie weenie all over the engine compartment of my jeep. My driver was not pleased......

 

yep, shhhh! in my shop, that is a 5$ cuss word.

 

that is awsome! can you do it like a bad*** and have the fish come out on the plate ready to eat?

 

Thought everybody cooked on their engine. Dad had to stay at work until 5pm the night before Trout season opened, but he always had our dinner ready when we hit our favorite camp spot next to the river at 9pm. The stove was a 46 Dodge flat 6.

Some people fastened wire baskets on the engine so the food wouldn't fall off.

 

I used to drive 10 yard dump trucks.
Head for the asphalt plant, pick up 14 tons of 1/2 inch rock asphalt (at 350 degrees when it comes out of the chute) toss my burrito or whatever (wrapped in foil, of course) in the back, drive 20 minutes back to the jobsite, and voila! nice hot lunch...

 

ive cooked a can of soup on my slead in the back county

 

"he just ****s it in tin foil and lets it heat up" Man thats rough, and I thought I ate some tough meals, I just set mine on the exhaust manifold for a while before lunch.

 

I worked for the railroad and it was common to heat things up on the engines.

 

Back in the 70's during the van craze, we'd travel a lot to van fests, and we cooked on the motor all the time. My wife would tell me what needed more heat or less, and I'd place them strategically along the manifold. When our caravan group reached the van in, we'd "circle the wagons" and chow down. We made some really good meals that way!

 

WHAHAHHHHTTT! ****** cats is a crime!!