Cooking with your Car

Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine - http://www.wisebread.com/cooking-great-meals-with-your-car-engine-the-heat-is-on

The days of taking cross-country trips with the whole family may be pretty much gone, but there are still opportunities to do a bit of cooking while you are driving. I thought this might be amusing for foodies - it came up on a car group.

[Jenise]

Bill, when I was a child staying with my grandmother for a weekend, my great uncle (her brother) showed up in his cement truck to deliver our dinner main course: a canned ham that he'd had strapped to the manifold of his truck all day. It was baked and ready to go!

I remember thumbing through that book years ago. Never had the guts to try any of the cooking techniques, though.

This reminds me of another sub-specialty: cooking in your dishwasher.

I don't have any recipes on hand, though (...and I may be perfectly happy to continue living in ignorance).

This was discussed on Car Talk on NPR some years ago. Click and Clack (the Tappet Brothers) had some sage (and even onion) advice on this subject.

Dishwasher cooking. I definitely do NOT want to go there!

-Paul W.

How about convenient drinking from a car part?
When my creative-bordering on eccentric-older brother was a teenager, he re-routed one of his windshield washer hoses down through his glove compartment (and I guess blocked the other somehow) and filled the washer fluid container with some elixer or another. When he hit the button for the window washer, he could fill a glass from the driver seat. You have to admit, pretty inventive.

Dishwasher cooking. I definitely do NOT want to go there!

Salmon: http://www.salon.com/nov96/salmon961118.html
Lasagna: http://www.partselect.com/JustForFun/Dishwasher-Lasagna.aspx

It's a, um er, moist-cooking method.

Dishwasher cooking. I definitely do NOT want to go there!

Salmon: http://www.salon.com/nov96/salmon961118.html
Lasagna: http://www.partselect.com/JustForFun/Dishwasher-Lasagna.aspx

It's a, um er, moist-cooking method.

I've done the salmon in the dishwasher... a long time ago when I lived in NYC and had kitchenette. It came out pretty good!

I think "alternative cooking methods" are fun. I definitely would eat something cooked on a manifold (as long as it was cooking DIRECTLY on the manifold...LOL).

Not forgetting the old Class A amplifiers which fry eggs to perfection

Not forgetting the old Class A amplifiers which fry eggs to perfection

I'd be wary of putting foil wrapped food on mine as the heat sinks of the transistors are exposed and a short circuit can ruin your whole day. They used to have black plastic insulators over them, but they put out so much heat running to such a high level in class A that those melted and deformed long ago.