Cooking with your Car

Cooking with your Car

Paul
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By trebuchet03

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An Experiment with Cooking with your Car. Save time and electricity by recycling some waste heat!

Not 100% a project (unless I build something to hold the stuff in place). This is more of comic relief when a friend said that the next crazy thing I would do is figure out how to bake an apple in my car...

Menu:
Baked Chicken and Herbs
Italian Chicken
Red and Green Peppers and mushroom Noodles
Baked Potato Pieces
Baked Apples

Seasoned with butter, good olive oil etc. BTW - I love cooking :D

Place food on various parts under the hood (valve cover, exhaust heat shield, top radiator hose etc.). Drive for a certain amount of miles (cook by miles/speed instead of temp/time). And enjoy. After driving 100 miles I enjoyed some delicious herbed chicken while onlookers at the rest area gave some weird looks. After another 100 miles, I was home and the other chicken breast was done (only one at a time could cook at full heat on the EM).

The potatoes never got the full heat they needed to cook properly - other than that, everything was delicious and the car smelled great when I came to a stop :D

Apparently there is a book out there called "Manifold Destiny" -- I've yet to read it :P

By texas	2006-04-19 09:56:26
hey would you mind sending the recipes for that food b/c it looks really good! My email is man_named_oz@yahoo.com

By trebuchet03

2006-05-09 23:11:36

It's mostly improvised (I love cooking) :P But for this trip...

Chicken Breasts (two ways)
1. Wash and dry completely - cover in flower and salt
2. At herbs of your liking - I used basil and added some black pepper
3. Wrap in foil and place on exhaust manifold for about 100 miles (@70mph).
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1. Wash/Dry and marinate in Zesty Italian Dressing - I sliced it for easy road eating.
2. Add some chopped onion
3. Wrap in foil and place on exhaust manifold for about 100 miles (@70mph).

Noodles & Veggies
1. Chop some peppers, mushroom etc.
2. Break up some ramen noodles (or other thin noodle)
3. Make a tinfoil bowl and pour in some stock (beef, chicken, shrimp etc.)
4. I guess 100 or so miles would work on the valve cover (I like my veggies somewhat raw). I did 200 miles and the noodles were over done.

Apples
1. Core/halve Green Apples
2. Add 1 pat of butter and a scoop of brown sugar
3. Squish it back together and wrap
4. I did 200 miles on top of the upper radiator hose - it was still slightly raw, but good nonetheless.

By phardy	2006-07-15 21:49:56
ghetto-riffic defined

By trebuchet03

2006-07-16 18:34:02

If by ghetto you mean

"A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. The word historically referred to restricted housing zones for Jews; however, it now commonly labels any poverty-stricken urban area. "

or

"Originally, the section of a European city to which Jews were restricted. Today, commonly defined as a section of a city occupied by members of a minority group who live there because of social restrictions on their residential choice."

Then no... I don't see people of any ethnicity living in my engine bay ;)

By bur	2006-10-26 22:09:23
The actual owners manual for the 1956 Ford station wagon had an entire section on cooking on the engine. The Ford has a particularly nice 'shelf' on each side of the engine on the exhaust manifold for high temperature cooking. Directions for cooking an entire dinner were given.