Would be quite easy, if one was to use an oe cast iron manifold with the warm air box still attached
The fridge might be more difficult
ATB
Simon
Has anyone fitted an oven box in their engine bay?
I bought a couple of cold sausage rolls from the farmers market at lunchtime. When I arrived back at work they were pretty warm even sitting in their
carrier bag in the passenger footwell.
Hmm...
Salmonella anybody?
Not yet, but now you mention it.......
Would be quite easy, if one was to use an oe cast iron manifold with the warm air box still attached
The fridge might be more difficult
ATB
Simon
They did something like this on Topgear with a tuned lada i think, anyone remember that?
think they were cooking on the heat after some track laps ! 
As my memories goes they had 3 cars (one being the lada) with a different meal under each bonnet. The conclusion was that predictably it wasn't a good idea and didn't work.
read 'manifold destiny'.
an entire book devoted to cooking on an exhaust manifold
hugh fearnley-whittingstall uses it as reference material in a cook on the wild side, where he's in his landy.
his conclusion was it was a good way to make crap food too!
nice idea though
tom
I love it, I have installed one in my van. I just need to find a good mix of herbs to complement the diesel aftertaste and I'm going to market
with the idea, fennel sounds favourite so far.
I cant wait to get my manifold mounted grill pan and my exhaust can fish smoker.
My old boss at Ford had a wee story of a similar nature.
He was involved in developing the cooling system for the early Capri's, which they used to carry out in the desert in Morrocco.
Away from the hotel at the test site there was a distinct lack of restaurants/cafe's where they could grab a meal at lunchtime, but a grocery
shop in a nearby village had shelves stacked with Heinz finest products. The tins had been there for a while, tho'
Of course, back then tins usually didn't have sell by dates, so the engineers were quite happy to buy the various foods on offer - mostly soup an
beans - even though it was obvious they had been on the shelves for a few years. Their only problem was how to heat the contents.
One bright spark suggested using the exhaust manifold of the Capri and they quickly discovered that the port spacing was exactly right for wedging a
can of beans in!
So they duly wedged said cans and had hot beans and soup for lunch after completing their morning tests. The tests went on for 3 weeks and the
engineers were quite happy with their basic, but hot meals.
The store owner was also very pleased at these guys showing up because he'd managed to shift all his old stock. So he promptly re-stocked with
fresh tins expecting continued business from them. Unfotunately, the day after he'd re-stocked the team finshed testing and went back to the UK!
My first car was a Austin A40 and i used it to drive to Cornwall to go surfing I made up a wire cage and wrapped up a big jacket potato in tin foil
after a five hour drive and a surf the best thing and the envy of most on the beach was a hot jacket potato
Barrie
Once put a kipper on a cousins manifold after his wedding but he didn't approve ? Can't think why!
I must have been doing something wrong then. On way back from Flamigoland yesterday, my 4 month old daughter got very hungry and very vocal. We
stopped at the bottom of Sutton Bank. I was wondering how to heat her jar of foul mush when realised the engine bay will be nice and hot. I found a
hot area, sat jar on but even after what seemed like ages it had hardly warmed up!! I ended up haveing to put heaters on full blast inside car and
hold the jar against the vent - that soon warmed it up. She fell asleep just after i had finished it (awkward at 4 months!!!! Must be a female
trait!!).
I need to find a way of getting the jar closer to exhaust manifold next time (not as easy as it sounds in a V6 new shape Mondeo).
When I worked on a farm in essex, I did this quite a bit.
On the Massey Ferguson 3070 that I was driving most days at the time, there was a nice baked potato sized niche on top of the turbine housing of the
turbo.
We also happened to grow a lot (about 4000 tonnes) of potatoes! Each morning I took some tinfoil in with me , picked fresh spud up from the harvester
and wrapped it and put it on it's niche on the turbo. Really ragging the daylights out of the tractor cooked it nicely (though not very evenly,
chrred one side and a tad raw the other!) by 11:00 breaktime! A fork and some butter in the cab with me completed the impromptu snack!
Was all very good until a) one day I forgor the spud and somebody else took the tractor off hedgecutting! Came back smoking a lot with a very charred
spud!! and b) one day I was REALLY working it hard, and then noticed when I went to get the spud that the ally foil had melted and run down the side
of the engine block!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by DarrenW
I need to find a way of getting the jar closer to exhaust manifold next time (not as easy as it sounds in a V6 new shape Mondeo).
All you need is an extra large header/expanion tank with a large cap to allow access and there you have it, one pressure cooker. Spuds cooked with anti freeze might not taste too good though.
My brother in-law and his wife are based aroud namibia (they move a lot) and they regularly go off on photo safaris for a few months at a time. they
use the bonnet of the landrover (with a frying pan on it) for cooking during the day! apparently takes next to no time to fry an egg
You're all cooking the wrong stuff.
I'd buy a transit and make coque au van
I'll get me coat
Cheers
Chris
quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
You're all cooking the wrong stuff.
I'd buy a transit and make coque au van
I'll get me coat
Cheers
Chris
frying eggs on landys?
why do you think the wings are flat?
it's only the purposeful ones that have them though. there's no flat wings on a disco, poncy things!
tom
oh, and chris, lmao
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