Ever Try This?
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From: Dededo, Guam
Ever Try This?
Anyone ever try to cook food on your engine block? Or is this even possible. I heard long time ago that some of my buddies tried it with a frozen pizza but never said if it worked.
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From: Billings, MT
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I've never tried cooking on an engine, but I have reheated foods and kept foods warm. I've done this both on the pick-up listed below and in my work van. It works best with thinner and narrower foods. Hotdogs do pretty well.
BTW: This is my 460th post. How cool is that?! Man, what a glorious engine.
The Law
1989 F-250 HD 4x4
460, C6, BW 13-56, Sterling 10.25" (4.10:1), Dana 44 HD (4.09:1), twin K&N's, no muffler, stock lo-flo cat, Bosch Platinum Plugs (0.060") MSD 6A and TFI Blaster Coil
BTW: This is my 460th post. How cool is that?! Man, what a glorious engine.
The Law
1989 F-250 HD 4x4
460, C6, BW 13-56, Sterling 10.25" (4.10:1), Dana 44 HD (4.09:1), twin K&N's, no muffler, stock lo-flo cat, Bosch Platinum Plugs (0.060") MSD 6A and TFI Blaster Coil
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From: Louisville TN (Near Knoxv
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years ago when I was a little tike my Dad had a 1979 model A Kenworth with a Cat 406B engine. We would stop and get 4 or 5 burgers eat a 1 and put the rest in the cooler, when we got hungry we would stop & put the rest on the turbo and manifold with a tin cooking sheet he had it wired down somehow cover it with tinfoil and mosey down the road 4 about an hour then they were hot and ready to eat..
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From: The Big, Oregon
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Do a search on the popular booksites for Manifold Destiny. They give the cooking times in miles, not minutes. Many truckers actually do this, and I have seen it done with snowmobiles. I'll probably do it myself sometime soon.
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From: clementsport canada
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used to eat beans, soup, and other canned goodies that were cooked on the muffler of my snowmobile..... the 80 nordic worked great, throw a can on in the morning, and it would be good n hot for lunch... my 79 futura 400 ran a little hotter, dad blew up a can on it one day....
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From: Texas panhandle
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I used to warm up canned food on the exhaust manifold of the tractor. The time it took to heat food depended on how hard the tractor was pulling. I just took some wire and fashioned a basket to hold the can. You always want to punch a small hole in the can or it will blow up. Now days, on cold days, I put my windshield adhesive under the hood and it stays nice and warm. (I operate a mobile auto glass business.) This makes it a lot easier to apply and speedier cure time.
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From: Charleston, SC
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Many people have done it and still do it regularly. Try a search on the web for great recipes and times. Use the word manifold cooking instead of engine cooking which is quite a different thing 
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From: Warner Robins, GA
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 01-Dec-02 AT 10:02 PM (EST)]MREs heat up real nice. We'd throw them on the intakes of the L1011 (aka 4X4 Pickup) and it didn't take long. If you were going to leave them there for a significant period of time you may need to punch a small hole in the bag..otherwise, well it's a real pain to clean up beef stew from the engine compartment :-X23
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From: Smithton
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I used to work for a road construction company, and we used to heat food up on the big machines that lay down the base rock and concrete. It worked great; set it on the engine at about 11:00 and it was ready at noon.
You have to be careful though because sometimes it falls off. If you ever drive down I-70 just west of Topeka KS you will drive over my Pork Steak that fell into the concrete we were pouring.
You have to be careful though because sometimes it falls off. If you ever drive down I-70 just west of Topeka KS you will drive over my Pork Steak that fell into the concrete we were pouring.
i will search the net and see what i can find. i have always wanted to try this.
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From: Summit, NJ
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I've never tried it but it sounds like a great idea! I think there is actually a cookbook out there called the manifold cookbook. I believe Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble might have it online.
James Kern
1970 F250 4x4
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From: The Big, Oregon
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I have read that book before, hence my post to look it up, but I just searched to see if I could find it. I can't believe how much it is! Over $100! I thought the point of this was to be cheap, not have to give your bucks to a greedy fast-food chain. Maybe they had to pay for all the gas they used in it's development......
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