Has anyone tried cooking in their engine whilst travelling?

Denise · Senior Member

Has anyone tried cooking in their engine whilst travelling?

Gary and Kerry · Guru

Ive warmed pies,pasties and sausage rolls wrapped in alfoil and placed in the engine bay, works a treat.

Denise · Senior Member

A friend told me last night of a cookbook written for engine cooking some years ago!
I met old blokes in Darwin who used to heat tins of beans etc in there and Landrover I think had a basket gadget to put stuff in.
I suppose a bit of fencing wire would do the trick ,also I think there was a pressure cooker which attached and ran the radiator water through it to cook. >>>>If you try tins, remember to puncture the tin first or you'll have an explosion under there..>>>>>> you'll probably run off the road in all the excitement! I think I'll try some spuds in foil ....Cheers :)

Cruising Granny · Guru

Ha ha ha - I thought you meant cooking your engine while you're travelling.

The answer is no, but no one sets out to cook their engine while travelling, do they?
Does that mean you have "Gordon Blue" under you bonnet?
Bon apetite'.

al · Senior Member

Cruising Granny wrote:

Ha ha ha - I thought you meant cooking your engine while you're travelling.

The answer is no, but no one sets out to cook their engine while travelling, do they?
Does that mean you have "Gordon Blue" under you bonnet?
Bon apetite'.

Hey granny
Should that be
BONNET APETITE !

AL

dave06 · Guru

not on the car but on the dozer, I used to cook my tucker on the manifold just next to the turbo quite often, I knew a bloke who cooked a roast in that fashion complete with spuds and greens

Wombat 280 · Guru

There was a early model car that actually had a steamer and dry cooker fitted as standard equipment .

A family recently were on TV that are doing a world trip in a car with onboard engine bay cooking appliances that came out as standard in their day . I thoink one was a steamer jacket which was fitted to the top tank of the radiator

dave06 · Guru

I heard about that one a long time ago, never actually seen one, the bloke who cooks his roast had a home made setup that bolted on the end of his outlet manifold, he reckoned the biggest trouble was too much heat, apparently the ground speed of the vehicle came into it as far as heat went, he was very proud of his setup

Smokeydk · Guru

There was a chap..that had a TV show.......real dry speaking chap....who rigged up a cooker under the bonnet of his old HX holden..few years back

Denise · Senior Member

Those of you who have tried it, do you get a taint of engine smell in the food at all?

dave06 · Guru

no smell at all because I use only the heat from the manifold and the tucker is wrapped in alfoil or something similar, if the engine was covered in grease and or oil then I would suspect a smell would permeate, I had dust problems with the dozer but I used to use aluminium containers then wrapped that in alfoil with a good seal

the biggest problem I had was keeping my tucker bag on the platform of the dozer from sliding off and going under the tracks thereby flattening my thermos and tucker

justcruisin01 · Guru

Saw a bloke heating his solar shower bag on top of the motor with bonnet lowered after he had parked at camp , said it works well.

-- Edited by justcruisin01 on Saturday 27th of February 2010 01:15:05 PM