Manifold food

[pflaming]

I posted this question on the truck side also.

Farmers used to put their lunches on the tractor manifold for a hot noon meal. Told my daughter I was going to do that when I drove the truck from CA to Indianapolis. She said she read where people did that with meat loaf, ribs, chuck roasts, turkeys.

Anyone on the forum tried this or have a recipe source for this means of cooking while on the road?

[TodFitch]

http://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/0375751408

[Plymouthy Adams]

nah..but a well placed slab of limburger cheese will go a long way down the road...some grumpy ole man threw a fish in back of a neighbors travelall...

[Joe Flanagan]

Somewhere there is a great one-liner here. I just haven't figured out what it is.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Joe...great in-liner maybe...

[Don Coatney]

http://inventorspot.com/articles/your_tailpipe_10416

[james curl]

When I was in the Army we had a Dodge 3/4" as the como vehicle. We were traveling in a convey and stopped for a relief brake. My driver decieded that we would be stopping for lunch in about 45 minutes so he put a can of beans and franks between the head and intake manifold over the exhaust manifold saying I am going to have a hot meal at lunch. The convey did not stop in 45 minutes like he thought we would and continued on for about another 45 minutes before we heard a loud bang and started to smell burning bean and franks. No one would help him clean up the 3/4 ton when we got back to the motor pool, what a mess under the hood. So remember if you heat canned goods on your engine stop often and check the progress because the seam will burst in the can when the critical temperature and pressure is reached.

[Joe Flanagan]

Laughing out loud over that one, James.

[PatS....]

I used to haul asphalt and we would sometimes bury a beef roast under the back of the load just inside the tailgate.

Inside an old Wear-Ever cast aluminum roaster covered in 3 layers of tinfoil.

About 325 degrees or so.

2 1/2 hours later, a hot roast beef on a bun.

Nice on a cool fall day.

[Joe Flanagan]

And no annoying asphalt taste?

[old rat 49]

An old metal canteen with a pressure relief hole in the lid for liquids and a military canteen cup for other stuff. The cup handle can usually hang on something. Done it many times during a 23 year Army career. Think of it more as heating and not cooking.

[bobjob55]

I worked in a commercial nursery for 10 years... the guys would double wrap there burritos in aluminum foil .. set it on the exhaust manifold ,, turn it once ,, 30 min. later -- a hot burrito... had them all the time ... no bad taste ..

of course they also used to cook fresh goat meat on a plowing disk over a open fire .. that tasted good also..

[Uncle-Pekka]

  Don Coatney said:

That is one genious period accessory I absolutely MUST have!

Edited April 17, 2010 by Uncle-Pekka