I am from illinois and i love your show watch all the time. I heard that truck drivers cook their food on the top of their engines. Is this possible i would love to see this on the show so i hope i do if the is been done ok if not i hope to see it.

Well, its hot enough, but it probably won't taste very good. Seriously, hard to control the amount of heat reaching the food. Placed a ball of dough on the dash of my aluminum bread truck and it was edible 8 hours later, but I wouldn't make a meal of it! Engine block temperatures can easily cook an egg, it you don't mind 30W oil substituted for cooking oil (butter or bacon fat).

You may not cook a meal (seveal course), but you could heat up a sandwich, or the like. Just wrap it in several layers of heavy foil, and keep it away from the belts and hoses.

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You may not cook a meal (seveal course),

Yes you can!

There is actually a cooker called a "muff pot" for cooking with engine heat.

Yes, people have been doing this for decades. A complete beef roast will cook when wrapped well in aluminum foil and placed on the exhaust manifold. A three hour drive will turn out a perfectly done roast. Stop for a picnic lunch at the roadside table and eat it.

I know people who were doing this back in the 60's, and heard stories about it happening in the 30's.

There used to be accessory cook stoves made for the Model T. It's been done for most of a century. Alton Brown did it on the first year of his Feasting On Asphalt series,

There are parts of an engine that will get hot enough to cook something. The exhaust manifold is one place as well as the turbocharger down pipe on some diesel pickup trucks.

Wrap your food up with foil and tie it to the exhaust manifold or turbo with some bailing wire. Drive about 30 to 40 miles, you get the idea.


There is a cookbook called Manifold Destiny (although not in print anymore but used copies can be found on Amazon.com) which highlights on this subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Manifold...Engine/dp/0375751408

Ive done this but make sure you dont have an exhaust leek cause it makes it taste really funky. wouldnt suggest meat either. if you rap it in aluminium fiol acouple time its actually not bad if it doesnt vibrate off. that was my biggest problem.