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what ever iam driving around lunch time I will wrap the food in tin foil and put it on or near the exhust manifold to heat it up for lunch while I work. sometimes cook bacon,pork chop hamburger whatever I got with me for the day to eat for supper. does any body else do this?
 
That's actually a pretty good idea. I don't do it because I've just never done it. First time I ever heard of it, although I'm sure it's been going on forever, was back in the late '70's or early '80's on a show called "Real People". They had on a traveling sales man that showed how he did it. Driving down the road about lunch or dinner time, he'd put the foil encased food on the manifold, continue down the road for a half hour or however long, pull over and it'd be cooked to order. Did it every day. Fish, burgers, steaks and vegetables, full meals. Saved a ton of money, and ate what he preferred.

Good deal.

Mark
 
We had a sounding survey team come thru here a few years ago. (You know, lots of holes, wires, microphones, dynamite charges.) Those guys regularly heated canned foods like corned beef hash, soups, etc. A few years back there was a cookbook called "Manifold Destiny" with recipes for cooking on your manifolds.
 
When we still moldboard plowed everything, We would take a large potatoes and wrap them in foil and lay them along the manifold on the tractors. After a few hours the potatoes would be fully cooked/baked. In the real cold weather I would put them in my coat pockets after they where done. You could really thaw your hands out with the residual heat. Carried a few of those little packets of salt and pepper. Made for a good snack to warm up with.
 
had at least one milk truck driver that did that for breakfast and lunch. sometimes he'd forget about it and other drivers would pop the hood the next day and find his lunch.
 
When I was a kid, I read the "Little House" series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. One of them, "The Long Winter" took place in Minnesota as I recall, and they used to do the same thing. Hot, cooked potatoes in the pockets to make road trips in the wagon more suitable. In years past, I repeated that on a couple of Christmas hayrides behind the tractor. Christmas carols, cold wind in our faces, putting down the road, hands around hot potatoes in the coat pockets, potatoes for dinner afterwards.

Thanks for the memories. The "Little House" series, good for kids to read, a thousand times better than the show.

Mark
 
Yes, seemed to work quite well on the engine block of a Caterpillar D8K, easy access and hot food on a cold day was entirely possible. I would strap a cooler on this tractor every day, keep things cold in the summer until it was a half hour before lunch, take whatever I had in foil and lodge it somewhere near the manifold, as I remember, it would be hot in no time.
 
I've got a book here somewhere that shows a cooker that goes on a Model T manifold to cook while on the road.
I cooked a steak on a 64 Chevy PU manifold one time going up to Burrells Ford on the Chattooga River to camp. Had it wrapped in tinfoil.
Richard in NW SC
 
Way back in the last century, I worked for a leaf spring manufacturer. The draw furnaces emitted large quantities of steam at the unloading end. We fabricated mesh racks to fit over the openings, and early in the shift, these racks would be covered in lunch pails and foil wrapped packages. The guys could sit down to a nice hot dinner, instead of cold sandwiches. Just a little bit of night shift ingenuity
 
I work as a HVAC service/pipefitter service tech. depends where I'm at but I have heated many lunches on top of a steam condensate tank or the flue of a boiler. I can eat cold stuff but the same stuff warmed up is way better.
 
We're going to start reading those to our kids this winter. My wife has the set she grew up with and we read them together the first year we were married, I thought they were a lot of fun. Laura Ingalls wrote them not to far down the road from us and they have a little museum set up with Pa's fiddle and some of their other stuff. I liked the early part of the TV series as well.
 
Yep used to poke a hole in the lid and wire our C-Rats to the Amtrac manifold. Had to keep a eye on them so I would run with an inspection panel off, so the crew chief could watch them.
 
Years ago when I was a fisherman cooked just about everything on that 4-71 exhaust manifold from frozen buritos to fresh fish if it was in a tin can of if you could wrap it in foil it got cooked that way.
I also worked in a machine shop that had its own paint spray booth and drying oven and we would wrap our food in foil and hang it in front of the heat lamps. Worked well
 
Had a crew that would place burritos/tacos wrapped in foil into a pile of hot asphalt, while they were paving. They were always eating on the go as the paver wasn't supposed to stop. gobble
 
Remember chopped ham and eggs. I had a guy put a can of beans and weanies. On the manifold of a duce and half. When he left Dallas. It blew up somewhere between Dallas and Fort Hood. I had it parked at the other end of the motor pool.Made the young little private. Scrub the engine until the smell was gone.
 
When I drove truck in the winter time I would put those little single serving cans of soup and bean on the defroster for about two hours and they would be warm enough to eat.
 
Dad would speak of going to he bush wih his brothers and Dad to cut wood. They would take eggs along with them and cook them in the hopper of their Lister engine....soft boiled eggs for lunch!
 
In the Navy we used to cook in the engine room all the time. Since we had HP steam, that ran around 900 degrees, the nozzle block that throttled steam to the turbines was nice and hot. It also had a decent sized chamber in it that was open to the outside. About the only time there was a problem was when someone forgot to poke a vent hole in a can of porn-n-beans. When it exploded it sent beans everywhere. This happened about 6 months after I got onboard. When we deep cleaned on occasion, we were still finding beans in out of the way places a year plus later.
 
The Fugitive. Nemesis: Oct 13.1964.
Richard Kimble steals a sheriff's station wagon not realizing Gerard's son is hiding in the back.

During the episode Kimble puts cans of soup on the manifold to heat them and not show campfire smoke. Impresses kid.

Life imitating art or art imitating life?
 
I've been told by engineers that approximately 1/3 of the energy in a gallon of fuel goes out the exhaust pipe; 1/3 goes out through the radiator and 1/3 is transmitted to the drive wheels.

Haven't heard of any major developments that would change that ratio.
 
My great grandpa soldered up a homemade vessel that fit around the manifold of his Model T. He'd brew coffee in it.

A guy I worked with cooked something every day in the screed on the asphalt paver. He said he could cook anything but a cake - the vibrator on the screed would make the cake fall.
 
The first year my wife and I started our electrical contracting business, in the fall we got a bid on a large hog barn near milford Indiana in the fall. My wife used to work in the field with me doing electrical work. This was our first "big" job. We had a decent sized crew working up there. She would make hot ham and cheese sandwiches for us......in the hot box....by hot box I mean the heatbox used to heat up PVC conduit.....it worked pretty well.

We still laugh about those days....
 
While I was going to college I worked summers as a service man for a green pea combining crew. The pickup I drove had a 230CID Chevy engine in it. The fuel line was a perfect retainer to hold a can of soup against the valve cover. I has to keep the engine idling all the time since the two way radios we used at the time would drain then battery to the point where it would no longer start the engine is less than an hour. That location always kept the soup warm without overheating it. I also ran a sweet corn picker for a couple of years. I would cook an ear of corn on the exhaust manifold of the 1650 Oliver I was driving but that didn't work as well. I had to stop and turn the ear a couple of times or I would get burned corn on one side and cold on the other.
 
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