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Can you cook a meal on your car's engine?

Ha Ha!:) Well yes you can!:) I use to do this back in 1976, when I was
working at a Car Wash and gas was about 35 cents a gallon:) In the
winter, we would keep one of our cars running for the heater... we would
sit in it to keep warm between customers coming in. Me and my friend
Craig liked to eat Honey Buns and such in the mornings. Or at lunch
sometimes one of us would go out and get some hamburgers. But,
inevitably... customers would come in just as we were ready to eat... So
we would keep some Aluminum Foil handy and we would wrap the food in
foil and stick it in the Exhaust Manifold to warm it up or to keep it
warm until we got a chance to eat. Hey! Craig and I invented this
Cooking Method! Where's our Royalty's!:)

Don

Can you cook a meal on your car's engine?
by Amy Hunter
Let's say you're ­road tripping your way across America. One
particularly flat st­ate offers unending views of th­e horizon, and not
one fast-food sign is in sight. No worries. Just throw some grub on the
car engine, and by the time you cross the state line, you've got dinner.

Cooking on your car's engine may not be the most efficient or economical
way to cook if you're just hanging out at home. You have to get on the
road to heat up the engine, and who wants to waste the gas money? But if
you're driving a long distance anyway, cooking on your engine provides a
quirky culinary challenge. Some foods are easier to prepare on your car
engine than others, but nearly any food can be heated up to a tasty meal.

Engines often don't seem like particularly clean surfaces, which is why
some people find the idea of using one as an oven unappetizing. But if
your engine is in go­od working order and you wrap your meal thoroughly
in aluminum foil, no one should ever suspect it was prepared under the
hood.

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