Comments on: Miles for Dinner – Engine cooking https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800 Teaching the Ways and Means to Survive Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:53:52 -0400 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Ken https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800&cpage=1#comment-7611 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 22:00:37 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800#comment-7611 There is a very good cookbook on the subject of cooking on your engine block. It is “Manifold Destiny” which came out in 1989 (ISBN 0679723374), its updated 1998 edition (ISBN 0375751408) and a 2008 update (ISBN 1416596232). A lot of fun on long road trips.

]]> By: Ken https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800&cpage=1#comment-701 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:47:25 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800#comment-701 I would think that watery fluids would only evaporate on the engine block but fatty liquids might be a hazard, but I would think that it would take a large volume to be a danger.

]]> By: Lawrence https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800&cpage=1#comment-699 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:12:48 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800#comment-699 I’ve always been too scared to do it, as I have only considered cooking fish. The fear is that the juices from the fish will leak out onto the hot engine block!

]]> By: Ken https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800&cpage=1#comment-516 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:13:35 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800#comment-516 I cooked my ear of corn on a 4Runner manifold… modern cars don’t seem to have as much room as the old engine compartments which my today’s standards were quite cavernous.

]]> By: Arl San https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800&cpage=1#comment-513 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:39:29 +0000 https://survivaltek.com/?p=1800#comment-513 My daughter and I took a road trip up northern California. I saw a recipe book a while back and just remembered about engine cooking.

We drove a 4 Runner Truck. I used 5 sheets of foil sprayed with Pam. We successfully cooked salmon (buttered/lemon/salt/pepper).
We also kept precooked white rice on another spot of the engine.

We had two wonderful meals in Glacier Point in Yosemite and another meal in Tuolomme in our primitive campsite.

I wonder if anyone has tried this on a Toyota Corolla Car. If anyone knows which spot to use – please share. Thanks

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