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Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!
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31 Reddit comments about Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!:

u/stadiumrat · 26 pointsr/Cooking

Manifold Destiny. It's an entire cookbook dedicated to cooking on your hot engine block on long drives.

Manifold Destiny

u/walkswithwolfies · 22 pointsr/europe

In America some people use their car engines for cooking:

https://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/1416596232

u/ImALittleCrackpot · 18 pointsr/talesfromtechsupport

There's even a cookbook for it called Manifold Destiny.

u/StumbleBees · 10 pointsr/smoking

It looks like the smoke just heats the box and doesn't come into contact with the meat. But still...

Try this instead. We used to cook baked potatoes and a pork tenderloin in my buddies Seventy-something Dodge Dart on out way up to the mountain campsites.

u/b4xt3r · 5 pointsr/EatCheapAndHealthy

Are you travelling by car? If so pick up a copy of this book. You would believe how efficient cooking on your car engine can be. Really.

u/mrsedgewick · 5 pointsr/Justrolledintotheshop

Don't think of it as a trial. Think of it as your manifold destiny.

u/wiz0floyd · 4 pointsr/MealPrepSunday
u/flipz444 · 3 pointsr/mildlyinteresting

My friends dad actually wrote a full size book on this subject. Manifold Destiny

u/Sunfried · 3 pointsr/theydidthemath

You should write a sequel to Manifold Destiny.

u/26pt2miles · 3 pointsr/AskReddit

http://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/1416596232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253299394&sr=8-1

Manifold Destiny... how to cook on the engine of your car.

I expect that this is not exclusive to dead heads, I'm sure there are some Phish fans that do this, and I'm sure there are some people who live out of their cars that do it too... But I respect your decision to turn away hot chocolate cooked on an engine.

u/vwstig · 2 pointsr/cars

I actually bought this cookbook for that at a library book sale! I've yet to actually try anything though.

u/lordwumpus · 2 pointsr/mildlyinteresting

You can cook a potato on the road: wrap in tin foil, place in a hot, secure part of the engine compartment, and cook for about, oh, 100 miles.

http://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/1416596232

(You probably shouldn't actually try this)

u/speleo_don · 2 pointsr/electronics

This made me think about a classic:

http://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/1416596232

Methinks if you are creative, this problem can be solved...

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/WTF

Ha, which reminds me of this totally serious cookbook, Cooking on your car engine

Great for long road trips and for the palate that likes the taste of oil.

u/Leberkleister13 · 2 pointsr/WTF

Always wanted to do this. Friend had this book when I was younger, still think about it. Came back into print & got a copy a couple of years ago. One day.

u/GeenMachine · 2 pointsr/LifeProTips

There is this book "Manifold Destiny".

^It's ^a ^cookbook. ^^It's ^^a ^^cookbook!

u/RhodiumHunter · 2 pointsr/vandwellers

Engine Burritos

These are a staple of road trips, at least from my crowd. But perhaps you've never heard of them. The basic idea is to use your engine's heat to warm or cook food. Burritos are the most common, but I imagine you could use hot pockets or other frozen food depending on what you have under the hood.

So you unwrap a freshly bought burrito of some kind, or you take one that's in some state of thawing because you bought it 4 hours ago and you wrap it with two layers of heavy duty aluminum foil. Then you place or wire it on the engine and go for a drive. 1.5 hours or less (for more thawed food) and you have a meal. Here I'll usually top with salsa, sour cream, or guac and eat a whole pickled jalapeño on the side. I usually take a frisbee, turn it upside down, add a paper plate, and eat off that. Easy cleanup.

One good tip from the book Manifold Destiny was to scout out likely food cooking places on your engine, and ball up some aluminum foil and stuff it in place, then close the trunk. The foil balls will squish down to reveal how much space is available to fit foil packets.

Something I just thought of was that (some of) you vandwellers have it easy, because you can remove the center console to add and remove food without going outside into the weather. (I would pull over, not try to do this on the fly. You'll probably accidentally drop something valuable out on the interstate at 65 mph even if you had a helper.)

You want to place the food on the engine itself, and not on top of the air cleaner (too cold) or on top of the cat (way too hot, I had a car with the catalytic converter right inside the engine compartment)

I was able to tuck a package between the intake manifold and the engine on my last car. It was underneath the spark plug wires so it kinda held it in place. On other cars I've used thin solid copper wire to bind the package in place. Once I taped an MRE entree to the radiator coolant hose and drove for 4 hours. Since it only needed to be warm it worked out OK. But that was an MRE (Meals Rejected by Everyone).

For cans, I think the advice was to punch a hole in the top so things don't explode, wrap it in foil to protect from grease and oil, and stash under the hood. Obviously, it's important to make sure the cans will fit before you slam the hood.

Another time where I did some actual cooking, I had prepared a hamburger foil packet (a/k/a hobo meal, boy scout campfire dinner, etc) and stashed it on the engine when I left in the AM. Three hours later (125 miles, there was some traffic) it started smelling really good, but I pressed on another hour to my destination and found it overcooked.

I think I paid $25-30 or so for the book at the time because it was out of print. I thought that was a bit of a ripoff, because it's a pretty lightweight and lighthearted read. It's back in print so it's a bit cheaper now. Also there is a kindle edition. But i'm only going to give it a light recommendation. Here's the entry on worldcat, maybe you can find a local copy at a library to borrow.

u/verdegrrl · 2 pointsr/cars

That does sound awkward. Ever give any thought to this? ;)

u/Notthebuddha · 2 pointsr/Frugal

Grocery Store and Manifold Destiny.

u/autowikibot · 1 pointr/vandwellers
	


	


	

Manifold Destiny (cookbook):

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>Manifold Destiny is a 1989 cookbook (ISBN 0679723374), its updated 1998 edition (ISBN 0375751408) and a 2008 update (ISBN 1416596232) on the subject of cooking on the surface of a car engine. It was written by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, a photographer and a travel writer who were also accomplished rally drivers. Though neither edition remained in print for very long, the book is considered something of a cult classic in the American culinary scene due to its unusual subject matter, combining local specialties ("ready-boughts") with recipes designed with various regional and ethnic inspirations in mind, as well as evaluations of representative cars available at the time of their suitability as cooking equipment. A measure of its cult status can be found on Amazon.com, where a search in May 2007 revealed that used copies of the book sold for four to ten times the cover price of the book. In addition, despite its somewhat humorous tone, it is often cited as the primary (or even only) reference on the subject of car engine cooking.

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u/pwolter0 · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Not sure, but I'm sure this book could tell you.

u/tefleon · 1 pointr/Frugal

Take a copy of this book and report back the results.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/1416596232

u/Catch_22_ · 1 pointr/CherokeeXJ

You mean you don't keep honey mustard in there?

Maybe this will help:
http://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/dp/1416596232

u/Notevenspecial · 1 pointr/DIY