Engine cooking

[Bisbonian]

I know this comes up on occasion but I didn't see anything here. On a Strom is there a doable way of cooking using engine heat while you're riding?

I've seen the little containers that you hook to your exhaust but I don't see a good way of mounting that on the Strom. Do you think that something stuck between the vee of the cylinders would get hot enough to cook? I've not talking roast beef or anything, just something like a gas station burrito.

Specifically I'm looking at the Vee.

[chris swann]

i use my method all the time . i take a store bought sausage roll or home made burrito or similar wrap and frezze them . double wrapped in tin foil . then when i go for a day long ride they work well in my little cooler bag too keep my drink cold . around noon i place it in the base of the vee of the motor , 20 minites or around 30 klm and you have a nice hot lunch . even on rough logging roads the roll will stay in place . flipping your lunch half way also helps

[Bisbonian]

That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!

[Jstrom]

I'd forgotten all about engine cooking. A good friend of mine who was a longhaul trucker used to cook his meals in the engine compartment of his big rig. I usually just stop and fire up the ole camp stove mostly to heat water for tea. Nothing like a nice hot cuppa tea, eapecially in the fall when its cooler. Think I'll give the frozen burrito or wrap technique a try next season.

[Toto]

There was actually a book out a few years ago with "manifold" recepies.
Can't remember the name.

[batmo]

8056On a trip last summer to Alaska this is how one of the guys prepared his meals almost every night. You might say his eating habits are questionable.

[Warhammer]

LOL! I think I'd be more worried about camping with a dude who eats a "bomb" burrito every night than I would be about how he heated it up!

[BgDadddy]

Warhammer,

How is it you always end up going there?? :hand:

[Warhammer]

Warhammer,

How is it you always end up going there?? :hand:

A wise man once told me, "know what you are and be that." :D

[batmo]

LOL! I think I'd be more worried about camping with a dude who eats a "bomb" burrito every night than I would be about how he heated it up!

We didn't let him near the fire and made sure his tent was down wind.

[Warhammer]

We didn't let him near the fire and made sure his tent was down wind.

:bom_laugh3: Those sound like very wise precautions!

[Keith Falkner]

There was actually a book out a few years ago with "manifold" recepies.
Can't remember the name.

Its name is "Manifold Destiny" and she is looking for it now.

Meanwhile, I look at the radiator hose on the right side of the engine and think of things I could do with that. Make a helix of copper tube, add two short pieces of hose, and there is a simple chamber to make food pleasantly warm. This would not serve for actually cooking stuff.

OK, here is the book.

Manifold Destiny was written by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, published by Villard Books, New York, 1989 and simultaneously by Random House Canada. It has 113 pages, and is a softcover book about 8x5 inches.

The book contains a lot of specific info and guidelines, but of course it predates our steeds and therefore does not mention them. There are many recipes, and of course the last instruction of each provides the amount of cooking ... in miles.

If you want your own copy, you may need the ISBN: 0-679-72337-4

Bon apetit!
Keith

[Toto]

thanx Keith
I probably won't buy it....but it was an interesting tid bit at the time.