Used to eat many a meal, MRE Beans and the like while in the army the bradley fighting vehicle we had was Cummins equiped It did a fine job of heating stuff up those german winters were hell. still remember what the cummings factory tech told us don't baby these engines the more you dog em the more they like it. Still have the blue C emblem he gave us glued to my tool box. Infantry soldiers make do with what they have to survive.

 

Shoot, since I got an '05, bet I could bake a cake in about 10 minutes according to my egt's.

Seriously, I used to cook all sorts of stuff on the intake and exhaust mainfold of my CJ5 years ago while hunting.

 

A few friends have made burrito cookers
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I do it all winter long. I throw those little cans of chili and beenie weenies on the exhaust manifold while I am out at a job. Takes a little while to get it hot but it does work. As for driving down the road, I have not really done any of that as my exhaust gets a little warm for it.

Jason

 

on my old ford, i used to cook pizzas, burritos, tacos, all sorts of stuff. people used to lauhg when id pull up somewhere, pop the hood, and grab a slice of pizza off before re-covering it and heading inside

 

I have done it alot in the past sometimes take a sock and put food inside tie it in then pull it out when you want it. It will warm can junk good but if you cool on the turbo you must put a hole it the can or the can will open itself if you know what I mean.
Works good if your parked and have a old US canten cup.
People look at you funny when your at the rest area with the hood up and truck running and ask if you need help but say no my coffee is about ready.
Jon

 

I've only reheated food double rapped in aluminum foil on construction equipment.

Some things to worry about is clean air (as opposed to exhaust) around your food. Diesel does not make a good flavoring. The other is forgetting about the food while doing something else. A baked potato in aluminum foil will turn to a large raisin-looking thing in about 6 hours on a front-end loader’s manifold.

 

LIKE rockkrawler...i too put burritos and mre's on my manifold (intake tho so not to cook too fast) whilst wheelin...works great, tastes the same...no need for stove on long trips....I do the Mojave trail every year and a couple of people thought i was nuts...i didnt puke or die during that trip...last year three more did it... courious how many will this year!!!!
cameron

 

In my Snowmobile catalogs there are containers that strap to the exhaust expansion chamber for putting food in them to heat up.
After a few days on a snowmobile everything smells like either 2cycle oil or beer anyway

 

When I was a kid we used to go camping in cabins from time to time. We would bake cakes and pies in a cardboard box on a wood stove. We did this by lining a cardboard box with aluminum foil and duck tape to secure it. The cardbaord wouldnt burn. The tape may melt away but the strings in it held it together. We set a few nuts on the wood stove to raise the pan off the stove. I bet the same thing would work if you made a heat pipe to it as the manifold is probably hotter than the wood stove. If ya burn just throw the box away

 

We have done this sporadically for the last 35 years or so. We have cooked roasts by seasoning them and putting cream of mushroom soup on the roast and wrapping it several times in aluminum foil and laying it on the intake on a gas engine or on the intake of the cummins and if it needs more heat tie it on with some wire or coat hanger on the exhaust for a short time and it turns out really good. We did this last month on a trip to Colorado around the Durango, Silverton, Ouray area and wrapped weiners, sausage etc in foil and put it on the intake and in an hour or two it was ready to stop and eat at a roadside park.

 

I have never cooked on one. However In high school way back up in the mts. of Eastern KY. I remember a couple good old farmers(the illegal type) used to place fresh weed in the air filter housing (outside the filter in the housing on a 62 chev.w/235 six). By the time they got to town it was ready to go,so to speak. If I remember right they said it would dry 8 or so ounces from the "holler" to town. (I bet it would work great on deer jerky)
Joe

 

Mmmm..Diesel smoked hot dogs....I can taste them now! These trucks just keep getting better and better!