Old Car Cooking

[1937hd45]

My November-December 2001 Antique Automobile arrived today, nice issue lots of old race car stuff. The best part, in my opinion is the old photo inside the front cover. I've never seen or heard of anyone using an acetylene headlight as a stove.Does this work or was this a staged photo? My 1912 T has been converted to electric so I can't try this out.

[novaman]

There were two cookbooks published with recipes for cooking on your engine. I've tried to get a copy but they are no longer publishing them. I'll try to find the names of them again.

[novaman]

Found them.<P>Manifold Destiny: The One, the Only, Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!<BR>Chris Maynard Bill Scheller<P> Format: Paperback, 151pp.<BR>ISBN: 0375751408<BR>Publisher: Random House, Incorporated<BR>Pub. Date: June 1998<BR>Edition Desc: REV<BR> <BR>The second is the same title but Pub. date is Sept 1998.

[Bill Stoneberg]

Dont forget, it will take 500 or so miles to cook a chicken. Longer for a pot roast.

[ply33]

Hey Bill,<P>Shouldn't it take different mileage to cook based on the car? A Model T traveling 35 MPH would take over 14 hours to do 500 miles while your late 1950s Chrysler 300 could comfortably cruise at the rural interstate limit (say 75) and be there in less than 7 hours.

[Guest]

Have any of you heard of cooking in aircraft radio racks? Back in the '50s while flying cargo back and forth across the North Atlantic in C-54s, I used to put cans of beans and similar stuff in the radio rack before takeoff, and 3 or 4 hours later would have a hot meal. Sure beat the sandwiches and an apple we had in the standard issue box lunches.<P>All of this luxury went away with the demise of the vacuum tube radios. Of course the later, more modern aircraft had galleys. ~ hvs

[Bill Stoneberg]

Yes,<BR>It would probably take different time depending on the speed even the area you are in.<BR>When I was traveling the desert SW between Texas and L.A. back in the 70's those were the time I would use. This was with a modern car at 70 - 90 MPH. Now, if I was where HVS is, it would probably take longer. Mountains and cold make for slow cooking.<P>Howard, Sounds like some good cooking back then. You were probably the envy of the other airmen.<P>Eat Hardy....<p>[ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: Bill Stoneberg ]