Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Has anybody here (successfully) cooked anything on your car's exhaust manifold?

Cooked, well more accurately warmed up, plenty of "C" rats on the exhaust manifold of a jeep or the exhaust manifold or in the heater of my M60 Tank. Also found that you could fill a .50 cal ammo can with "C" rat cans and hang it off the grill doors of the tank and in about an hour or so you had a nice warm meal courtesy of the exhaust. That is if you can accurately call "C" rats food.

I had a buddy give that a try on his bronco. Unfortunately his burrito interfered with his throttle linkage.

We frequently heated rations on both tank & jeep manifolds when in the field & no mess was available. Beat chocking down the Three Sisters of Death & Dog Hash cold.

Humm.... kinda like canned ham and Lima beans . Always preferred spiced beef. Pound cake on the other hand was to die for.

My wife and I had a '66 volkswagen bug when we had our first child. It was the air-cooled 4 cylinder.
We would often warm up the babys food by setting the glass jars on the exhaust manifold of the engine. About twenty minutes was all it took. We would just continue driveing until it was time to feed him...done that many many times.

Ah the good ol' days...

It's common to tie wire a can of soup or stew with a small hole poked in it on the manifold of a catapiller manifold. Also have eaten fresh roadkill venison cooked in blacktop.

I used to work with an ex-Navy guy who said they would cook food on the radar dishes on his ship.