What’s your best recipe for the exhaust manifold cooker

[JTT3]

Forum over the years There has to be some great recipes to make lunch/supper while touring/camping. If you have some for meals or desert let me know. Please include approximate cooking times. One lesson I learned using the cooker was oven bags wrapped with tinfoil. It only took a few years to figure that one out. Still miss the distinct taste of hydrocarbons in pot roast prior to the bag trick, ha.
Have a great holiday season. Best regards JTT3

[JTT3]

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[Southfork Creek]

My friend in Calif said he made some weed brownies last year in his manifold cooker. Said it worked out well because after eating them everyone on the tour was too afraid to drive over 25 mph. LOL

[Mark Nunn]

I don't have a cooker or recipe. But, I'm curious. How does one clean it with the thing on your engine? Is something removable for cleaning?

[Oldav8tor]

The cooker just sets in place - easily removed. Some folks use cooking bags to reduce the mess. FWIW, the MTFCI has it's Manifold Cooker recipe book on sale right now for $10.

[MichaelPawelek]

Just tie some string around a hot dog and lower it into the radiator neck.

[Oldav8tor]

A friend of mine often serves peach cobbler from a manifold cooker at the Old Car Festival. In my view, the manifold cooker is especially good for re-heating foods....Meatballs are great - spaghetti - you get the idea.

[Marty Bufalini]

My professionally trained chef daughter once made a bacon wrapped herb pork loin in our cooker. Delicious!

[Bill Robinson]

There are some pretty good manifold recipes that have been submitted to our Tennessee T's website. Take a look;
https://tennesseets.weebly.com/manifold ... cipes.html

[John E. Guitar]

I've got one of these but never use it. I might try cooking Moqueca in it over the summer break.

[John Dow]

Meatball sandwich. Quantities may be adjusted as needed. Thaw frozen meatballs cut in half place in cooker with a jar of spagetti sauce. Drive the T until meatballs and sauce are hot. Cut a baguette (you know, a long skinny loaf of italian bread) in half about 90% of the way leaving a "hinge" on one side. With bread lying open flat on a cutting board spoon meatballs and sauce evenly on bottom half of the bread. Add slices of provelone, close up baguette and cut into 2-3" pieces. Serve with plenty of napkins! Easy and always a winner.

[Mark Gregush]

With the weather we have for most tours and length of time, I don't think I would trust cooking in one any more than to keep the food warm.

[Harry Lillo]

I have been really tempted to try some desert recipies, but mostly use ours to
reheat or finish cooking dishes like BBQ ribs, sliced potatoes with onions or chili.
On our last tour I put our ribs and potatoes on for the last 15 to 20 miles of the tour which
gave me about 30 to 40 minutes cooking time.
The last 5 miles or so were downhill to the ferry, so I had to retard the timing to raise the temperature of the
exhaust manifold so everything would be cooked when we arrived! .........perfect!!
Harry

[Ed Fuller]

Does anyone have any good recipe ideas for a morning or breakfast type food for a manifold cooker?

My local club does a Saturday morning cars & coffee and I’ve always wanted to “prepare” something in my cooker during the drive over.

[DHort]

Hey Marty. Since you and your daughter are in charge of the meet and greet at OCF, is this what we can expect for a meal next year?

[speedytinc]

Does anyone have any good recipe ideas for a morning or breakfast type food for a manifold cooker?

My local club does a Saturday morning cars & coffee and I’ve always wanted to “prepare” something in my cooker during the drive over.

Have done breakfast burritos. Pre cooked, foil wrapped to warm.

[TRDxB2]

On tour take advantage of the fauna & flora
Roadkill Recipes - all recipes require preparing the main course by remove feathers, fur, bones, gravel, whatever. A good washing to remove sand and dirt. Larvae can be fried and or ground - its protein rich

TT Toasted Turkey
Toasted Turkey recipe is a holiday staple! Made with a a recently killed turkey, lots of rich butter, fresh herbs, a hint of bright lemon, and flavorful onion and garlic.
Black Era Baked Black Bird
Rub bird in oil, poultry seasoning, thyme, smoked paprika, rosemary, and garlic powder. Place in cooker. 20 minutes of driving time.
Touring Trounced Trout (river crossing)
If necessary remove head, tail fin and bones. Spoon flesh on to a sheet of aluminum foil and season to taste with one or more of these spices combine small amounts of dried paprika, chili powder, ground ginger, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, salt & pepper, and dried herbs, such as oregano, parsley, cilantro, etc. wrap and seal the fish. Place in the hot cooker for 10-15 minutes. Driving not required if the manifold was red hot Done!
Couplet Creamed Cat
Add some butter in the cooker, then add the flour, stirring with a wire whisk. When blended, add the chicken broth, stirring rapidly with the whisk. Let the mixture simmer, stirring often, about 10 minutes. Add the cream, salt, pepper, nutmeg and cayenne. Then add the fur-less cat (puma or domestic) and heat gently (drive fast to cool engine compartment). Serve on waffles or toast.
Fordor Fried Fox
Prepare meat as noted above. Fill cooker 1/2 way up with vegetable oil, drive till boiling. Add meat till brown, let cool
Center Door Deer du jour Note this recipe requires some initial preparation between stops, and the 3-4 hours of driving time to cook
Open the bottle of red wine and pour a glass and taste it. It is critical that the wine tastes good. Further tasting may be required as oxygenation of the original wine during the cooking process should be monitored.
Season, then sear the meet (in batches) in the manifold over high heat. Pull over and add a good lump of butter, add the onion and stir well. Add the garlic, stir again. Add the carrot and celery, stir to coat in the butter. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes, until the vegetables have softened nicely and are releasing aromatic flavours. They will smell great.
Push the vegetables to one side. Add the bay leaves to the cooker and pour in the wine. scraping the residue as you deglaze the pan and reduce the wine. Simmer for about 5 minutes, then drain the juices from the meat plate into the pot. Coat the beef on the plate in the flour, mixing it through well. Tip all the flour-coated meat into the pot and stir all ingredients in together.
Add the diced tomatoes and beef stock, and bring to a gentle simmer. Stir well and check the taste to see if it needs more seasoning. Add the chopped parsley. Season if required, with sea salt and black pepper, then transfer the stew to the cooker to cook for 3 to 4 hours, or until the meat is tender and pulls apart easily with forks. Check the meet at least half an hour before you plan to serve. If too dry, slowly stir through some more stock and let it rest into the stew. If it is too wet, remove the meet to a plate and cover with foil. Leave the juices in the cooker and heat to reduce the sauce. Return the meet and remove the bay leaves before serving.
Roadster Rodent Roast
Season the carcass with salt and pepper. Add vegetable oil to cooker, add the rodent pieces, drive on bumpy road to brown on all sides. In a medium bowl, combine sugar, onion, ketchup, garlic, paprika, Worcestershire sauce and water; pour over the rodent.

[Henry K. Lee]

[mtntee20]

Hank,

I don't think it's done and ready to eat YET! Needs a few more miles.

[Henry K. Lee]

Butt methane air inject is the bonus while traveling!

Us dim dar hillbillies have a solution to da alternative fuel v-hick-UL’s besides moonshine! Flex fuel.., we dim dar invented it!

[Dallas Landers]

How many trucks can a woodchuck chuck?

[mtntee20]

This isn't "thread drift", it's a TOTAL WASHOUT!!! Wheeeeee, wheeeee, down the river and over the dam to grandmother's house we go.....

[TXGOAT2]

Granny Clampitt had a larrupin roadkill 'possum recipe. PS: Secret ingredient: Coffee grounds! Road Chef Louie's 5-star tip of the day: A fresh cigar butt will eliminate that larvae "gameyness" !

[TXGOAT2]

"I don't think it's done and ready to eat YET! Needs a few more miles." /// Retard timing, advance throttle, and carry on.

[TRDxB2]

This isn't "thread drift", it's a TOTAL WASHOUT!!! Wheeeeee, wheeeee, down the river and over the dam to grandmother's house we go.....

Yeah! But its fun! By the way those are parts of real recipes I added just substituted the protein instead of beef or chicken and added a bi of color to it the dialog- trout was trout