How to Cook Supper in Your Car

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By mikimoco
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Cook Supper in Your Car

In this day and age, many single people drive home in heavy stop-and-go traffic for an hour, or even longer. The last thing they want to do is to cook supper when they get home. Seemingly, the only remedy is to cook or the consequence will be that boring, repetitive fast food diet. However, there is a workable solution to this dilemma.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

food thermometer
aluminum foil
proportioned food
distribution
observation
appetite

Step 1

Go out to your car. Start the engine. Allow it to sit idle for around 10 to 20 minutes. Look for low areas on and around the engine block. Use the food thermometer to gage the temperature of those low spots. Take note of which areas are the hotter spots and which are the more moderate temperature areas. Find a spot that is not very hot compared to the other spots.
Step 2

This next step takes a little planning and forethought. Take out the aluminum foil wrapped single portions of any type of meat, a foil wrapped potato, and a foil wrapped serving of vegetables. You even have some bread or biscuits you have wrapped in foil. Just take out a single serving of each of these food items, unless there are more people to eat. In that case take out the same amount of servings for each person. Place these in a small cooler and place a cooler in your car for when you cook supper.
Step 3

Go to work. And when you get off, around 4 or 5 o'clock pm, pull out the cooler. Open the hood of your car and place each item of food, still wrapped in the foil, on and around the spots of the engine where you gaged temperatures. You determine which foods cook on higher heat to go on the hottest spot, the medium temperature food on a medium heat spot, and the coolest temperature food in the medium and coolest temperature spots. Even the biscuits can be placed somewhere where it does not get too hot as you cook supper.
Step 4

Close the hood of your car. Get in and begin driving home. Take your time and drive patiently home. You can even stop on the way home to get gas or whatever. Don't stop long enough for the engine to cool down. When you arrive home, look to see whether or not the neighbors are watching, so they don't know how you cook supper on the manifold. Remove the foil-wrapped food from the motor spots and take them inside.
Step 5

Take out a plate. Unwrap the food from the foil onto the plate, get a drink and some utensils and sit down to a what will seem like a home-cooked meal. Repeat the process each day to cook supper as you drive home.