DiscoJoe
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We used to do it all the time in the Army and I've done it once or twice with the Discovery. Wrap the food in a couple of layers of tin foil and secure it to the manifold whilst driving. About 30mins later it will be piping hot. Remember to use some gloves when handling the tin foil ~ it gets mighty warm 
One tip though: don't go through any water or mud whilst the food is cooking.
Best improvised cooking spot was the engine louvres on a 432 (battle taxi). It used hydraulic fans to blast air through the engine radiators. Also the warmest place to sit in winter
One tip though: don't go through any water or mud whilst the food is cooking.
Best improvised cooking spot was the engine louvres on a 432 (battle taxi). It used hydraulic fans to blast air through the engine radiators. Also the warmest place to sit in winter
If you heat CANS on the manifold remember to pierce a small hole in each can first!
Else you get a explosion, and your engine covered in Beans in Tomato Sauce!
Our Army truck drivers did this routinely, and it was especially good in the flat-fronted old AEC and Leyland trucks with the engine covers inside the cab.
Any fool can be uncomfortable and eat cold cans.
CharlesY
Else you get a explosion, and your engine covered in Beans in Tomato Sauce!
Our Army truck drivers did this routinely, and it was especially good in the flat-fronted old AEC and Leyland trucks with the engine covers inside the cab.
Any fool can be uncomfortable and eat cold cans.
CharlesY
DiscoJoe
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No need to puncture the cans simply put a couple of dents in the side. When you hear the dents pop it's lunch time
... but be quick or there will be an explosion Also, be careful when opening the tin 'cos baked bean juice under pressure is a wicked liquid to get in your eyes
No need to puncture the cans simply put a couple of dents in the side. When you hear the dents pop it's lunch time
Also, be careful when opening the tin 'cos baked bean juice under pressure is a wicked liquid to get in your eyes
Let me tell you, my army drivers wouldn't have heard a grenade going off in their cabs, never mind the dent in a can of beans popping out!
An AEC Militant Ten Tonner fully loaded and going flat out at 35 mph makes so much noise in the cab most of my drivers wore ear defenders all the time they were at the wheel.
I think they could stash four cans on the manifold at one time.
I remember one guy made a mistake with a can.
He thought it was chicken supreme (YUKKKK!)
In fact the can contained two bars of Dairy MIlk chocolate and a handful of hard-boiled sweets. What a mess.
CharlesY
DiscoJoe
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DiscoJoe
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That's sooooooo funny
I'll have nightmares about that tonight Wasn't chicken supreme the pits? I never met anyone that actually liked it.
bustersbus
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Hugh fearnley wotsis face did it anaw in 'a cook on the wild side' in his old landy with some trout ah think
I was thinking of doing some bacon on the way to work, no better start to the day than a hot bacon butty
Maybe better check that new Highway Code thing in case that's an offence, but if there's no mention of it being b-a-d to do bacon butties on your manifold you'll be OK.
Charles
Universally_Challenged
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basicly, if your a resturant etc your bound to have 15 dover sole in a tub in your cold room, after a few days you end up with what i call fish juice, about 2 inches of fish slime, gysm, blood etc, smells soo fecking wrong. filled the **** of a salesman's washer bottle with it. oh, the good old days.also anbother one is raw shell-on prawns. you can hide about 30 around the interior of a car. and they wont start to smell for a few days. i swear, you never find them all
Universally_Challenged
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you've been watching too much telly. huge fernly-whitting-**** doesnt drive a landy. he driver an 56 plate audi.
oh and he's a robbing little jippo. sells free range organic chickens for 23 quid in his shop. the thing is the other health food shop sells the exact same chicked ( as locally rased) for £7
bustersbus
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Ermmm, he did in his tv progs
Ah ken he actually borrowed or the tv company bought at least one of them ( the red one), cos it was left behind at a local garage here and eventually raffled off for a tenner a ticket!!![/quote]His will be more expensive cos he's got a label stiched onto them, the ****!!!
RAZ8550TDI
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whats up with the old chicken supreme? bit of mayak curry powder mixed in and away yer go with a nice bit of french stick to dip in hmmmmmmmmmm, definatly not a manifold job but i have the use of a hob in my house so i find cookind easier than some have mention on here! lol
Universally_Challenged
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on the front line? french stick? did that come in a can too?
I will never forget the look on my soldiers' faces when the grub trucks turned up with two ten ton loads of COMPO in 10-man ration packs, ALL of which were the chicken supreme kind .... nearly had a mutiny ..... sent ten tons away again and found the Royal Engineers (pretty stupid people) and switched the whole lot for about 6 tons of better stuff.
There were four kinds of compo, and I don't recall ANYONE choosing that chicken supreme version ..... it looked and tasted as if someone had already eaten it ...
CharlesY
There were four kinds of compo, and I don't recall ANYONE choosing that chicken supreme version ..... it looked and tasted as if someone had already eaten it ...
CharlesY
