The Essenza Mini by Nespresso has been a welcome addition to my kitchen and is absolutely small enough for a truck.
Beware though, the machine is cheap but the product is expensive and the corporation is well known for business practices that are less than savory.
I have a cookbook from the 70's with an entire section dedicated to manifold cooking.
@john-putnam Back in the 70's you could actually reach the exhaust manifold without having to take out half the engine. I'm just wondering what reaction I'm going to get when the company discovers I've converted half the back of my work rig into a kitchenette.
Years ago one of the crews at the Port of Portland added a microwave to the back of their truck.?ÿ Made for a nice lunch on the middle of the airfield.
As for getting to the manifolds, my 2001 F250 still has easy access to the exhaust around the turbos.?ÿ In my old 1970 Landrover I just have to put stuff next to my feet and they will cook.
I used to leave on the dash in the winter, a black pad and a can of soup, so after 6 hours or so of the Cold Northern Nevada Mountain sun, would actually warm the soup to medium heat all passively.?ÿ I sorta got my "free Lunch" while working to prove there is really no free lunch doing geophysics...... ?????ÿ
I've never been a big one on eating any sort of lunch, especially when I was working in the field.?ÿ I only eat one time a day, a big dinner.?ÿ The only thing I really cared about was staying hydrated.?ÿ I haven't worked in the field for a long time, but to this day, I start with a 24 oz. cup of black coffee and sip it throughout the day.
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Back when remote site surveying for the Forest Service we'd spike camp for 5 days at a time and hike each day 2-5 miles to the work site (P-Line for logging roads).?ÿ Since we had to carry a lot of gear a light lunch was best. My favorites were a can of Campbell's Vegetarian Vegetable soup (no congealed grease) and a P51 or a big slab of pizza in a leather fieldbook belt holster.?ÿ We'd carve spoons out of stakes for the soup and it turned into a speed competition with under 30 seconds a good score.
Dunno if it was legal but when we ran into Franklin's Grouse which are remarkably unwary we'd knock 'em down with rocks, wring their necks,?ÿ not bother gutting or plucking them and just cut the breasts out of them.?ÿ We'd roast the breasts on sticks over a quick small fire.?ÿ Yummy.?ÿ
