Exhaustburger Cooks While You Drive
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02.15.08
Good TreeHuggers never waste a thing, yet so much heat is lost through the tailpipe. We have heard of cooking with your car engine before (there is even a book called Manifold Destiny about the subject) but when covering the Dining in 2015 competition we missed this clever trick for getting a little extra mileage out of your engine exhaust.
Just stick in a veggieburger and drive. From Iranian designers roohollah merrikhpour + mina mirzahossein + narges alam + hani saghaiyan + elmira manafnejad + sanaz ghaem maghami + navvab bahreyni ::Designboom via ::Cubeme
Can I just say Ewww!
10 miles under a car, and that thing is going to be dirty, and not clean dirt, but the worst kind of dirty toxic road filth.
Wow! Two of my favorite carcinogens together at last! Exhaust fumes and meat, especially burned meat, almost too good to be true.
Is this healthy?
Is Carbon monxide good for cooking
The idea is great - but, probably not for "1 minte steaks" :-)
Can't help to think that since 75% of the gas is lost as heat - couldn't the heat from the engine room be used somehow to make electrictity or something?
"From Iranian designers roohollah merrikhpour + mina mirzahossein + narges alam + hani saghaiyan + elmira manafnejad + sanaz ghaem maghami +.."
Early April fools joke? The image looks photo shopped.
So, if I use this on a Bio-diesel/Vegtable oil powered car, do I get fries with that?
-Lego
Back in the 50's & 60's before fast food arrived in New Brunswick Canada, my grandparents used to cool "Boiled Supper" in the engine compartment of there old Land Boat of a car. Those old cars had plenty of space upfront, so on a trip my Gradmother would put pot roast, veggies & potatoes, water salt pepper & dry mustard in a pot. Then she would warp the pot in tin foil & wedge it in the engine compartment. By the time they got to their destination several hours later, they had hot supper.
"Can't help to think that since 75% of the gas is lost as heat - couldn't the heat from the engine room be used somehow to make electrictity or something?"
I second this. Surely someone could figure out something, other than cooking food, useful to do with the head from the exhaust. Sterling engine or something. I know this is no longer necessary but old air-cooled VWs used to use the heat from the exhaust as cabin heat via a heat exchanger.
This should be standard equipment, under the hood, inline with the exhaust manifold. Luxury cars could bring it inside the passenger compartment. Biodiesel fry-o-lator in the glovebox for the french fries
I really, really, really hope this is safe. Or a joke.
Modern liquid cooled cars use heat from the liquid cooling system to heat the cabin via a heat exchanger, and it works much more effectively.
As far as the exhaust burger goes, it looks like the exhaust is a separated from the cooking surface, but there is no seal for the cooking chamber to keep exhaust from entering that way. Although a useless idea, it is kinda neat.
I will open a movable restaurant. Depending how far you live I can offer you certain meals.!
Electricity is our highest quality type of energy. Exhaust gas does not have the pressure nor temperature necessary to make it. Conversely you can make electricity first, then use the exhaust heat for district or space heating as that requires lower temperatures.
Electricity is our highest quality type of energy. Exhaust gas does not have the pressure nor temperature necessary to make it. Conversely you can make electricity first, then use the exhaust heat for district or space heating as that requires lower temperatures.
To all those wondering about the lost heat. There is a man who made a six stroke gas engine which adds water to the pistons which then turns to steam, using some of the normally lost heat.
here are a couple links
http://www.popsci.com/node/9649
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/664/
They should make one for pizzas.
Imagine how fast the pizza would arrive at your house when you order it!
They should make one for pizzas.
Imagine how fast the pizza would arrive at your house when you order it!
What's in those Falafels again?
Just from an engineering standpoint, the exhaust where it exits the car is not hot enough to effectively cook the meat. If your exhaust is coming out that hot, you have other mechanical problems, for instance a failed catalytic converter, and probably shouldn't be driving it.
The comment about the VW using a heat exchanger for interior heat reminded me that the first Car to use this method was the 1929 Model A Ford. Most of you are probably not old enough to know about this!
Okay.. I don't think it'll be hot enough to cook anyting in there, but this is pretty funny, on the sarcastic side.
What I'm actually curious about is, how will it sound? exhaust flows trough a 'room' and gives heat to the matal plate before being forced out a tube.. the sound should be interesting, lol.
Hmmmm, probably healthier to cook with camel dung.
Well this finally answers the age old question " how many Iranian designers does it take to cook a burger?"
funny stuff. so where do you toast the bun?
Attach it to a bath-tube over a rickshaw and you've got a "mobile-spa"!
Attach it to a bath-tube over a rickshaw and you've got a "mobile-spa"!
well the mobile spa wins the flim flam iran burger.
1903 Peugeots were water-cooled by circulating water through the chassis frame which was made of copper tubing. made sense to peugeot as they were a bicycle factory first then began producing their first cars, Charles Rolls first car was a 1903 Peugeot.