Yes, you can cook in your car--but do you really want to? Yes.
posted December 30th 2004 8:15AM
Ok, we know a lot of you like to eat in your cars (yeah, we've seen the empty McD's bags and Krispy Kreme boxes in
the back seat). But cook in the car? Short of keeping coffee warm, we'd be hard-pressed to think of anything remotely
related to cooking we'd want to do in our ride. Except sandwiches. Seriously, man, hot sandwiches. Because if you're
like us (who can't bear to be without your comfort food on the road), S. King Co. of Wisconsin has a whole range of
coking gear that you can plug into your trusty cig outlet. This includes a microwave, a frying pan and, of course, a
sandwich maker. We should, of course, include the obligatory warning about cooking and driving, but we trust that our
readers are savvy enough to know that frying eggs at 80MPH is not only unsafe and probably unlawful, but will
definitely result in severely broken yolks anyhow, so why bother?
[Via Popgadget]
"Coking gear," huh? Hehe...
Anyone else get an HTTP 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address rejected?
I tried it on two machines with two different ip addresses! Any thoughts? I want to check out that sandwich maker...
Someone bought us a 12v coffee maker and it was the slowest, kludgiest device ever.
Forget the slow DC cookers and coffee contraptions, get a Jetboil! Doesn't take much skill for the passenger to operate and you'll have hot coffee/tea/soup a lot faster.
They have a French Press option now.
http://jetboil.com/
"Anyone else get an HTTP 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address rejected?"
Yep...Can't seem to view the page :(
Archive.org Cache:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031222212932/http://www.skingcompany.com/index.asp
Spend 5 minutes at a urinal in one of those big Interstate truckstops - and read the posted Ads. Anything you can think of comes in a 12V version - most priced at $19.99
This probably is not for use while driving. Y'all ever see those jumper boxes which is really a big battery with a 12v port on it? You can use this while camping. I have also seen people who are total greens who have a Solar House(Solar charging batteries) and no connection to the power company have 12v DC ports all over the house instead of 110 AC outlets. I'd imagine these cooking implements would make them happy. One can only have salad for a small amount of time! :D
When I had my VW bus, I had a DC blender. It was great to find a nice spot to spend the afternoon, make a batch of margaritas, and let the world go by.
I also had a DC fridge to transport film in when I worked for Kodak. Summers in the south are hell on film, and the fridge kept it at a decent temperature, so the film samples weren't cooked when I gave them to photographers.
Here's an alternate URL:
http://www.skingco.com/convenience/food_related/2cook_appli.htm
Back when Model Ts ran the roads, they used to wrap a roast in foil and wire it to their engine block. They'd take a long sunday drive and have hot roast for lunch.
long-haul truck drivers live in a world of 12v accessories. these kinds of things are super common at truck stops. they often get stuck at docks waiting for loads for hours on end, with no food around for miles, so most trucks have fridges, microwaves, sandwich makers, playstations, dvd players, satellite tv/radio, etc. although practically everything we use was on a truck at some point, it's not a very well paying (or easy) life, so it's not like those guys can afford to eat out 3 times a day.
Anyone remember that Simpsons episode where Homer has his car kitted out with a microwave, fax machine, ice-cream fridge etc?