Cooking Bacon

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While having a beer fuelled thinking session at the OcuK Silverstone camping meet I asked the question ...

"Could you cook bacon in a Laminator"

...and nobody knew :)

Now to try it would be stupid/dangerous/destroy the laminator, but does anybody know if it can be done ???




**** Disclaimer !! If anybody tries this as a result of this thread it's not my fault , they must have been born stupid ****
 
erm............what a strange question. Might as well wrap it in foil and put it under the bonet while driving it to work. Nice bacon when you get there :D
 
Two questions. What’s a laminator, and why would you want to cook bacon in one?
 
Raymond Lin said:
erm............what a strange question. Might as well wrap it in foil and put it under the bonet while driving it to work. Nice bacon when you get there :D
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I saw a tv show where they cooked a salmon in tin foil under the hood but it tasted of oil and other engine smells iirc.
 
Takes quite a lot longer than you'd think to cook something in the engine bay of a car. For instance:

I put a mr kipling bramley apple pie (the small one) in the exhaust downpipe of my car (which is probably the hottest thing in the engine bay) after 5 minutes the outside was toasty but the inside was still cold :(
 
Mat said:
I saw a tv show where they cooked a salmon in tin foil under the hood but it tasted of oil and other engine smells iirc.
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Top gear. ;)

However - there is a book for Landrovers called Manifold Cooking.

And it works - just need a good sealed pot. :D

Simon/~Flibster
 
Flibster said:
Top gear. ;)

However - there is a book for Landrovers called Manifold Cooking.

And it works - just need a good sealed pot. :D

Simon/~Flibster
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HFW did it on his lanny and it worked fine (IIRC)
 
When you wrap things in foil and cook them on a barbecue they don't taste barbecued. I assume the same would work on a car engine.

In The Simpsons Wiggum and Homer cook eggs in their car engine, however I don't think they get round to eating them.
 
No idea but a soldering iron with the tip pulled off keeps a mug of coffee nice and hot :cool:
 
Stretch said:
Two questions. What’s a laminator, and why would you want to cook bacon in one?
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1. a laminator is a machine used to heat-seal sheets of plastic to paper-based documents in order to protect them from general wear and tear.

2. a normal person wouldnt
 
Yeah, and you can keep your cutlery warm by standing it in a working toaster!

Do not do this, its a dangerous thing to do.
 
Hold on, cooking bacon in a laminator? Would it not be a bit hard to eat through the pouch?
 
Now, looked into this a bit further and apparently laminating temperature is between 110 and 140 degrees C. However you need 180 degrees C to char meat on the outside so it might not be very crispy. It would probably come out more like boiled ham. Wafer thin gammon?
 
I worked in a bakers shop for 3 weeks once. It was hell. Anyway... We had a machine for slicing loaves of bread. You put a loaf of bread in at the back, pulled a lever and it sliced it. Job done. We also had to make fresh sandwiches, some of which included cucumber, which obviously took ages to slice.

So, one day, one of the random scouse women who worked there comes in and tells us how last night her husband had been giving her a seeing to, but she was bored and her mind was wandering and she wondered whether you could save time by putting a cucumber through the bread slicer. As you do.

So, she tried it. It worked, but even at the thinnest setting the slices were still dead thick. Sandwiches must have been a bit on the crunchy side that day.
 
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