Exhaust Burger: Cook While You Drive

Posted by Adam Kuban, January 23, 2008 at 1:00 PM

From Designboom's "Dining in 2015" design competition comes this device above, created by an Iranian team that says, "Your car exhaust is a barbeque now.. Stop the car when you are hungry, install the device to the exhaust and back to drive. You'll have a hamburger in no time. This way you don't need fuel for cooking while commuting and a large amount of energy would be saved."

Great, guys. Now get to work on that carburetor-based bun-baker, and we'll have burgers coming and going.

Just to be clear—you're not actually cooking the burger with the exhaust but with the heat of the exhaust. The clamshell chamber is sealed, and the fumes bypass it. After the jump, a photo that shows how the thing works. [via Gizmodo, thanks to "Hamburger" Matty]

4 Comments

Tags: burger weirdness, technology

4 Comments:

This can't be good for you. No way. I don't care how it's designed. One flaw, defect, or a certain level of wear and tear and it's cancer.

sbrachman at 5:14AM on 01/24/08

Back when I had my big gas-guzzlin' V-8, we used to wrap tamales in foil and put them on top the manifold during road trips. 307 cubic inches put out a lot of heat.

PhotoKirk at 9:17AM on 01/24/08

@sbrachman: No kidding. I don't think anyone would actually buy one of these things. And I hope the design team was just joking around.

Adam Kuban at 9:45AM on 01/24/08

"Back when I had my big gas-guzzlin' V-8, we used to wrap tamales in foil and put them on top the manifold during road trips. 307 cubic inches put out a lot of heat."

I've done this with a few foil wrapped burgers....Not bad...Good in a pinch.

redstone11 at 6:18PM on 01/28/08

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