Re: Just delicious - cooking with oil , coal or wood

RDannemann Wrote:
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> Yum, yum.  Nothing like coal flavored food.


Not that bad, actually -

Back in the early days of the Fillmore & Western we used their little Porter 0-4-0 as a taxi to go across town to a place that had really good tacos & chili rellanos, but I don't remember actually cooking anything in her firebox.  She was a wood burner, so we could have enhanced the flavors by changing the fuel — hickory, oak, lemon or even avocado.  I would rate wood-burners tops, coal a distant second and oil-burners about negative ten for in-the-firebox cooking.  OTOH, if you're just using the backhead as a hotplate, the fuel shouldn't matter at all.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender