I Made Breakfast Tacos Under the Hood of a Pickup

Breakfast tacos are kinda the perfect food for thought , since they ’re just the right combination of alimentation and soil , and they ’re moderately good on the go . In fact , even if you ’re in the centre of freaking nowhere , you’re able to misrepresent ‘em under the hood of a car or truck and have absolutely arrant taco the instant you ’re ready to eat .

It ’s called locomotive cookery – not on the button a unexampled phenomenon , but everyone I sing to about it looks at me like I ’m mad . So I manipulate up some breakfast tacos in a Toyota Tacoma , partly because that meant I could cook them while having some serious fun on Texas ' myriad dirt roads , and partly because I ca n’t dissent a cheesy paronomasia like tacos in a Taco .

What you’ll need

plainly , most of the intellectual nourishment here is the same as any breakfast greaser , but you do require to get a lilliputian originative for the cooking appendage .

2 eggs1 fistful of white potato tots , thawed1 breakfast sausage patty , dicedCheeseTortillasZip tiesAluminum foil1 Sn can , opened carefully so you could reseal it

Toss all your ingredients together

If you ’ve fuck off the requisite factor get together , putting them together is ridiculously easy – crack the two eggs into the can , then toss all the other nutrient ( sans the tortilla ) in there too , and put the lid back on .

Wrap the tortillas in foil

You don’thaveto do this stride , but there ’s probably something incorrect with you if you ’re doing all of this and do n’t take the extra 30 seconds to get overnice , hot tortillas at the same time .

Seal the top of the can very tightly

The one really plaguy thing about eggs is that they ’ll goeverywhereif you do n’t have a gross seal , so in gain to the lid , I took the supererogatory step of wrapping some tin foil over the top , and cinching it down with a zip tie . As you ’ll see in a arcminute , you ’ll require that nil tie anyway .

Shake it all together very vigorously

Since those egg are just crack into the can , you run a risk having a gay side - up taco if you do n’t scramble them ; shaking is a bullshit - load more merriment than whisk , just FYI . Bonus : shake like this also let you know if you ’ve successfully sealed it all up . You do n’t want nut cooking all over your engine .

Tie it down under the hood

This is where it set about tricky , because where you put your food depends on how hot it needs to get to fake properly , but also on how long you plan on driving . If you ’re only going on a 30 - instant sashay , you should witness a spot much closer to the engine than I did here , because it ’ll take the engine up to 20 minutes to get courteous and hot . The best course of action is to feel around ( cautiously ! ! ! ) under your hood after you get home from work someday . See how red-hot dissimilar surgical incision get – theexhaust manifoldis a sweet situation for engine cooking .

Wedge your nutrient so it wo n’t get dislodge during your drive . Hot dogs , for example , wo n’t leak all over the position if you put them sideway , but for eggs ? I took no probability , because I could already imagine the speech sound call with Toyota ’s reps . " No no , the motortruck was great . Yeah . That ’s bollock . I ’m a klutz . "

Pro crown : zip sleeper are second only to duct taping in themost useful invention everdepartment . Use them to your advantage here and your nutrient wo n’t dislodge no matter how crazy you drive .

Breakfast Tacos in a Tacoma

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Go have fun

think of how long your food require to manipulate , and how far away it is from your locomotive engine - slash - heat source . Now , go do whatever it is you do that ’s sport . To cook tacos in a Tacoma ? I hit dirt route , naturally .

Pull your food out

Amazinly , I get to say something here without even the slim soupcon of satire : " caveat : Contents and Container Will Be Very red-hot . " If you ’re not used to stab and poke at around under the cowling of your automobile , just think of it this fashion : it ’s hot enough to fudge your food . If you would n’t just snap up food for thought off the skillet , do n’t hand in without a rag or a glove to insulate you from the heating .

Cut the nil ties and/or de - force your food , unfurl a tortilla , and just plunge the content of your can straight on there . You ’re basically done now .