Cooking burgers can be exhausting

I bet you love what I did there.

You may have guessed from the title of this post that it’s something to do with cooking burgers and exhausts and you wouldn’t be far wrong. In fact, you’d be absolutely right.

Some clever Iranians have spotted a gap in the cookware market and have designed a device to cook a burger from the heat of a vehicle’s exhaust. Spotting a gap in a market dominated by the likes of George Foreman and Jamie Oliver, the team have produced what looks like a cross between a frying pan and a lean-and-mean grilling machine.

Designed as part of a dining in 2015 competition, the burger cooker uses two chambers to keep the exhaust fumes and food contents separate, the upper chamber allowing the fumes to bypass and exit the device whilst the heat is transferred to the lower chamber where the meat (or whatever vegetarians eat) is cooked.

I’m not sure what the finished results would be like, after all it would be nice to be able to drain away any fat and I’m sure it’s not going to do your engine performance any favours.

Maybe this could be a new option for performance exhaust manufacturers like Scorpion Exhausts? McDonalds could make full use of boy racers sitting in their carparks on a Saturday evening and whilst they rev their engines, the burgers could be cooking!

View the designboom website for this and more of the dining in 2015 entries.