7 Cooking Methods So Weird You'll Have To Try Them

Cooking food requires kitchen equipment. But what if things you normally don't relate with cooking could help make the end result equally delicious? These are just some techniques you can use to cook different foods without turning your kitchen into a furnace. Oh and you're welcome.

1. Ironed Grilled Cheese Sandwich

You may have done this if you have ever stayed in a hostel with no kitchen or kitchen equipment. Sandwich a cheese sandwich between two paper towels and place a clean hot iron on both sides until the cheese has melted on both sides and the surface of the bread is nicely toasted.

2. Dashboard cookies

Dashboard cookies are made just like normal cookies. Except that they are cooked in the car with the help of the sun and not the oven.

Park your car in a sunny hot spot on a hot day and place your tray of cookie dough on your car dashboard after making it sunbathe for 15 minutes. This can only happen if the temperature outside is at least 35 degrees Celsius.

The hot air trapped inside the car should be at least 165 degrees, you can know this with the help of a thermometer. Patiently watch your cookies melt and harden to become what you would usually see in an oven. The end result is paler than conventional cookies but the taste is just as great.

3. Cooking while driving

Fish can be best cooked on the car engine with the heat and steam it generates. It's highly recommended that you don't try this at home unless you have a mechanic to assist you.

Place the marinated fish wrapped in heavy duty aluminium foil behind the car engine and drive for around 40 minutes. Be careful while removing the fish from the engine (use oven mittens)

4. Eggs and bacon in a bag

This is the perfect breakfast when you're camping, or dinner if you are around a bonfire.

Line the base of a paper bag with bacon strips. Crack two eggs on top, seal the top of the bag and place over the fire with the help of a stick. The fat from the bacon prevents the bag from burning.

5. Beer butt chicken

Dreaming of moist and tender chicken that literally falls of the bone when you eat? Listen up because this might be just up your alley.

Marinate the chicken with olive oil, salt, pepper and herbs after removing giblets and offal from the cavity. Take a couple of swigs from a beer can and insert it up the cavity of the chicken (the chicken will be literally perched on the can) Let the chicken dry roast in the oven or on a barbecue pit for about an hour. The chicken is cooked if the juice is clear after a knife is inserted in the though.

6. Dry ice ice-cream

Dry ice might be hard to find but if you do get some, crush it into a fine powder and add to a bowl of custard while whisking it intensively.

7. Pizza box solar cooker

No need to buy a fancy wooden box or solar cooker. You can just recycle the pizza box from last night instead of chucking it in the bin. The icing on the cake? You can use it to reheat the left over pizza :D