In the 1970’s and 1980’s there were several books the either had characters that did it or promoted it.
Why is there no cooking tray in my new car’s engine bay?
Is it dangerous? (It would be less physically dangerous if there was a specific spot for it.)
It’s very hard to get the car inside the kitchen.
This is very true.
Much easier to plumb water to the garage.
Keep the garage door closed for free heating in the winter.
Considering the amount of cancers related to exposures to petroleum products, is this a real question asking why we don’t cook on something that runs on vaporized petroleum products and is lubricated with petroleum products?
Too much stuff to remove to get to either of my car’s electric motors. Also that might cause a legit warranty denial someday…
With an electric car one may be able to plug an actual oven in…
It’s really inefficient. A stove has all of the heat being concentrated to one spot while a car has a whole cooling system spreading out and dissipating the heat, and cars are more efficient at that than in the 70s. Having enough heat to cook with is generally bad for an engine so by design you would want it to cool before it’s that hot.
I have had a few coworkers who put their lunch containers in their engine bay so that it would heat up for lunch though, that was for a job that had us driving around to 3-7 jobs in a day.
