

Forget cooking a steak on your car engine. The folks at the Dolphin Bay Hotel in Hilo, Hawaii, have a guide for cooking a game hen with hot lava. Yep, just wrap that bird in some banana leaves and cover it with a few shovels of 2000 degree molten rock. As anyone who's ever worked with pastry knows, you have to make a vent for steam, too. After about 45 minutes, smash the cooled rock with your shovel and pick the meat from the charred leaves. Oh, and wear gloves. The Dolphin Bay site even tells you where you can get special ones graded for the 2000 degree heat.

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6-28-2006 @7:52AM loretta davis said... cooked my own food on a lava rock setup in a restaurant in aruba.please tell me where i can purchase this setup. i was told it came fron Italy...
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9-03-2006 @10:47AM Thelma Roane said... We just came back from Aruba also. We ate at the same place. Please tell me where we can purchase the lava rock setup. It was a unique way to dine.
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1-13-2006 @10:19AM Myron said... This reminds me of stories about cooking things tucked in a car engine, like a potato wrapped in foil. It kind of works but why bother.
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1-13-2006 @10:35AM Dmnkly said... Myron -
Because it's cool.
Need there be another reason? :-)
(And incidentally, on the needlessly elaborate/stupid cooking scale, this has to be at least 37 times cooler than cooking something on your engine block. Hot lava!!!)
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1-13-2006 @11:56AM Bart said... Months ago, I saw on the Food Network (I think) about a glassmaking company --- Corning, I think --- that had demonstrations for the public, and it featured cooking food using the hot melted glass for the heat.
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1-13-2006 @1:02PM Kelley Ritchey said... Could hot lava cooking appliances be next? "Invite your friends over and impress them with your skill with molten rock!"
OK, maybe not.
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