# "So, whats for dinner, Mr Coffee?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-mr-coffee/674346 "2013-11-20T14:26:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-mr-coffee/674346/21 "2013-12-07T17:58:20Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Brace an iron so the soleplate is upright, it acts as a burner. You can get quite a nice grilled cheese sandwich out of it by wrapping it in foil so it doesn’t ooze cheese. It takes a few practice sandwiches to get the timing down. > > And have her check, I was able to have a [hot pot](http://www.amazon.com/Proctor-Silex-32oz-Hot-pot/dp/B004YTW58S/ref=sr_1_3?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1386437905&sr=1-3&keywords=hot+pot) which is a form of tea kettle. This model can be used to cook soup or stews from scratch but I wouldn’t use it as a crock pot. There are quite a few brands, so read toe comments and if possible take a visit to someplace like walmart to look at them physically. Thanks for the ideas. In her case, she’s a gluten and lactose intolerant type I diabetic. Fun, eh? So poaching fish and steaming veggies is exactly the kind of late night power meal she needs during studying. I think she’s getting a coffee pot and a link to that blog for Christmas. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-mr-coffee/674346/22 "2013-12-08T00:04:52Z")
You want to cook up a stew and all you have is a coffee maker? You need a reliable animal team to pull a cart but all you have are six neurotic indoor cats? You’re a prisoner desperate for a refreshing home brewed alcoholic beverage but all you have is a shared toilet? You need lovin’ bad and all you have is a smelly nanny goat? You’re starving to death and all you have is an overweight, depressed roommate who is unlikely to get better anytime soon? ---
**Author:** ![kapntoad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@kapntoad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapntoad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-mr-coffee/674346/23 "2013-12-17T23:26:57Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > The tomato soup, roast beef and baked potato cups are fine but they still haven’t got the blueberry pie right. 😉 Is that you, Violet? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-mr-coffee/674346/24 "2013-12-18T00:48:31Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Brace an iron so the soleplate is upright, it acts as a burner. You can get quite a nice grilled cheese sandwich out of it by wrapping it in foil so it doesn’t ooze cheese. It takes a few practice sandwiches to get the timing down… James Beard (cite unknown at the moment) said he did that with two irons upside down next to each other for some food demo in the boonies once. In the Army we used to grill mystery meat draped over the space heaters in the barracks. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-mr-coffee/674346/25 "2013-12-18T15:32:17Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > James Beard (cite unknown at the moment) said he did that with two irons upside down next to each other for some food demo in the boonies once. > > In the Army we used to grill mystery meat draped over the space heaters in the barracks. Somewhere knocking around at my mom’s house we have a bog standard German helmet from WW2 that very obviously was turned upside down and used to boil something - the straps are cut out and it has sort of scrape marks on the inside and remenants of soot on the outside crown. Dad claims he found it that way but I wouldn’t put it past him to have used it to heat water to shave and wash in, or boil up something made from collected ration cans or casually shot and butchered with scrounged veggies. His speaking German helped them scrounge food when they were out and around when they were casually billeted somewhere up the Ruhr Pocket. The other guys would come back with weedy looking vegetables and he was coming back with eggs, sausages and hams - amazing what being nice to people will do for your diet. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-for-dinner-mr-coffee/674346.md?page=1)