Mr. Buddy can warm your leftovers

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<p style="margin: 0px;">I just wanted to throw this out as a suggestion.&nbsp; I know a few will think it's nuts but I'm the same guy who solders copper water pipes over the propane camping burner...&nbsp; Whatever works!</p><p style="margin: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px;">If you have some leftover casserole, stew, or want to warm up a foil pan&nbsp;of beans and weenies, try using your Mr. Heater Buddy if you have one.&nbsp;&nbsp; For just a quick warm-up, it works fine...&nbsp; You're not gonna get a ton of heat out of it like a stove but if you're already heating the vehicle, you can get a little extra bang for the buck warming your grub, too.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin: 0px;">I wouldn't advise cooking anything such as hot dogs, etc. directly over the heat where grease will drip down in.</p>
 
ive used mine to heat wiring shrink tubing. works excellently.
 
I do that all winter long, also works good if you have a metal cup and keep tea in it, nice and warm/hot to drink
 
I wish I knew how to post images here.&nbsp; I have a multi use system for heating, baking and food.&nbsp; I had a piece of stainless stee3' x7' from a kitchen remodel.&nbsp; What I did was measure, think, measure and think.&nbsp; What I came up with is a foldable SS box, that I use as a solar oven, an oven box over my coleman 2 burner, a firepit oven and also a heat sink for the Mr. buddy heaters that can be used as a warming box.&nbsp; I have even baked garlic bread in it, my red neck air freshner.&nbsp; lol<br><br>What I did was measure my cooking stuff, the coleman, the pans I would use in it, the dimensions of the Mr. Buddy and the size of the 4 mason jars I would use for solar cooking.&nbsp; With these numbers/dimensions I came up with a size enough to fit a 12" (6 qt. lodge Dutch oven).&nbsp; I took an old microwave grill/tray and cut it down as a rack for it.&nbsp;&nbsp;The inside is painted black using woodstove 2000 degree flat black.&nbsp; Which aids in the solar cooking use.&nbsp; The oven/cooker/heat sink has been a valuable tool for me.&nbsp; I can throw it on top of the tailgate/ground or roof of my cap and cook good meals via the sun, I can load it up and uses as an oven or reflector oven at a fire, can place it on top of the Coleman stove and on low heat have a oven or warming tray.&nbsp; When in front of and very close to the Mr. Buddy and filled with rocks acts as a heat sink.&nbsp; When not used as a heat sink and the Mr. Buddy is used it is an oven to about 300 degrees, great for warming stuff or a slow bake for small frozen pizzas and the like.&nbsp; <br><br>With some piano hinges, a drill, a rivet gun and some SS rivets, it folds flat to about the size of an 9 x 11 inch book about 2" thick.&nbsp; I use two bungee cords to wrap it cross wise to hold the grill/rack to it.&nbsp; Best 20 bucks I have ever spent on a cooking item.&nbsp; <br><br>If you can make a paper airplane, drill a hole and spray paint you can make it in under 2 hours.&nbsp; IF you don't want to or have any metal, it is free by using any appliance for the materials.&nbsp; I made two of these for other campers from found washers and dryers on the side of the road at a campground in PA after they saw my gig.&nbsp; I was cooking a meal as a solar cooker from about 10 am until 5 pm, moved it over to the fire pit and made rolls/biscuits to add to the meal.&nbsp; The next morning I was baking my weekly bread on top of the Coleman with it.&nbsp; The new friends I had made in their RV's loved it and we went a salvaged a dryer that was thrown on the side of the road in the woods.&nbsp; <br><br>I had my cordless tools, always have rivet and gun in the boxes and they drove to town and bought the hinges.&nbsp; We drank some beers and made them an oven that had multiple uses.<br><br>Note: I have a thermal laser for measuring heat.&nbsp; I have found with a mason jar filled with water and surround by rock in front of the buddy heater, it gives off a good amount of low heat (about 140 degrees) for about 4 hours after the buddy is off.&nbsp; This is inside a tent with the outside temp being 45 degrees give or take.
 

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