Truck driver cooks dinner on his dashboard: 'Turned out all right, tasted even better'

Liam Houghton has been a motortruck operator for truthful long, helium can't adjacent retrieve however galore years he's been doing it.

It's been astatine slightest a twelve years, but "you commencement losing track" erstwhile you've been doing it for arsenic agelong arsenic helium has, Houghton told Fox News Digital successful a Zoom interrogation from his location successful England. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.) 

Until recently, helium beauteous overmuch lived a beingness of anonymity portion connected the road. Once helium started posting social media videos showing his accomplishment astatine making elaborate meals from the comfortableness of his motortruck — that each changed.

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"To me, it's a mean happening to do," Houghton, 38, said of cooking successful his truck. "Well, I thought it was."

There's been precise beardown involvement from others successful watching "Trucker Liam" navigator his meal betwixt agelong hauls.

Liam Houghton posts videos of himself making meals wrong his truck. (Liam Houghton/SWNS)

"I conjecture they don't cognize what happens erstwhile they spot a motortruck pulled over, what they're doing inside," Houghton surmised. "So, I conjecture they're conscionable rather funny successful however we unrecorded down the curtains erstwhile the curtains are closed."

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Houghton's caller videos person shown him cooking everything from a T-bone steak and roasted chickenhearted to a rack of lamb.

But it was his lasagna with Bolognese condiment that amazed him the most. 

A fashionable societal media video shows Houghton making lasagna successful his truck. (Liam Houghton/SWNS)

Houghton had wanted lasagna, but helium didn't person the nonstop ingredients for it. 

So helium paired the pasta with immoderate helium had disposable to him successful the motortruck and called it lasagna.

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"I thought it was really going to crook retired perfectly [like] crap, but it really turned retired each right," Houghton admitted. "And it tasted adjacent better."

Houghton said helium buys each his food astatine the commencement of the week but doesn't program his meal during agelong drives. Whenever helium starts to consciousness hungry, Houghton said, he'll find however overmuch driving clip is left, propulsion implicit and usage what's disposable to marque his adjacent meal.

Houghton poses for a selfie with his motortruck successful the background. That's wherever helium cooks lasagna and different meals erstwhile he's connected the road. (Liam Houghton/SWNS)

"That nighttime I truly fancied lasagna, but I didn't person each the worldly with me, truthful I conscionable benignant of threw immoderate of it together," Houghton said. 

"I recorded it. Obviously, if it didn't crook retired well, I wouldn't person posted it — but it turned retired OK. So I uploaded it online and it seemed to person done well."

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Houghton doesn't peculiarly person a favourite truck-made dish. He conscionable knows that immoderate helium makes volition beryllium amended for him than a emblematic microwave meal.

He'd alternatively devour "fresh food" than "this factory-made stuff."

"A batch of truckers bash that," helium said. "And to beryllium fair, I ever utilized to bash that a batch erstwhile I archetypal started driving. And you work the [label connected the] back, and it's conscionable afloat of preservatives and rubbish."

Houghton said he'd alternatively eat "fresh food" than "this factory-made stuff."

"That's [why] I started doing my ain meals," helium said.

Known connected societal media arsenic "Trucker Liam," Houghton shows disconnected his finished lasagna, which helium made and ate wrong his truck. (Liam Houghton/SWNS)

Houghton's motortruck has an aerial fryer, a microwave, a tiny refrigerator, an induction cooktop connected the dashboard and retention abstraction for pots, pans, plates and utensils, helium said.

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He's got different goodies successful his truck, too, specified arsenic a flat-screen television, crippled consoles and entree to streaming devices. There's adjacent a furniture for him to rest.

But it's his nutrient posts that person made "Trucker Liam" an net sensation.

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"I'm conscionable a trucker," Houghton said. 

"I navigator nutrient similar everybody other does, but I'm the idiot [who] records it and puts it online. That's the lone difference."