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You ever cook hot dogs with the plug, cord, and two nails?

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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The concept of dangerous electrical circuits brings back all kinds of nostalgic memories.

When I worked for a film company (a 1000 years ago) there were two favorite ways of boiling water for coffee on location:

1) A large wattage resistor connected directly to mains used as an immersion heater. Note: The mains were 220V.

2) A cup with two plates on top of each other but not touching, each connected to mains. Pour water directly into the cup, plug in. This arrangement boiled water literally in 3 seconds.

Yet the only mortality I remember was work-related: A broken cable under water.

Michael Koblic, Campbell River, BC

That looks fun!

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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Electricity, is there no problem it can't solve?

--Winston

Wow.. Christmas dinner at the orphanage!

Just goes to show that hotdogs aren't just for ordinary days.

The commercially produced product was the Presto HotDogger (as seen on Tv, probably).. Nope, not so much a viable product these days, but from back around the time of Yard Darts and other cool amusements.

I was at a thrift store a few weeks ago, where they tried to give me a 'Hot Dogger' along with some printers.

Did you hold the nails while it cooked? ;-)

No, for that I use my hot dog.

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Did you hold the nails while it cooked? ;-)

I'd take the printers and leave the 'Hot Dogger', personally.

--Winston

I did.

Wimp! ;-)

The most I've ever paid for a microwave was $2. It had a bad door switch that was replaced with one from my salvaged stock. A few months later the HV cap went bad and was replaced with a good used part. It is the only one I ever bought, and I've used them for 28 years. The first was a huge stainless steel Amana RADAR Range that was built for commercial use. It needed a 20A circuit, and was big enough for thrre liberal to dry their hair at the same time. :)

Some people just don't like high iron hotdogs. ;-)

Amazing thing about those Hot Doggers - the first generation used a food-grade Stainless for the spikes and they worked fine - then they used some sort of a Zamac alloy, and you wonder why the dogs tasted "off"...

Yeah, a Microwave doesn't make metal transfer into the food.

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