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A cooking appliance (that looks just like a Telefunken U47)
that has two probes that are inserted into either end of a
hot dog, and cooks it with a massive jolt of electricity.
zzzzzt.
http://www.physics....er/Pages/64.24.html
[MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 17 2011]
We had one of these when I was a kid!
http://www.neighbor...tchen/misc/35kc.htm
[xandram, Feb 18 2011]
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I Googled resistive heating and...<link> |
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But they only used 120V, hardly a //massive jolt//. Must be in some third-world country where the electricity grid is only half running. |
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I wonder if there's a category for culture:food:
cooking:lightning ? |
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There is, it simply hasn’t been added to the ’Bakery list yet. |
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[MaxwellBuchanan] A good link, with a great last line: "This
will in no way make it unsafe to eat the hot dog. You should
feel free to invite a student to enjoy it" |
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[marked-for-deleshun] pun. [+] |
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One of the spoof ads in the Kenny Everett Video Show was for "electric meat - just plug it in!". |
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Just what I need for my Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.^(TM) |
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s'pretty good pun, and answers the question of why it hurts when he pee-ee-ees. |
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Not only a good pun, but a reasonably effecient means of cooking. All the power is turned to heat inside the item to be cooked, so very little is wasted. |
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The voltage used to cook would have to be adjusted for the individual item. A lightning bolt would simply burn a narrow track through. A lower voltage (therefore lower current) will cook more slowly and evenly. |
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Q: If an electrode were inserted in either end of Jimmy Swagger, what voltage would be required to achieve full cooking in 30 minutes? |
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What we need now is a Captain's Bee-fart idea. {+} |
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I'm sure we've all seen how to make a battery out of a lemon. |
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The question remains, though: how many lemons does it take to cook a hot dog? |
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//A lightning bolt would simply burn a narrow track through.// |
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I imagine the dogs will occasionally explode in a scalding mess. So face shields and heavy aprons will be necessary attire. |
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My aunt had an electric hotdog cooker like in [xandram]'s link. That was in the late '60s, and it looked a bit more modern. I don't recall it cooking well or being useful (same goes for my aunt). |
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A Telefunken U47, for the rest of us ignorants, is a large microphone with a metal body that would nicely encapsulate a hot dog, and would contain the flying shards after the dog is vaporised. |
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".. And the hot dog blew up later on the next day .. " |
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Two sides of that hot dog will act as a capacitor, and it will store the energy, and give a strong jolt back to the person eating it. |
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