Hot Dog Cookers (part of the Tomato Threads) From: "sally.mullock" To: anglican@list.stsams.org Subject: Gadgets? Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 Mimi wrote > I bought a brand new electric Hot Dog cooker . . . What on earth can a Hot Dog cooker be, other than a glorified saucepan? Surely you just open the tin, tip the sausage and brine into a pan and warm them? Don't 'they' come up with some crazy ideas for things we 'must' have!! Love SallyM ----------------------------------------- From: "Ellen Rains Harris" Oh no, these are far more sophisticated (if it's what I'm thinking of). They have an electrode at each end that you put in the hot dog, then flip the switch and electrocute it. Cooked from the inside. Sort of capital punishment for the weiner. ----------------------------------------- From: "Jones, Phil" Americans have invented many ingenious devices for cooking hot dogs. When I was young we had a hot dog cooker which was designed to cook the dogs by electrocution. It had a series of opposing small spikes. One put each end of the hot dog on each of a pair of spikes. You could cook about six dogs at a time. When you turned it on, electric current passed through the dog until it began to sizzle. If you were not alert, the dog would explode. In case you are wondering, we did not have a consumer product safety commission back then. The cooked hot dog tasted about like you imagine your finger tasting if you stuck it in a light socket. Philip Jones, IT Reporting Team Leader ----------------------------------------- From: "sally.mullock" > Sort of capital punishment for the weiner. LOL, Mrs H you've got me choking on my glass of red here!!!!!!! Hilarious. Love SallyM ----------------------------------------- From: "Carol M. Marsh" My hot dog cooker is a two-part plastic thingy that goes in the microwave. Up to four hot dogs fit in it. (Sally, we buy hot dogs in the meat section in hermeticaly sealed packages.) Put the hot dogs on the bottom tray in the indented places; then, put the top on. Place the bun(s) on top and nuke 'em together for 1 to 2-1/2 minutes depending on the number. True electrocution. Carol, who actually uses the thing ----------------------------------------- From: Mimi Bennett-Aronson It had a central heating unit & you stuck them on skewers around it. Supposedly you could do shish kabobs as well, but it looked like a cleaning nightmare. Shalom, Mimi Mimi Bennett-Aronson ----------------------------------------- From: Mimi Bennett-Aronson I just wrap mine in a paper towel to zap them. I guess I'm low tech. 8-) Shalom, Mimi Mimi Bennett-Aronson ----------------------------------------- From: Glenn Hammett The only canned hot-dogs I've seen were those soy vegetarian things that 7th Day Adventist eat. I don't like the cheap ones made with chicken, turkey, and other meat mixed together. The best are all beef with Kosher hot dogs topping the list. Wieners or hot dogs are sold in plastic wrap (isn't everything) in the meat counter. I don't like boiled hot dogs, although I will sometimes dump them in the chili and heat them up at the same time. The best way to cook hot dogs is by grilling or broiling, but the absolutely best way is to stick them on a straightened coat hanger or long stick and cook them in a camp fire. Truthfully, hot dogs aren't a big favorite of my but I keep five or six packages in the freezer to use when I'm to tired or lazy to cook anything else. +Glenn