Turbo charging a 120V Presto hot dogger on 250V.

Many thanks to Kim Sleep for sending this original Presto hot dogger across for our entertainment.
These things work by applying full mains voltage directly to the hot dogs via the spikes in their ends so the current will be much higher with a higher voltage.
It cooks them very efficiently, with just a little bit of arcing and burning at the ends.
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[@CONN3232]

the weird thing is, its probably the most energy efficient way to cook a hotdog.

[@mr.mischiefiknowyourpasswo8224]

It's basically a hotdog mass execution via the electric chair.

[@magicalframe9441]

I'm gonna say probably not... I'd be interested to see that tested though

[@maurice5508]

Turbo charging 6 Hotdogs was around 8kW peak. Let's say that he needs to (worst case) hotdogger them for 1 minute, it would result in 133.33Wh. Cooking 100g of Spaghetti with 1 Liter of water in a Pot is on average 200Wh. So I am pretty confident that this invention is as great as it is entertaining.

[@speeding2fast]

@@maurice5508 did you say "Wurst" case?

[@maurice5508]

@@speeding2fast 😂👌

[@jaimealoro]

"The power factor of a hot dog is exactly 1" If I end up doing my dissertation on electrical systems, I'll make sure to include that and cite it.

[@pjnoonan1423]

I like how the hotdogger doesn't even have a switch, and you have to physically disconnect it from the wall.

[@royfinegan8006]

Honestly I'd never trust the switch if there was one

[@timrattenbury4768]

Well thay do have switches on the wall like smart ppl don’t thay?

[@officer_baitlyn]

@@timrattenbury4768 well it was designed for the American market where most people don't

[@IncredibleMD]

I have a portable electric grill like that. It's literally just an electric heating element, a power wire, and a housing.

[@lordkek5817]

it needs the two metal on the lid two complete the circuit so as soon as you open the lid it stops cooking pretty smart tbh.

[@scambroselauntrellus3681]

"How do we innovate cooking?" "SAUSAGE CIRCUIT" "Genius"

[@TF2Scout10]

I tried this on a frog before it exploded

[@leddaudet2350]

lucario just for fun I also did try on a hamster and his eyes poped out

[@rkgaustin9043]

It is from Wisconsin so yeah.

[@chriswright8074]

You call that a hot dog

[@96Assassine]

Don’t show this to ordinary sausage...

[@Art-fn7ns]

"The power factor of the hot dog is exactly 1." 🤣

[@dan2800]

yes

[@GeorgeJFW]

I died when he said that

[@simskeeper]

Me too. Just died of happiness.

[@ChrisD4335]

I don't get it, the hotdog is basically a resistor that is the PF you would expect.

[@coolguy-xd1bg]

The joke being, why should one perform power factor analysis on a hotdog @@ChrisD4335

[@T2D.SteveArcs]

Surly this product should be called THE WATT-DOGGER

[@Bramon83]

This nigga here 😆😆😆😆😆 That's gold

[@j-man6001]

better than MEAT-RESISTORS lol "today we are going to show you how to change out six 2.5 megohm meat resistors"

[@alpacajuice4702]

I legitimately did a full on dad laugh

[@joemengler1666]

Tested to Destruction 😂😂😂

[@MyFatty69]

oh, fuck off lol

[@JamieStuff]

I had one of these back in the '80s, when microwaves started at a few hundred dollars. Aside from a slight metallic taste at the contact points (likely from a lack of cleaning), it worked very well. A dill pickle in there for a few minutes gives a rather interesting light show at 120V; it would be interesting to see what happens at 240V.

[@bigclivedotcom]

We put a large pickle in during a live stream.

[@mariusschmitt5855]

Naughty - I like 😃

[@DarronBirgenheier]

My family had a large "in wall" microwave oven back in the late 1970s. I used to take frozen hamburger patties from the freezer, and "cook lunch" for myself in it. I was QUITE poor at doing this, and ended up with ugly, shrunken patties, still cold and uncooked at the center, and light brown on the outside. Yum!

[@bacon.cheesecake]

@@bigclivedotcom Why isn't there a clip of that on youtube? I need to see it!

[@progenitor_amborella]

@@bigclivedotcom Absolutely need to see an archived clip of this!

[@GoredonTheDestroyer]

I appreciate how this is Canada's legacy in the realm of consumer-grade hotdog electrocuting technology. As a Canadian, I approve of this product and want one.

[@anorakus8272]

Definitely getting some Green Mile vibes with this

[@Conservator.]

It’s an electric chair for Frankfurters.

[@toxiccan175]

10/10 Best comment

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Exactly my thoughts!!

[@Conservator.]

Toxic Can Tx!

[@Conservator.]

soundspark Ha, didn’t know that. 🤣

[@peterjensen6844]

Roll on 2

[@ChrisD4335]

Not really bad, this is a nearly 100% efficient way of cooking hot dogs, the power is used for nothing but heat generation in the meat directly.

[@DuckcuD]

you could play around with different shaped "connectors" but otherwise I agree totally

[@crackedemerald4930]

Every electrical heater is 100% efficient

[@DreitTheDarkDragon]

I was thinking I could use pin headers and cook with lower voltage, but I never tested that

[@badacconosu]

@@crackedemerald4930 yes but on a electric stove the heat gets lost between the stove and the pan also in the whater

[@109268]

@@badacconosu water? No dont tell me you're the kind of person who boils hotdogs. The best part is the burned part!😂

[@user-fn3py8hv9p]

“How would you like your hot dogs ma’am/sir” “Electrocuted” “What”

[@ranbymonkeys2384]

bloody

[@gutschke]

That's how Panko bread(crumbs) are made. Just electrocute the dough for extra crispiness

[@bunit1701]

The single greatest thing about this video, perhaps Clive's entire channel, is the words 'hot dogger' being spoken in Scottish brogue.

[@erikthenorviking8251]

Had me thinking of the Fascinating Aida song (Dogging) that they sang at the Edinburgh Festival.

[@psygn0sis]

Okay, I like the 'overclocking 120v appliances' idea. More, please!

[@HowardLeVert]

I've been witness to someone plugging a 127V coffee maker into a 220V outlet whilst working in Brazil. We knew the coffee was done when the glass jug shattered. Twenty seconds for the hot-dog seems reasonable: twice the voltage, four times the power, assuming the resistance of the hot-dog remains constant. Have I really just written "Assuming the resistance of the hot-dog remains constant"...?!

[@chrisw1462]

LOL.. I did seriously think the hot dogs were going to explode a few seconds after being powered up. I remember how they popped and sizzled, and that burnt electrical smell (and taste..). Sadly, they only cooked faster. :-P

[@HowardLeVert]

@@chrisw1462 I thought they might too!

[@FreeOfFantasy]

do you know the channel photonicinduction?

[@mikemondano3624]

My fridge on 240v can approach absolute zero. Food lasts for 20 years or more and visitors never come back twice for a midnight snack.

[@mayssm]

"Steamed Hams, but it's tiny hot dogs instead of hamburgers, 250V instead of 120V, and Clive instead of Skinner."

[@BobyChanMan]

lmao

[@fl260]

I watched that episode exactly yesterday :D

[@Yggdra666]

@@fl260 Heh, me too. "You call them steamed hams even tho they are clearly grilled?"

[@leisergeist]

Well that would certainly be unique lol

[@logonontrily4161]

And you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously electrocuted?

[@CriticoolHit]

As an American the way you said "An AmErIcAn NoVaLtY" had me laughing pretty good. We sure do love our hot dogs.

[@EvilDaveCanada]

Back in the early 70s, we used to make these things in electricity shop. Transistors were still brand new and most electronic devices still used tubes. The advantage of the lower voltage of 110 is that the dog cooks slower and the other skin doesn't crack ad much but does give a cooked texture to the outside of the dog. These are banned now because people are so stupid that they would take the lid off without turning the power off and then touch the two contacts in the lid. This of course stopped the dog from cooking and would then start cooking their hand instead. Unless they touched the two contacts with different hands which would then run the current up one arm & down the other, following the blood vessels and then doings all sorts of nasty things to their heart on the way to the other arm.

[@Kidiot]

Creepy Crawlers and Metal Moulders had this lid lock, in which it will not work without the lid down (and, unrelated, will not un-latch until cooled). Just a simple switch pressed by the lid could help but I know it's done & gone.

[@GeorgeJFW]

Hahahah "the power factor of the hotdog is nearly one" said no one in the history the earth ever. love it

[@jftechdrones]

r/BrandNewSentence

[@Chemist1076]

No capacitance or inductance.. pure resistive load...

[@JohnDoe-rl9pp]

​@Revolting Swan There are three ideal types of loads in electronics: Resistive, Capacitive, and Inductive. In resistive loads, all the energy goes into the load. With purely inductive and capacitive loads, energy gets moved into the load, and then right back out again (in AC systems, like the hotdogger). Power Factor is a quick way of communicating whether a circuit is resistive (PF = 1) or purely inductive/capacitive (PF = 0) or somewhere in between. It's really important when you're dealing with motors and generators and all kinds of machines. It is not, traditionally, associated with hotdogs.

[@GeorgeJFW]

@@JohnDoe-rl9pp thanks

[@duroncrush]

I used to cook hot dogs in my dormitory using two forks and an old extension cord. The RA never did figure out how I was cooking in the dorm

[@jamiegaming-ms8xl]

how are you still alive

[@MadScientist1001]

@@jamiegaming-ms8xl theres a thing.. its called "being careful", ever heard of it? XD

[@theungoliant9410]

If you do that with a pickle, it will glow.

[@oldschoolman1444]

Why am I watching a guy electrocute hotdogs? =)

[@lukemacinnes5124]

@@MadScientist1001 I don't think you can be careful combining forks and an extension cord

[@strasnpfostn]

This reminds me of my apprenticeship, heating sausages with an adjustable power supply and shoving test leads in the ends. It worked best at aroumd 170V, if you d go higher than that they charred too fast at the ends. Yea, we were young and bored. Never thought such a device could existing though, cool to see…

[@gabotron94]

I remember seeing that, on 120v, the voltage drop along a couple of millimeters is about 2V, meaning that if you simply stick an LED lengthwise into the hotdog, it lights up.

[@onlydan3820]

"all my fuses are hot dogs"

[@mackdlite5900]

Just hotdogs? You don't need something sturdier like a kielbasa for higher current circuits?

[@krashd]

We have the Germans one country over for when we need industrial sausages. They have a sausage for every job.

[@stephen3164]

In America we use Vienna sausages as standard 10A fuses in our fuse panel. Bonus - if you happen to blow a fuse, you get a tasty treat while changing it out.

[@mcgyver272000]

And the Viennas come in cans of six so you always have spares!

[@trustyoldiron5416]

I'm guessing they are the slow blow variety?

[@kimsleep4111]

I always wanted one of these when I was younger when these first came out...but my mum never would allow such a thing. In my workshop down in the basement I had to do with sticking huge nails into the end of each dog, and plugging it into the mains. When I had a chance to buy one, the first thing I thought was to send it to Clive. Holy crap, these things cook fast, and thoroughly at 220!

[@Art-fn7ns]

Related: Steve Mould electrocutes a pickled cucumber - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6amhn-vfbGApdE

[@stanleydenning]

You should of explained to him that american Hotdogs are required. LOL

[@FreeOfFantasy]

@@chrisw1462 Are they? With double the voltage I would expect four times the power. 15-20s compared to 60s is what I would expect.

[@chrisw1462]

@@FreeOfFantasy Yes.. not much.. A cm or so longer and a few mm wider. So a bit more fat and moisture inside.

[@chaos.corner]

You can buy hot-dogs in a can like Clive has in the US but I don't think many people do.

[@ThatMBdude]

I've just spent 10 minutes watching a man cook hotdogs with an electrical current, a year ago, and have no regrets, what a wonderful world we live in 😁

[@crakkbone8473]

Five years for me…

[@Muldrf]

Back in school, we had two somewhat similar cookers a flat wooden board, one with bent large nails, the other with bent forks. They each were setup for at least 6 hotdogs as well. With a 110 cord wired across them. I don't think it really took 60 seconds even on 110Volts AC. They were a bit scary, what is almost scarier is that Presto made a consumer product like them, granted that Presto cooker is a far safer design. They were used as part of our electrical safety training.

[@photon2724]

today instead of overclocking my pc, ill be overclocking this dangerous cheap hot dog cooker

[@michael931]

He overdogged it

[@TheNameIsForty]

It's 1 am and im watching some guy burning sausages, great job youtube algorithm.

[@bryanskscion2229]

Indeed.

[@blihkeempat740]

Electrified sausages

[@moshelevceder]

12:48 for me 😄

[@B10KPlaysGames]

Lol im watching this at 1:02 AM

[@JoshuaLaquai]

Good to know that I'm not the only one...

[@Cryocide]

My father was a high voltage lineman, and long ago, he called us outdoors for a quick electrical lesson, since we were a bunch of curious kids when it came to electrical and electronic things. He wanted us to learn respect for mains electricity, so he told us what the lesson objective was, took a lamp cord, stripped the ends of an inch or two of insulation, wrapped the bare wires around a pair of ordinary nails, and stabbed the nails into the ends of a hotdog. He then warned us to stay back and not touch it, and then plugged it in. It cooked the hotdog in a similar way, but he intentionally overcooked it so we could see that the electricity burned the hotdog from the inside out, in a direct path between the nails, and he told us this is what happens to your body when you get an electric shock, especially one that lasts long enough to do significant damage, and on the inside no less.

[@Sypaka]

"Honey, I am going to make frankfurters in our new hot dog device." "So, we have finally chosen death"

[@CPUDOCTHE1]

I worked for a guy that took a 12 v battery, an inverter, and two forks on a field trip when he was in school in the mid 1970s. He sold hot dogs to the other kids on the field trip.

[@SavvygeMediaGroup]

wholesome lmao thanks

[@guily6669]

I did something similar, but used my fingers instead :).

[@mayssm]

@@guily6669 Yeah, but then you can only make 8 sales.

[@NeuronalAxon]

Like a car battery?

[@CPUDOCTHE1]

@@NeuronalAxon Yes.

[@kimsleep4111]

Now Im afraid Im personally responsible for upping Clives Cholesterol through the excessive consumption of Hot Dogs

[@theotherwalt]

How old was that thing?

[@chrishartley1210]

Probably old enough to be pre-cholesterol so Clive is safe on that score.

[@__WJK__]

Cholesterol PLUS a healthy dose of Aluminum (or zinc) ions to boot! (o:

[@stanleydenning]

@@theotherwalt Early to mid 70's. Outlawed, now, In the U.S. because of shock hazard.

[@chrisw1462]

AND I'm sure he appreciates it! lol.. Besides, triglycerides are more the issue with hot dogs. I actually had one of these as a kid, in the late 1970's. It gave the dogs an odd metallic taste. Because of that, we used it about three times and it went away.

[@AtemiRaven]

I just watched a man cook hotdogs for ten minutes. I need a life.

[@danielbomaster7540]

I have a life and watched this AGAIN A YEAR LATER

[@AtemiRaven]

@@danielbomaster7540 God damnit, now I'm watching it again because your comment reminded me it exists.

[@cbaha4985]

@@AtemiRaven here is another reminder 😈

[@Thiccdud]

Another one

[@OMGVLS]

And thanks to you guys commenting and watching it again it popped up in my recommendations for some reason.

[@sh4dy832]

1. power rises in square to voltage, the recommended time would thus be 15 seconds 2. 10mA is enough to override your muscle movement, so yes, depending on how you're touching the wires, you're be stuck. Tried that out for you (in a controlled experiment that allowed up to 20mA, 15mA appeared to be the limit of what most people are willing to do to themselves).

[@bigclivedotcom]

I got up to around 13mA in my video where I tried that.

[@DanielSchneller]

I laughed out loudly at “I’ll test this for yumminess … Aah! Too hot!” 😆🌭

[@DanielAfonso-IT_Consultant]

"That's fucking, uh... That's too hot"

[@yewhanlim8916]

Occurs after time stamp 4:15

[@jmurray886]

As a fellow Scotsman, kudos on your linguistic restraint, considering Scots people swear as much as Aussies (if not more).

[@saoirsemurray1310]

Everyone is talking about about the device, and I'm just like, "Canned hot dogs? This is sacrilege!"

[@BAITHOVEN_]

How else would you get them?

[@saoirsemurray1310]

@@BAITHOVEN_ in the USA hot dogs tend to come in shrink-wrapped packages. If you have a more fancy source, they're supplied like any other meat from a butcher shop. Canned hot dogs simply aren't a thing in America. Edit: In America "Bar-Q" are the literal worst hot dogs, but even those don't come in cans. I suppose you could put better hot dogs in cans, but that's just not something we do from the start. Hot dogs are an American staple, even if they didn't start here. If Europe is canning hot dogs, then shit... maybe we have the best version in the world. 🤷‍♀️ Hot dogs are hardly the high bar of cuisine, anyway.

[@ReagyNyan]

@@saoirsemurray1310 We get both over here in the UK, its just far more common, cheaper and easier to store canned ones so people tend to buy them instead, and due to this stores will tend to only stock canned ones, only ever seen packaged ones at the larger stores. In the end I've never really been able to tell the difference between packaged and canned ones as they're not exactly the best of quality when it comes to meat.

[@WumboGuy]

@@BAITHOVEN_ they generally come in a tightly packed plastic bag in normal countries.

[@Nerdule]

@@BAITHOVEN_ they come in shrink-wrapped, refrigerated plastic packages here in America - I've literally never seen, or even considered the idea of, canning hotdogs. I suppose they're probably in higher demand here, so they can be given more expensive refrigerated space at the grocery store, so they don't need to be canned to preserve them.

[@TheUnclestein]

Wonderful video as usual! This inspired me to buy one of these from the US to use as part of my inaugural talks on electrical safety, and simulate how current can pass through flesh!

[@bradsmith4489]

"O no many I should not of cut off this 110 and put on a 240 vault"

[@JOOLZNED]

If you listen you can hear the screams from health and safety :)

[@officialJoCa]

You never touch me anymore.

[@Womberang]

Wat ^

[@km5405]

it has a interlock, so its safe :)

[@littlelittleman86]

Julian Redwood moron

[@AngeloXification]

Health and what?

[@TechyBen]

I love how the Hotdogger is so safe, it even came without an off switch!!!

[@Korium84]

UL certified and energy star compliant

[@wildbilltexas]

It was the 70's when people stayed in the kitchen while cooking. My family had a Presto air popcorn popper without one either.

[@richlaue]

The wires went into the lid and the contacts where recessed. Place the lid on and the hotdog cooked. It was relatively safe, as long as the user didn't poke anything into these contacts.

[@Korium84]

@@richlaue touch those two leads and you're gonna have a fun time though :p been shocked by 120, 240, and 50k

[@richlaue]

@@Korium84 those connections are very well recessed, one will need to use something like a thin metal rod or coat hanger to gain access to the what is more like an outlet, not a less. No, one would have to touch both leads or the hot one and a ground. For me it would not be much of a problem to simply touch it, my skin resistance is higher than normal, requiring me to grab it, not just touch, before I usually even notice current flowing. Especially in the winter 110v feels like a light prickle.

[@madsboyd-madsen3463]

Clive counting up from 1 to 20 nearly made me fall a sleep. Couldn't be more relaxing.

[@phorce1]

I made a single dog version of this when I was a kid in the 70's with a couple of 16d bright steel nails, a short piece of 2x4 lumber, a short piece of 1x4 lumber attach to cover the nail heads on the bottom, and an electrical cord cut off of something --- and a toggle switch. Still 100% exposed to a live electrical circuit when in operation. LOL!

[@FizzlNet]

"power factor of a hotdog is exactly one as you would expect" *raises hand* Will this be in the exam?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Yes it will.

[@waterassasin]

@@bigclivedotcom Will there be extra credit????

[@ChristopherHindefjord]

Kids: What's for dinner? Dad: Moms out, let's make electrocuted hot dogs! Kids: Yaaay! Electrocuted hot dogs!

[@maicod]

they were cold dogs beforehand

[@LeftyPencil]

Mom returns. "good Lord, what happening in there!?" everyone: Aroura Borealis

[@chrisl2090]

I don't know why but I have found myself coming back to this video several times now! :)

[@vinceherried497]

I made a hotdog cooker when I was little. Mine was with ordinary nails no switch or safety. Plugged directly into 120v. Not even a cover. Thanks for answering my earlier querying on the cfl. Keep on being u. I love most of your posts.

[@jacobishii6121]

Tiny hotdogs from a can?and high voltage?.....this looks safe

[@cappytan9058]

Since when is that considered high voltage? In consideration it's actually still low voltage

[@cato7329]

@@cappytan9058 it's...240 volts...enough to kill multiple fully grown men... what the fuck do you mean still low voltage?

[@ST3ADYxKICKS]

have you ever been shocked by static? that is way more than 240 volts... @@cato7329

[@nandos_]

@@cato7329 Its not the voltage that kills

[@logik316]

epic gamer it’s all relative. 120 or 240 volts can be lethally high when it’s generated as alternating current and the amps are also sufficient. If the volts are much lower, then there simply wouldn’t be enough electromotive force to allow the electricity to overcome the resistance of your skin, regardless of the number of amps provided.

[@krisztianfekete3277]

probably the most efficient hod dog maker, but also has 0 change to pass any modern CE or FCC tests

[@S0uLGamin]

Krisztián Fekete bribe them with hot dogs

[@xeserupseinopelttil4574]

It gives the hot dog a certain taste. Many other channels have commented that the hot dogs taste off. I would TRY one, but I wouldn't want one of these. The roller machines are better imo.

[@Ronny_Cordova]

@@xeserupseinopelttil4574 Of course roller grills are better, they sit and roll in their own juices for hours making them delicious

[@mario_d9902]

I g e n

[@Nerdule]

@@xeserupseinopelttil4574 Yeah, the problem is, it also *electrolyzes* the hot dogs.

[@iggysfriend4431]

That doesn't even look vaguely sketchy. Clive this is one of your most entertaining videos. You've got another subscriber.

[@JosephLedbetter]

"You can't buy me a hot dog! I'm an adult!" -Lonely Island

[@AllahWarrior]

Throwback

[@Thekaiserwill]

“I’m just going to test this for yumminess” “Ah yeah that’s fuckin’ red hot”

[@JoshuaLaquai]

Oh my God... This is the best. I lost it when the current kept rising, the inside of the cooker *barely* visible and his voice stays completely calm. Also, "just gonna test this for yummines- ah, fuck... it- it-s red hot, AAHHH"

[@xTheRenegade666x]

I have a Pretso hotdogger they're awesome for quick snacks, although most of our Canadian hotdogs don't come in cans but rather a plastic wrap and they're larger than what you tested. Only thing close in cans here are Vienna Sausages lol

[@D-Mac56]

This is great! We had one of these when I was a kid. I can't imagine why they don't make these any more!

[@RavenLuni]

Now I know if I ever run out of 200 ohm resistors I can just use a hot dog :)

[@smartmonkey777]

HAHA, i love this comment

[@imark7777777]

Dang it I just bought a whole bunch of resistors.... off the top of my head I think I was going for 220 but 200 is close enough🔌🔥💥💣💀

[@imark7777777]

No wait that was 220K that explains why I burnt out one 220 testing things, I'm trying to drive LEDs off of 120 mains and yes i did consider and did watch the previously uploaded video on the subject of "LED Mains indicators".

[@mazzalnx]

ALL resistors are tiny hotdogs encased in resin and color-coded with stripes. SMD ones are just tiny square slices of bologna.

[@fotofillholland]

Could hot dogs be the new duct tape of the electrical engineering world? Hundreds of uses!

[@ruawhitepaw]

It amazes me every time I see a device that applies mains power directly across some user-provided substance. It amazes me even more how many of such devices I've seen so far.

[@anorakus8272]

Probably legal in the US but breaking all sorts of safety regs in the UK!

[@paulperry7091]

"The power factor of the hot dog" is not a phrase I ever expected to hear.

[@TheForlornDreams]

"I dont know what metal that is" LEAD. its lead. lol

[@ironhell813]

Zinc, and it doesn’t taste any different than fried.

[@tomkandy]

The metal looks like zamak, a zinc alloy often used for those sort of mouldings. Power wise you can do the maths - those hot dogs weigh 184g for 8 = 23g each. They're 70% water so treat them as 100% to keep the sums easy. Water is 4.2 J/gK. Room temp is 20C, you probably want to serve them at 70C so 50C difference. 4.2*50*23=4,830 J. At 250W per hotdog that's 19.3 seconds so pretty much spot on.

[@lmamakos]

This is a great example to relate to people who wonder why'd they'd need to use math and physics in everyday life.

[@mrtom64]

"Fanny Flambeaux and the Electric Sausage"......a hard act to follow!

[@chrwl007]

Wonder whether Clive would do that as a follow-up?

[@mrtom64]

Or maybe suggest it as the warm-up act for the next Tattoo.....should raise a few eyebrows.

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

Underrated comment xD

[@johnsiders7819]

LOL that was hilarious lighting it off and the fire alarm went off .

[@kimvibk9242]

@MrToM: "Fanny Flambeaux and the Electric Sausage" sounds like a really dirty movie...

[@bobross3172]

I love old time saving devices! This one was cool, I've never seen it before. Thank you

[@Vibakari]

“Ma! The dog ate the fuses again!”

[@azyfloof]

First of all, PUT A PICKLE ACROSS IT! You *must* have seen those videos :P Secondly, put an LED in the hotdog to see if the hotdog acts like a voltage divider and makes the LED glow :D

[@tommcewan7936]

[@TheRailroad99]

Great idea!

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

It does!

[@imark7777777]

I will say it again there's a commercial about new in-house pickles being better and they made a pickle electrocution board for a dance rave

[@martinwiegand601]

Sounds like the experiments done by methodisch inkorrekt ("methodically incorrect"). Sorry, german only, they are hilarious, making science amusing and talking about new papers in their podcast. hot dogs (and pickes, too) are universal resistors.

[@alexanderjuskov6743]

this video is 3 things: 1) An advertisement for the hot-dogger 2)Ye Old sausage review 3) cooking video ahahah

[@hydrocarbon8272]

Correction: 1) An advertisement for the hot-dogger 2)Ye Old sausage review 3) OVER-cooking video 3.1) cooking video Watching him watch the amps drop as they "run out of steam" was killing me. Burnt hotdogs are re-volting...

[@kendal5210]

Alexander Juskov and that Mukbang weird shit when he’s eating the hotdog

[@evanlove3015]

U forgot an asmr

[@theonetheonlyw5483]

The thought of canned hotdogs makes me shutter.

[@rolfmullen5906]

Reminds me 51 years ago when I was 12 and with a friend of mine we pounded two nails into a piece of wood, mounted the hot dog and pluged it in 117 Volts. It started smoldering at the contacts. Well it wasn't eatable. Sure would Like to know out of which material the spikes are made of. Mabe it is an aluminum alloy.

[@kennethng8346]

A long long time ago in a college far far away, I had a friend who was a chemistry major who needed to run labs over hours. Visiting him one day I saw a hotdog on a plate with two metal skewers connected to an electrical cord that was plugged straight into the outlet. I was like "you do know that hotdog is live, don't you?" He was like "never had a problem so far".

[@iLife64]

The taste of hotdogs made in these is like nothing else out there, this video makes me want to dig through the kitchen just to find my family's old one for nostalgia sake

[@HughesEnterprises]

We did this in physics class. But it was a lamp cord wired around to two forks. If you cook a pickle it’ll glow!

[@HughesEnterprises]

anonymous Not sure, but it does. Gets hot, steams a lot, glows yellow, starts to burn, and sometimes explodes. Pretty fun for high schoolers.

[@millionaerspieler1794]

@anonymous this is because of the salts in the pickle - those ions start to glow when current is flowing through them if i recall correctly

[@jamesgardener7099]

One retired 80 year old held electrical experiments for the other retirees and he did this experiment, one of the new retirement home helpers told him to put it away and he said no, so the helper picked it up by the pickle and got electrocuted and died, serves him right for touching someone's pickle

[@terrorbit3553]

@@jamesgardener7099 o

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

@anonymous its the sodium in the pickles, sodium makes a yellow glow when ionized.

[@sverregraffer6371]

This thing should be energy star certified

[@burtosis]

When a product is both an accurate electrical injury safety educational tool and a hotdog heater at the same time.

[@mauirandall8176]

Love how you low-key used a hot dog as a fuse

[@Tenkerman]

4:06 "Steam, steam from the steamed clams we're having"

[@barrettbarker8343]

Steamed hams?

[@rodwallace6237]

@@barrettbarker8343 It is an upper New York specialty. I'm from Utica and never heard of it. It is more of an Albany thing. Simpsons

[@kthwkr]

I used these cookers in the late 60's and the 70's. Problem was it was a one use device. And it was hard to clean so it got dirty. I finally used a suicide cord(lamp cord with alligator clips on the end) and just put the alligator clips on either end of a hot dog which I had already mounted in a bun. Worked fine for lunch at the lab bench.

[@ppsarrakis]

i though those are not safe,some foods chemistry gets wonky with electricity.

[@Anvilshock]

@@Blacktronics That may be true, but that's not a reason to go out of your way to pile even more on top of that street dirt, now is it?

[@ppsarrakis]

@@Blacktronics no check out electroboom,he electrocuted a sausage and some weird color stuff came out he said its not safe.

[@Blacktronics]

@@ppsarrakis That is because he is using DC, which causes polarization in the electrolyte (sausage), look up electrolysis

[@ppsarrakis]

@@Blacktronics ah fair enough.

[@65CJ5]

We had one of these years ago when they first came out. Worked great. I wish we still had it.

[@wilsonedwards8189]

And I've been foolishly been steaming hotdogs in a pot. I'm so glad someone invented a product you have to open up, plug in, precariously place a hotdog onto two cones, replace the top, cook until burnt on ends and unevenly cooked, clean both top and the electrical connections that cook the dogs, and wait for them to dry. PERFECT!

[@MarkGovier]

Power is I^2R, so cooking time should be ¼ of 110V time, so about 15 seconds.

[@WineScrounger]

soundspark worse, it changes over time.

[@haxxx0rz]

I always use hotdogs when I'm out of nonlinear resistors.

[@tinplategeek1058]

@@soundspark "hot dog is a non-linear load." and that is another phrase I thought I'd never see.

[@oida97]

Control Engineering Exam Question 1 Determine if the system hot dog is (1) linear (2) time-invariant.

[@RMunderscore01234]

@@tinplategeek1058 My hot dog produces non-linear loads.

[@mitchgordon8199]

I had one of those in the 70s -80s and the smell of burning pork was kinda crazy.

[@Mehithose]

is it smell good or bad? just curious

[@mitchgordon8199]

@@Mehithose bad I'd say, especially if left to cook to long.

[@bob_._.]

That's what she said

[@davidbwa]

My Childhood! I had one of these around 1971. As you said, no microwaves then. I was a latch key kid and many days I'd come home from school, make a couple of hotdogs in this thing and then go play / do chores whatever. And yes, you were overcooking them at first. For what it's worth, I don't recall ever scrubbing it with steel wool. I'd clean it of course, but I never had to polish up the points. I'm sure I cooked hundreds of hot dogs in that thing.

[@98Timothy]

As a electrician I have to say your doing God's work.

[@ABaumstumpf]

hot plate => ~700W heating up several hotdogs and a pot full of water. HotDogger => 6 mini hotdogs and pumping nearly 2kW directly into them, nothing wasted on outside water. Perfect for a fast snack in the morning.

[@azyfloof]

I imagine it's far more efficient, too! :D 15 seconds, as opposed to a couple of minutes waiting for water to boil :)

[@tommcewan7936]

As long as you don't want to cook *anything* else at the same time - as soon as you turn on the stove to cook other stuff, there's no reason to waste time on this thing.

[@RANDALLOLOGY]

Gives a whole new meaning to FAST food. Lol

[@rossmckenzie1854]

@@RANDALLOLOGY : "fast food".... what an oxymoron!

[@imark7777777]

Just don't accidentally step on it while it's cooking AKA George Foreman Grill the office

[@kuhrd]

I still have a slightly newer version of the hot dogger and I used to use it several times a week. Now it only sees use occasionally but it still works just as well as the day I bought it. I also live in Wisconsin only a couple hours drive from where they used to manufacture them. Still an amazingly simple and effective appliance.

[@beez1717]

I genuinely want this to cook hot dogs because of how geeky it feels to me. That, and because 5 hot dogs in a minute is just wonderful sounding

[@DonDayR]

I was in sixth grade when my parents bought one of these contraptions. I think they threw it out after I made my own with a spare power cord wrapped around two nails. It worked but I'll bet my implementation was scary as hell to them. I'm still alive, thankfully.

[@RWBHere]

4 times the power at twice the voltage. Which means that 15 seconds should be long enough. Thanks Clive.

[@cyan_oxy6734]

Power is voltage times current. So double the voltage is double the power.

[@TheMADTATER]

@@cyan_oxy6734 you've missed the fact that current increases as voltage does so long as the resistance stays the same. So with a given hot dog (or any resistance), if you double the voltage the current will double as well, thus the power increases by a factor of 4.

[@Mustakari]

Ah, the good old ohm-sausage. The method I am familiar with requires two forks and a stripped cord. They say the ends have a metallic flavor.

[@carrottopadc2602]

I watch your videos mainly because of your lovely voice. Keep up your lovely work

[@harrickvharrick3957]

Still in very good shape after 60+ or so years! Especially that crystal-clear plastic!

[@lostjohnny9000]

A schoolfriend once arrived to class with a charred hole through his thumb. He had been removing a blown fuse from his CB radio supply whilst still connected to 240VAC.

[@gregorythomas333]

Ouch...that stings :)

[@user2C47]

At least the carbon stopped the bleeding. It is still a bad Idea to put 240VAC at more than a few mA across one's finger.

[@lostjohnny9000]

I remember him saying the radio started working while his finger was was stuck in the contacts!

[@gregorythomas333]

LMAO :)

[@AgentTasmania]

Slapped for stupidity by Thor

[@theotherwalt]

okay.... canned hot dogs, I am at a loss for words. I did laugh at "Let's start hot doggin'" You need some kinds of 70s upbeat hot dog cooking music.

[@splo1nger909]

Really cheap ones too lol

[@InnSewerAnts]

That's how you usually see them where I live, canned or in a jar :') ( :( ? ). Does it really matter if it's canned or not if the base product is essentially scraps? "Hot dogs" can be made of pork, beef, chicken, turkey or any combination thereof according to wiki. You know, whatever was left laying around it seems. I guess we just get crap american style hot dogs in stores here. My description of "American style hot dogs" in stores over here, cheap to not cheap all the same: Tasteless, hence drown in condiments, no bite or texture, basically just decomposes on touch, looks like they took the additive "pink slime" and just filled an entire sausage casing with it and boiled it. It's not the same in the US? Curious now. I like Frankfurter Würstchen though, but those have nothing to do with hot dogs really. Not over here (next to Germany).

[@jeepmanxj]

Here in the US super cheap hotdogs are as you describe. Some of the better ones have more bite and are akin to the red skinned bologna you would get at the deli, except a milder taste.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Yep, canned hot dogs. I'm not sure if I could even try them, and I don't know why lol. I think it's just because I can't stand just about ANY canned meat. "Potted Meat" is something from a nightmare for me.

[@theotherwalt]

@@InnSewerAnts Canned meats frighten me. I don't think I have seen any canned hot dogs in the USA except for cocktail wieners which are very small and meant to be eaten with a toothpick. You can get some better sausages and hot dogs from the deli. It probably doesn't make a difference if it is sealed in plastic or in a can but I am not used to seeing a lot of canned meats. I can think of a few but it is a small assortment.

[@simonro9168]

Frying a hotdog like that was how our 8th grade physics teacher taught us not to mess around with electricity: "Now imagine that was your flesh. Be careful!"

[@haramanggapuja]

Back in my days at the R.L. Drake radio factory running the TR7 on night shift, our supervisor, N8BFB, ran two brass nails thru a plank of pine, fastened a power cable to ‘em & we took tuns making hot dogs. Quite an experiment in resistance vs current flow. Strangely we never blew a fuse on that adventure. It took a co-worker’s home brew HF linear amp to do that ;-). Never came to us to use the amplifier’s B+ to sizzle hot dog, though.

[@autogolazzojr7950]

You could also rectify the voltage going in, so any electrolysis or other chemical reactions are not cancelled out by ac. You'll get different liquids flowing out of each terminal and possibly some chlorine gas from the salt.

[@RalphInRalphWorld]

yummy

[@jhsevs]

This is actually very interesting.

[@autogolazzojr7950]

@@jhsevs It's fun. Putting Dc current through water will yield you hydrogen and oxygen. Adding salt will yield Chlorine.

[@anullhandle]

@@autogolazzojr7950 , people here sometimes convert their swimming pool to salt water so they don't have "nasty" chemicals like chlorine then instead plug the sanatizer in that makes ...... err chlorine :)

[@ParotandArmorfinish]

I actually like the fact that it's cooking it from the center out

[@Xw3dn3sd4yX]

This made my day :D the medieval hot dog torture chamber combined with the real-time taste testing was fun to watch

[@anorakus8272]

"Do you expect me to talk?" "Why no Mr Hotdog I expect you to be piping hot in about 30 seconds" ⚡⚡⚡

[@Xw3dn3sd4yX]

@@anorakus8272 😂

[@jhill4874]

I had one of these. Fairly safe and very easy to use. Faster and easier than a microwave. Mine had the hotdog part slide in from the side. Less complicated than this one.

[@diamondback662]

We had one of these. Gave hot dogs that unique electrocuted flavor.

[@problemwithauthority]

I made the garage version of this over 50 years ago. It worked well and my younger brothers and sisters thought it was magic. A few things I learned. 1. The hot dogs are big juicy resistors. 2.The more big juicy resistors you have in the circuit, the faster they cook. Six cook faster than one. 3. Very important... DO NOT TOUCH THE BIG JUICY RESISTOR. As they heat up they will start to sweat, and for a kid it is tempting to touch it....Don't do it.

[@takafumiarisawa70]

You touched the big juicy resistor didn't you...don't feel too bad about it lad, I would've done the same and more than once.

[@drasco61084]

LMFAO what? This hot dog cooker is wild, I've never seen one of these

[@nacoran]

My dad was a physics teacher. When I was a little kid he made a solar mirror hot dog cooker as a demonstration for one of his classes. I remember being really upset when he decided it was to big to go in the moving van when we moved. He had a home made oscilloscope too. We tried to grill a tofu hot dog once. It melted. The dog wouldn't even eat it. I bet one of the cheese filled hot dogs would make a real mess in those. I wonder if you can send hot dogs internationally... I remember a funny thread on a harmonica site where someone was trying to trade venison jerky for a harmonica but they weren't sure it was going to make it through customs.

[@PatrickOTreat]

Not as spectacular as Barry Lewis’s overpowered grilled cheese toaster, but probably more edible.

[@sideshowrod1312]

Exactly!! That was so funny - I was screaming at the screen :-D

[@markjempson6608]

a Barry, Jeavons, Ashens and Clive collaboration is needed now

[@billcasey2340]

I remember that hotdog cooker,my mom would use it on hotdog Saturdays circa 1970 ,bring s back happy memories. Thanks Clive.

[@joemengler1666]

Bill Casey excellent 👍🏻

[@MrMokokokoloko]

Very nostalgic video. I forgot about these things and remember using one as a kid. I do remember there was a distinct aroma and flavor that only comes from electrocuted hot dogs; something about how the ends would burn slightly. I can somehow smell and taste them to this day. I have to go find one now...

[@ameunier41]

I'm considering cooking hot dog in my garage using some scrap wire.

[@slymind4919]

Lead. The rails are made of lead. might make the canned hotdogs taste better though :) fun vid, Clive, keep it up!

[@stonedsavage7814]

Not lead. It's zinc just like die cast metal cars.