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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Food Shocking Meat!
Posted by Patrick Alan Coleman on Tue, Nov 18 at 1:59 PM
Trust me when I tell you there are better, less deadly ways to cook a hot dog than plugging it into an outlet. Still, if you're a system administrator in Russia and rarely leave your desk, electrocuting your wiener probably provides the thrills that are normally lacking in your life.
This, friends, is a Frankensteinian way to cook meat: 
The ultimate geek blog Geekologie explains that 220-volts will be passed through this relatively harmless tube steak, finding it's way from one wired fork to the other. If you want to know how done it is, insert LEDS and wait patiently for them to glow:
I smell a concept restaurant coming on. I just wonder if it can get insured?
Thanks, Geekologie!
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You realize that Mr. Wizard was doing this exact thing on PBS 25 years ago, right?
Back in about 1975 I they actually sold a gadget that cooked hot dogs by electrocution... no kidding, I had one.
The thing was a plastic trough about as wide as a hotdog with small, sharp prongs sticking out of both sides. You stuck one end of the weiner over the prong on one side and the other end on the prong on the opposite side. The prongs were electrodes.
I don't remember how long you ran the juice, but when you fired up the machine it ran some sort of electric current through the hot dog and cooked it.
The only problem was that the hot dogs tasted like ozone.
True story.
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