I actually
have a book of electrical things for boys to make which
suggests makine a sausage cooker that simply connects said sausages
across the (110V) mains. Hmmm....
You really need a scanner - I'd love to see that :-)
When I was in university (70s), I had a hot-dog cooker which cooked
weiners by connecting them across the 110v AC mains. This was a
commercially produced device.
The device looked like a 1/2 cylinder with a same-shape drawer that you
could remove from one end. When removed the drawer had points along
the sides where the round part of the cylinder meets the flat part of the
cross section, angled such that you could put up to 6 weiners with an
end at matching points, and each would curve up in an arc inside the half
cylinder (you had to push the weiner into the points so that they penetrated
into the end). When you inserted the drawer full of meat into the outer shell
contacts on one end would connect each row of poins with one side of the
AC mains (the idea was that the points were not powered until the drawer
was fully inserted, thus preventing body contact with electrically hot points.
It actually worked, but much better for some brands of weiners. (Some
were not very conductive at all) - you would get very odd looks from
store owners when you asked which weiners were most conductive.
Regards,
Dave
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