Most delicious way to cook wieners?

[Rubycon]

Haha yeah, I'm surprised that worked tbh, it's not like they are strategically placed so they get a complete circuit. Guess the electricity is just flowing in all sorts of directions in that wiener

Just goes to show you it's dangerous to touch a wiener that's being prepared.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

I cook hotdogs for my physics class each year. We're in the states, so it's 120V. The video of last year's hotdogs is somewhere on the school's website, but I don't know where they put it. I about died laughing when one of my students did the scene from the Green Mile: "Electricity shall now be passed through your body until you are dead, in accordance with state law. May God have mercy on your soul."

We wire the hotdogs up in parallel & series circuits. As predicted, it takes just slightly more than 4 times as long to cook 2 hotdogs in a series circuit vs. 2 in a parallel circuit. (Time measured from when the switch is thrown to when the Ball Park franks "plump" and the skin rips open.)

edit: and despite what Rubycon posted, I frequently have students who claim they were the best tasting hotdogs they've had in a long time. No "funny" taste to them at all, unless there's arcing at the electrodes (nails)

Why couldn't have you been my physics teacher?

 

[Locut0s]

You should use platinum wires for best results. 316 stainless steel is an adequate substitute.

If you can you should repeat the results with higher voltage.

The brand name may have influence as well. I have not done this in years.

I've burned various foodstuffs with lasers but it just ablates the surface and makes holes in it.

Never ate anything from these type of experiments either because of the severe charring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ktAMeRKv8

We need o get JohnCU involved and see what dogs cooked with reactor fuel rods taste like!

 

[Locut0s]

:hmm: Yeah there are a decent number of Asians, although I don't know if they're Chinese or otherwise. They all look alike to me I maintain my position that that sounds absolutely revolting, and you've confirmed my suspicion that it looks awful too.

FAIL ALERT, FAIL ALERT...

Sorry but egg drop soup has got to be one of my favourite soups. Absolutely delicious!!!

Especially the way my mother makes it with creamed corn, yummmmmmm:

 

[Bignate603]

Wrap in bacon, fry in bacon fat.

This. Fry them until the bacon gets crispy. It helps to use some toothpicks to hold the bacon on until the bacon starts to hold its shape. I like to wrap kosher dogs in bacon, food taste best when it's ironic.

 

[Born2bwire]

Oh and BTW the shocking thing DOES work and is fast but you know it doesn't taste the same. It's hard to explain. I cooked one for a friend and she said it tasted electrocuted! I thought that was hilarious because I don't know what electricity tastes like. It reminded me when someone complains their food tastes funky and when asked they reply with "it tastes like chemicals". Ugh.

So perhaps the fastest way but not the tastiest. I guess it depends on your likes and toppings. We were eating them naked no buns or anything so any funkiness would've been easier to taste as well.

Stepping up the voltage just causes breakdown to occur faster (as seen near the end of the video) however that was at line voltage. Going several kilovolts and 1-2A (thousands of watts) and getting a sudden breakdown causes an expulsion of flaming bits of beef and hog intestine which some may find quite gross.D:

Mmmm... Jacob's Ladder Kabobs.

Bah, I have never found cooking to impart any real taste to hot dogs. It's the dog that matters, get your ass some Vienna Beef hot dogs.

 

[DrPizza]

I forgot to answer earlier - Ball Park Franks, 120 Volts (usually measured to actually be 117-118 volts), roughly 1 minute and 30 seconds until they burst (sign that they're done) unless there's a bad connection between the nails & the hotdog. The key is to have the nails nice & clean when you start, nails at the ends of the hotdog perpendicular to the length of the hotdog (passing all the way through) and the hotdog slightly under compression between the nails to maintain a good contact as it cooks.

2 hotdogs cooked in series: slightly over 6 minutes. I attribute the not-quite 4 times the time to cook hotdogs in parallel to a longer cooking time gives them more time to radiate away some of the heat.

 

[eplebnista]

Boil in water.

 

[SunSamurai]

Weener = Grilled over coals wrapped in white bread or bun and dipped in your choice. Relish, cheese, katsoup, mayo, onions, bacon, chili, etc.

The egg soup stuff isnt bad if in chicken broth with chicken breast and taters/veg

 

[surfsatwerk]

What sadist willingly chooses to boil meat?

 

[SunSamurai]

What sadist willingly chooses to boil meat?

The sick bastard soup lovers?

 

[slag]

WTF??

Poached eggs look like perfection... and taste awesome on English Muffins.

I'm an egg eater, and that looks disgusting. A runny yolk is an uncooked and potentially unhealthy egg. Always.. ALWAYS crack the yolk and make it hard before you eat it so its cooked through, not raw like that picture shows.

runny=uncooked.

 

[KMFJD]

In the microwave when i'm lazy, on the bbq when it's nice out, in the frying pan when i have ambition, boiled when i'm bored...

 

[DT4K]

Hot dogs should always be cooked on the grill, or if that's not possible, at least in a hot frying pan, with a touch of butter. You've got to brown the outside to make them good.

Boiling sucks.

And yeah, I like egg drop soup, but wtf dude, you don't put hot dogs in it. And the stuff I've had always tasted like it was made with stock (chicken or vegetable), not just water.

 

[JDub02]

best: on a stick over a fire, burnt to perfection
runner-up: on a grill, burnt to perfection.

 

[moshquerade]

 

[sandorski]

I'm an egg eater, and that looks disgusting. A runny yolk is an uncooked and potentially unhealthy egg. Always.. ALWAYS crack the yolk and make it hard before you eat it so its cooked through, not raw like that picture shows.

runny=uncooked.

You make me sad.....

 

[kalrith]

I grill mine when I have buns. If I had no buns but did have chili, pork & beans, etc., then I'd chop them up and cook them in there.

 

[geno]

I'm an egg eater, and that looks disgusting. A runny yolk is an uncooked and potentially unhealthy egg. Always.. ALWAYS crack the yolk and make it hard before you eat it so its cooked through, not raw like that picture shows.

runny=uncooked.

WTF are you smoking? Yolk can be runny with no substantial health risk. You aren't an egg eater if you think yolks have to be cooked through

 

[ElFenix]

best = smoked

runner up = whatever papaya king does to theirs, those are great

 

[Rubycon]

I forgot to answer earlier - Ball Park Franks, 120 Volts (usually measured to actually be 117-118 volts), roughly 1 minute and 30 seconds until they burst (sign that they're done) unless there's a bad connection between the nails & the hotdog. The key is to have the nails nice & clean when you start, nails at the ends of the hotdog perpendicular to the length of the hotdog (passing all the way through) and the hotdog slightly under compression between the nails to maintain a good contact as it cooks.

2 hotdogs cooked in series: slightly over 6 minutes. I attribute the not-quite 4 times the time to cook hotdogs in parallel to a longer cooking time gives them more time to radiate away some of the heat.

Try this with other brands or home made (natural casing). Natural casings are much stronger (they are hog intestines!) so if you have good contact some interesting things can happen. (these of course will be inedible unless you really like weird tasting food!)

Another thing to try is a different power source. DC at 150+ V, 400Hz (aircraft power), and high frequency, high voltage (large TV flyback) although I'd suspect current limiting would be immediate. Of course 500watts is still enough for a well done wiener in short order.

A crown I-tech amplifier can produce over 200V on its output terminals! With a signal generator or synthesizer on its input one has quite the range of power including waveform shape, and frequency! One can even use a music signal to see what cooks faster and with better taste. I'm willing to bet Eminem will cook faster but with more of an "electric grain" taste than Beethoven's 9th. :hmm:

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Microwave.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Put a little butter in a skillet and just heat them up in the melted butter letting the butter caramelize and brown them a bit. I like Hebrew National hot dogs and Ballpark buns the best. Warm the buns in the microwave for about 10 seconds to soften it up a bit and enjoy with your favorite condiments!

 

[BurnItDwn]

Make a bonfire, Put the dogs on skewers, heat over open flames until properly charred.

 

[clamum]

Microwave.

That's how I roll, and they taste fine to me.