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The Best Way To Cook Hot Dogs: by Tesla Coil [Zap]

Posted May 06, 2008 8:37 AM

From Gizmodo:

The most exiting way to cook hot dogs: connect a chain of 12 of them up and send bolts of multi-thousand-volt electricity through them. Awesome, and all thanks to the Nevada Lightning Lab and their 10-foot Tesla coil at Maker Faire '08. And amazingly, the coil they used is just a prototype for a 122-foot version they want to build for lightning experiments. Imagine the light show and cookability you'd get from that!

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05/07/2008 12:19 AM

The video was not very if at all spectacular.

From the sound it appeared to be either a Wimshurst machine or a Van de graff HV generator instead of a tesla coil.

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05/07/2008 1:32 AM

"..bolts of multi thousand volt electricity through them.."

Obviously not a lot of electrical knowledge hiding inside that reporter.

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05/07/2008 7:55 AM

"Multi thousand volt electricity" is the politically correct version. "Mega", or "kila" can be construed as being boastful. "Micro" or "Mili" is to small and may make voltages feel inferior. I am curious of the research that Tesla did on the "cookability" of the Wardencliff tower. Please don't take me wrong , I am all for the roasting of meats in new and exciting ways. I would be willing to taste test some "laser" cooked hot dogs, only if they agree to use lower powered "sub-multi wattage lasers" .

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05/07/2008 8:27 AM

Sure, this is cool - but there is no way that it tastes as good as hotdogs cooked over an open fire.

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05/07/2008 8:50 AM

I do agree 100% . I am thinking a nice bed of glowing oak, with a bit of apple or peach tree wood smoking the delightful dogs.

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05/07/2008 11:55 AM

Yum!!

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Re: The Best Way To Cook Hot Dogs: by Tesla Coil [Zap]

05/08/2008 10:39 PM

Definitely a Van de Graaf machine.

And there are far cheaper and more eco-friendly ways to cook the meat.

Disappointing, really, because of the poor definition.

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