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| Richard Crowley:
Clive did mention that it is "an American novelty here". Both the hot-dogs as well as the gadget (sent from Canada). I was raised as a vegetarian and I have never knowingly eaten meat. (I'm sure I have consumed it several times along the way without knowing.) Even back in the mid previous century when I was a kid, there were fake hot-dogs made from gluten/tofu/whatever. But now there are several different brands of vege-hotdog. Both canned and vacuum-packed and refrigerated. Just yesterday at the office cafeteria, I enjoyed a couple of vege-hotdogs made from quinoa. Interesting that it seemed to operate on 240V much the same as over here on 120V. Probably at higher heat (because of the higher voltage) so cooks in 1/2 the time, but perhaps not as even as a longer time at lower voltage/temperature. |
| helius:
If the resistance was constant, you'd expect it to operate at 4x power (P = V2/R). But there could be some non-linear effects. |
| SeanB:
Here canned viennas are not exactly known as "food', and in the military they had a rather worse reputation, as the "mystery meat' of last resort, served when there was nothing else available, and the name given to them was worse. The standard pack is a precooked item in a shrink wrap, either frozen or defrosted, sold as ready to eat out of the pack, though you can buy better ones like Russian sausage, which has a taste to it other than salt with some mystery additive, and which is made from real meat by products, and not from every part of the cow other than the hooves and the horns ( though that is debatable) and the mystery "mechanically deboned chicken", which is a misnomer if ever there was one. Suggest you do not look how they are made if ever you want to eat them again. |
| rfeecs:
Mr. Wizard electrocutes a hot dog: Hot dogs are semiconductors! and full of resistors. At one point he grabs both forks, one in each hand. Fortunately he switched off the power first. |
| IanB:
Of course in Clive's latest video he cooked himself with mains electricity :o That was much more adventurous ;D |
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