Honestly I didn't see anyone other than me comment about the steak idea. But I'm glad you did it anyway. I think we're just scratching the surface here with the hotdogger.
Mr. Sausage, a tiny spray of oil on a paper towel smeared on the inside of the hotdogger will help keep some of that moisture from obscuring the science. A tiny TINY amount of oil is all you need on the paper towel.
you know i think this might be the opposite of what you want out of a steak. normally, you want a cooked outside with a rare inside. this is a cooked inside with a rare outside
can confirm that is part of the psoas major (filet minon or beef tenderloin) of a cow. im guessing people here could be sold any circle of beef wrapped in bacon.
The lesson here is, don't electrocute your steaks in a novelty device from the 1960s made to electrocute frankfurters. Thank you, Mr Sausage for your sacrifice.
The bill from the last time Mr. Sausage bought lobster makes up 7% of the US National Debt, we'll have to sell New Jersey to China if we want to afford any more lobster!
I think this is genuinely salvageable. Stop at 5 minutes, slap it on a grill or griddle or some such to give it a little crust before the meat gets totally over cooked.
Exposed metal connected to wall power will go wrong eventually. In other news when you use the Dogger to cook, it’s important to remember that the inside probably looks like the outside. Panko bread, for instance, is made by passing electricity through the dough which is why your Pablo crumbs don’t really have evidence of a crust.
I think you should put a sheet of aluminium foil between the spikes on the hotdogger - for good conductivity, and then sprinkle on POPCORN. See if / how quickly that cooks / gets out of hand.
Might be good to redo it with steak strips, where each strip just touches one terminal on each side. This looked like a 2-to-4 connection, which probably helped dissipate the current on the 4 side (depending on how resistances routed the current to different parts of the steak), which might be why it cooked so unevenly.
He hasn't dared to try to cook a Sausage in this. For if he did, and it did not burst, he knows he would find the Excalibur of sausages, and the long quest of this channel would be Over.
I like that you have a separate plug to act as a switch. This is basically the most terrifying thing Ronco ever marketed, and that is including the "Pocket Fisherman". Keep up the delightful work!
I was 15 years old when I bought one of those at a garage sale. Then when I tried to use it i produced such a weird smell that I chickened out and unplugged it and threw it away.
He’s getting his money’s worth from this machine. Gotta recoup the costs so he doesn’t end up in the same financial situation as the lobster sausage again
The tiny little area that was being cooked way more than anything else was acting as a resistor in the steak, taking all the heat instead of the rest of the steak. Its also gonna be well done because the current cooks all the way throughout. That's why electrical burns are the worst because it cooks you all the way through
Do a test spearing one hot dog along all the terminals on each side of the hot dogger to see if it cooks - if it does, then it means current can flow between same side spikes, meaning something in contact with multiple spikes on one side won't have current jumping the longer gap between sides and thus won't cook properly. Adds to the chaos but also informs what would be most fun to electrocute in the hot dogger (imo try corndogs and see if it adequately steams the cornbread coating as it cooks)
idk why anyone would think this would go any other way. Cooking it from the inside is obviously going to finish the inside before the outside. Considering steak is unsafe to eat while the outside is uncooked, you are never going to get anything better than well done.
