The HOTDOGGER | 1970s hot dog electrocutor | Does it Work? 

i love how Emmy's sponsored videos are still fun and just like the rest of her videos, not forced and boring

Am I the only one curious about what other things you could electrocute? Chicken Filets? Carrots? Eggplant? You should do a series "Will it 'cute?"

I love it! I had one in 1973. It was a different model that I think did 6 hot dogs, and it was rectangular with a flat instead of curved top. I used that thing so many times! I was 15, and won it at my first job when the place was brand new and had a day of giving all the staff prizes. Thanks for this video!

My husband loved that machine. We got one at a garage sale after we were married in the late 70's. I thought it was a bit dumb. Considering very few people had microwave ovens at that time any fast cookery machine was novel. We got our first microwave in 78/79 it took up most of an entire counter it was so large and bulky. lol

"How would you describe heaven?" "I am enveloped in hot dog vapors"

hehehe emmy i hope u gave those hotdogs a fair trial befor u electrocuted them

Emmy you could make glasses made of cardboard held together with Duct tape Look amazing

We had one of these when I was a kid, was a fun thing on Friday night. That and a bottle of Pepsi and Friday night tv shows nothing better! The glasses look great!

A 'Hot Dogger' conjours a different image here in Britain where 'Dogging' is, well, something else entirely.

Emmy, you should try the chilean version of hot dogs, they are called: completos :) just add smashed avocado, chopped tomato cubes and mayonesse, its the favourite street food here in chile and its delicious, you will not regret ;) this recipe its called: completo italiano, its the most common, and its called like that because of the colors of the italian flag... Im writing too much, but id really love you watching you eating a completo ♥️♥️♥️ also you can add some aditional sauces like ketchup, mustard, and whatever you like. Just enjoy the flavor of hot dog with avocado and tomato and mayo, you will not regret i promisse♥️♥️♥️

Emmy: "Look honey, this machine electrocutes weenies!" Emmy's husband: *chuckles nervously*

We had something similar when I was young. I was 11yo in 1977 so that's about the right time. We always found they made the center warm but left the outside cool, maybe we didn't cook them long enough.

I bought one of these back in the early 70's!! I was in my 20's and worked in a small office. I bought one and took it to work and we used to have hot dogs for lunch all the time. It worked perfectly.

Had one of these when I was growing up. Worked fine. Not the best way to cook a dog but it worked. Emmy, you cracked me up by saying 'Super fun electrocuting a hot dog.'

All the glasses look great on you. Specially liked the last one

It is almost a rarity that a person comes by that uploaded something that you had an used ,but were never seeking it out. That goes to show that most of the YT content will never be seen until months or years after it was uploaded, or maybe never.

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I had a Hot Dogger when I was in grade school. I used it all the time. I credit it for starting my love of cooking, and the inherent science-violence of the thing delighted the rascal in me. I was a boy, what can I say? Also, nobody really had microwaves in the 70s and early 80s--they were huge and expensive--so this was a really cool alternative to using the stove. No adult supervision needed!

I had one of those, took it to college in 1971! A couple of things I learned, after awhile the prongs corrode, you can snap the metal parts out of the plastic housing and clean the prongs with a wire brush. Also if you leave it plugged in too long you will incinerate the ends of the hot dogs!

I have to admit, we had one of those. Lol we were so excited for a new gadget!!!!! I remember the ends of the hot dogs got pretty hot but the middle, not quite. This brought back some good memories lol. We were easily amused back in the 70s😀

We used to have one of those, its like a torture chamber for hot dogs and leaves burnt holes in the ends, but it is fun to watch. We had one in the 70s

Before this product came out, I made one using a sanded coat hanger and just plugged it in. The hot dog is a variable resistor and when the moisture is cooked out, the current automatically stops, This works but be ware of shocks since it isn't shielded.

Years ago I was at a picnic where the barbecue pit had a power outlet. Someone mentioned that pickles turn fluorescent when you plug them in, and someone else said, "I wonder what happens when you plug in a hot dog? Next thing ya know, someone grabs a hot dog, and someone else sticks two paper clips into one end. As for how to plug it in, that's when every eye in the group turned to the one guy with an artificial arm. He wound up putting the hot dog in the artificial arm, them removed the artificial arm and plugged it in. The hot dog kind of buzzed with a 60 cycle hum. It didn't really cook, but it was only plugged in on one end. Somewhere we have video of this.

I think we had one of those back in the 70s. They were pretty fun. Nowadays though, microwaves are ubiquitous, so I couldn't see the need for a stand-alone device that would give you a hot dog that's not all that different from a microwaved one.

I'm craving hot dog now

Omgoodness! I remember this HOTDOGGER thing because my friend's parents had it. I recall going to her house for lunch and her dad was making us lunch with this and the news of Elvis death came over the radio.

I had one if those back in 1983. It was a wedding shower gift. I only used it a few times.

We made something like this in grade school using an old electrical cord and some nails pushed through a cardboard egg carton. worked great!

Stick a pickle in it..Not to eat,but just to watch the light show. :) I DIY'd something like this once during a power outage+snow storm. I used a 300 Watt power inverter,12 Volt SLA battery,a couple forks,and an old power cord from something. Highly dangerous,but it was hot food when I was starving,and unable to cook anything else,or leave the house to get more food. I think I got the idea from watching Mr.Wizard,many years ago.

They also had the Presto Burger long before the Foreman grill came out. We had the Presto Burger and the Hot Dogger. They were great for a family of 7 when at the time microwaves were a major restaurant investment.

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i had one. loved it. yes they actually tasted like they sat them in an elecric chair. they would split and be burned a little on the ends where the hotdogs got punctured. i still have my presto burger tho.

thanks for the memories. i made one of these out of an old vhs rewinder when in was in high school. the results were pretty much the same and i could never get it properly clean so it was a one and done. fun build though.

Dorm cooking?!? No way! I love the dachshund on the cooker!

Also a handy way to teach your children how the electric chair works.

I own one of these!! bought it at the local flea market for $2.00! I cant wait to show my kids!!

Cooking a hotdog over a campfire is most defiantly the most superior. Hands down. But in the name of science!! I truly enjoy this idea. Lol

I love all the glasses you picked but I think the first clear ones are my fav!!! 😍

All of the glasses look great on you Emmy.. but if I had to choose a favorite set of frames... It would be the Amsterdam set... They really compliment the lines of your face well and draw attention to and keep it on your eyes... Keep up the great work on your channel... Love your videos and look forward to each new video you release...

Those rounded frames really suit you. I remember seeing TV commercials for the hot dog electrocutor when I was a kid. I'm surprised they still have new old stock available.

We had one of those when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. It was fun to watch them sizzle and they tasted pretty good as I remember it. Microwaves weren't really that common at the time and this was a quick and easy way to cook up some dogs.

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hotdog vapour facial!! 😂😂

Pretty cool. Back when I worked at the radio factory, one of the guys found some brass nails. He put 'em in a plank of wood, hooked up a power cord to it, stuck a hot dog across the nails & plugged it in. (Yeah, it was super dangerous: if you plugged it in & touched the nails, you'd get electrocuted.) . . . We found that (a) the internal resistance of the hot dog increases the longer it stays electrocuted. Thus it will reach a point where it is cooked beyond edible. Like crispy-crittered big time. Reducing the voltage proved Ohm's Law and the hot dog "cooked" more slowly but the internal resistance just too longer to reach the highest point, whereupon the hot dog no longer passed current. You could watch the voltage rise from beginning to end as the resistance went up. One of the guys figured out a formula for the point where the hot dog was cooked enough to still be edible. Wish I'd kept that chart ;-) . . . Good ol' electricity. Lord Rutherford was right: After physics, everything else is stamp collecting. Or hot dog cooking.

I was just watching a 1976 episode of a game show called Gambit and one of their contestant prizes was... the Presto hot dogger. "Cooks 1 to 5 hot dogs in just 60 seconds. Easy to use and easy to clean. The Presto hot dogger."

This is a newer version of the original hot dogger that we had when i was a kid. I loved this thing. I can still remember the electronic burnt ozone smell!

So as it happens, I watched this yesterday morning then went to a Thanksgiving at the house of a man who worked at Presto for over 50 years. He had fond memories of the Hot Dogger and said they sold something like a million of them, building them for 30¢ and selling them for $6.

we had one of these growing up...think it was a Christmas gift...remember the dachshund logo on the top of it...we had a pedigreed dachshund at the time so that was fun

True - you "could" do something similar in a microwave, but in 1970 ish residential microwaves weren't really affordable in the household... sooooo..... viola! The Hotdogger gave you the only choice for really quick hot dogs.

Got one by Product Specialties, Hot Dog Cooker model 1315-51 for 25 cents at a yard sale 15 - 20 years ago. No date on paper work. A bit smaller than yours, original price sticker $3.96, that store closed July '82.

Had this in my parent's house in the 70s. They don't last long. Luckily we lived in NYC so there was a Sabrett hot dog cart across the street. Dirty water dogs ftw.

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I haven't seen those hot dog cookers! I had one in high school back in 1984! Cool!

After much thought, I remembered that cooker. I recall giving those hotdogs the "Capital punishment".... [LOL]

I had one of those in the ‘80s. It was a great after school snack

1977, a buddy of mine lived right across the street from the high school so we would go to his house for lunch everyday. His mom would fire-up the HOTDOGGER, and we would enjoy ourselves some electrocuted hot dogs ah...simpler times.

My parents were SICK because as kids my parents bought one of these for my brother and I to use so we could cook our own lunches when we were kids!!! The SICK PART was they seldom bought hot dogs so we didn't use our Hotdogger, as much as you'd think we would have, and I bet to this day the one we had is STILL sitting in the kitchen cupboard of my mom's house having only been used a few times!!!

My family had one of these. Terrible invention. It was one of those inventions in search of a non existent problem. How hard is it to heat up a hot dog? It was one of those things you gave or received as a gift, used once or twice, then put away forever.

We had that exact model!!! I was so excited when we first got it. but they didn't taste great when electrocuted.

My homemade version uses two forks connected to the 120 volt AC.... Worked great

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Best way to make a hot dog, slice down the center and fill with cheese then wrap with bacon about half cooked under the broiler until done, so good. Or leave out the cheese and wrap it in raw bacon and deep fry. And don’t forget the coney sauce

We had one of these when I was a small boy The hotdogs did cook But they had burnt electrical flavor Especially where it was touching the metal There is a reason why every household doesn’t have one of these

"Impale it." Sounded hilarious, then I got really scared.

My mom had one when I was a kid we used it alot. It worked great

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the last glass looks really good on you!

Even though this is over 40 years old do they still make machines like this? Only 2 minutes for hot dogs is amazingly quick. I want something like this for lazy/tired days.

Gosh Emmy you're the cutest! Nothing beats a grilled hot dog on a lightly toasted bun. If you don't have a grill you can use a cast iron skillet. My favorite is Black Bear skinless beef hot dogs. Not that Nathans or Oscar Meyer crap...

I loved this growing up. We called it the zapper.

It definitely works. Our family had one in the 1950s.

Fun video as always! In SoCal, those top horizontal cut hotdog buns are called, “medianoche.” In Spanish, translates to “midnight.” I don’t know the backstory to the name.

Hotdog cookers are just for fun I think. If I want quick dogs I just toss them in a sealed container, cook in a microwave 60s, rotate and another 60s. Fast and easy hotdogs. Little bit of spicy ketchup and I'm a happy dude!

Just wondering if you ever keep any gadgets you test within your rotation for use in your kitchen day to day? Maybe you could do a video on which ones you have actually kept around

I remember this thing as a child, made some good hot dogs. I was surprised to see it on youtube.

In the 1970s (as I well remember) they didn't have the longer, skinnier hot dogs. It's clearly designed for the shorter, fatter ones. :-)

they all look great on you Emmy!!

I got a Weenie Wheel for my rotisserie attachment to my vintage charcoal grill. It also fits the vintage Sears counter top rotisserie I have. All of them from Ebay.

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Emmy just can’t stop laughing at the absurdity of this product. My Dad actually had one of these things. It was a gift from someone. It worked for its advertised purpose. But cooking hot dogs was all it did. Maybe you could use it to cook other frankfurter-shaped foods (bananas? dill pickle spears? small lobsters?), but I never heard of anyone cooking anything but hot dogs or bratwursts with the Hot Dogger. And there are about 100 other ways to cook a hot dog. The Hot Dogger is also harder to clean than, say, a frying pan or a saucepan that you’ve cooked weenies in. It might be worth having if you eat hot dogs every day, but who eats hot dogs every day? This brand, Presto, sold a lot of single-purpose small appliances like the Hot Dogger. I think there was a donut maker and an ice cream maker and a corn popper. The corn popper was popular. But the ubiquity of microwave ovens has evaporated most of the market for home corn poppers. It’s faster, easier, and less messy to pop corn in a microwave, and the corn tastes just as good. So, as always, think long and hard before you acquire a device that does what a frying pan does, but takes up extra space in the kitchen.

Had one of these back in the early 70s. Hot dogs always tasted electric

emmymadeinjapan you should try some natural casing 'dogs in this machine and see how they come out!

I like the last glasses. Deep fried hotdogs. No ketchup on hotdogs.

I use my tea kettle and a bowl. Get the water to a boil and then pour it over the franks in a bowl. Let it sit while I get the buns and condiments and whatever else. They come out like boiled street vendor dogs.

I'm not from the 70s but I remember this in my childhood in the 90s

I have this hot-dog electrocuter. I have had it for nearly 60 years.

I had one as a kid and hell yes it works and faster then a microwave !!

We had one of these growing up. Us kids always bought mom something like this. We had a burger maker too, like a waffle iron without the grid. This thing ruined hot dogs. They tasted like metal.

Those kind of buns look really good!

Electrical saftey vids often feature hot dogs proxy fingers to show the results of touching high voltage live parts. They usually blow up.

Hade one when in school 78 we did eat a lot of hot dogs we called them zap dogs . Love your show

Emm, have you experienced the Puka Dog? It’s my go to for best hotdogs. Started in th 00’s on Kauai, the place does polish sausage on a handmade roll which they skewer on a specially made pike over the grill so the insides are toasted and add special House made sauce combos! I love it so much that in one short trip I ate 8 separate times there.... AND... I had the sauces shipped to me where I bought a tiny curling iron to do the buns up right and served to my friends who couldn’t join us! If you have an interest in giving it a try let me know and I’ll get to sauces and the how to to you!

I had one of these, after a while the plastic tabs that hold the metal electrodes broke, rendering it useless. cooked hotdogs fine. we used a similar method in college. cut the female end off a small extension cord, strip the plastic off the ends and wrap on two metal forks. poke each fork into each end of said hotdog, plug cord into wall, et voila, cooked dogs....

Those things were fantastic!

I like those ray bans those were really cute and I like those clear glasses 🤓

I used one when I was a kid it worked great.

I remember having this contraption but I don't recall if our family ever used it 😂

I remember when this item was advertised on TV.

I looked online and haven't been able to find it my mom has a hot dog steamer I think it was made by Sunbeam. It looks like a little dog house he reminds me of Snoopy's house because the basis weight in the top that comes out is the roof and it's red. You take the roof off and put a little bit of water in the base which is a little metal catch basin and then there's a steamer rack how many 4/5 hot dogs at once. And you can set the rules on the roof and it's vented steamed rolls as well. My dad bought it Heartland grocery store or Pharmacy in Walpole Massachusetts in the early 80s. We were visiting my aunt's and we were there for Christmas. So my dad got a couple of things free under the tree from Santa. That was one of the gifts that he got for my mom

I had to like this video because your smile made me smile.