As a Swiss person, I am deeply offended that Ebbers is ambivalent to table chefs. Joking aside, we almost exclusively use it to make fondue, so it is really a niche gadget but also essential to every good Swiss household. And I think it’s funny that people from other nations think of fondue and fondue equipment as vintage.
Ebbers: "Maths and physics says yes" Me (electrical engineer): Math and physics says that by doubling the voltage You also double the current, which effectivly quadriples the power / heat. Therefore there were two options: Hot Doggers wireing melts (not this case) or hot dog is done four times faster (15 seconds).
I think also though, even if they had stopped at 15 seconds, it would have had a texture problem. Faster cooking doesnt always yield the same results as cooking normally. General physics around heat transfer in general say that you could heat up anything very quickly by having a very hot object nearby but it probably isnt a smart idea to throw steaks into the sun. Most recipes are designed around the ideal spot where humans have accepted the trade-off between speed and quality
@@katherinegaymes With normal cooking methods you'd be right as the heat is coming from an external source and is transferred to the food, but in this case the hot dogs themselves are providing the electrical resistance (creating heat) and thus the heat is generated evenly throughout between the metal spikes, therefore 15sec on 240V should be equivalent of 60sec on 120V, but bearing in mind that every extra second on 240V is equivalent to 4 sec on 120V
I've been getting ads for an old school "electricity can kill you" sticker where a humanized bolt of electricity is holding a switchblade and is about to stab a child. It seemed very relevant.
If you read through some reviews some people complained about it not being peremantly connected. That's partical consumer error for not reading it's also a scoop. There are so many different ice trays I think "heavy cast" aluminium isn't going to be strong enough. Some kitchen gag should be investments. Depeneds why people need crushed ice, but I would just buy a powerful belnder that can also crush ice. It might be 50-150 USD depending if you get it on sale or not. This thing is like $20 USD. Not worth it even if reviews were good. Or buy a hammer for $5 USD and crush ice in a bag.
@@Sunny-ot1vo I would buy one because I like the design but the review that showed that the food safe coating could not stand up to ice or use turned me off it.
When I was around 6 or 7 (40 years ago) my mom bought one of the ice crushers at a yard sale… we used it for years. Growing up in the country it was always nice just to have crushed ice to eat on a hot summer day when I was little and we had no AC
Same... except we had to use a bag and a rolling pin/hammer (with a towel under). I still use a rolling pin. hahaha. I need one or a new blender that can crush ice.
The hotdogger works great. In the late 70's I used one in a concession stand. We didn't have large crowds, so you could cook the hotdogs as needed and the rest could stay in the cooler. The switch is the lid, close the lid it on, open the lid it's off.
You can tell me the lid is the on/off switch a thousand times, but I'm still unplugging it before I reach in and grab the conductive objects directly shorting two metal plates.
Ah yes, I remember in the 1970s when everyone had a fondue set as a centre piece on the dining table. The adults got together for a cheese fondue (once) then us kids got a chocolate fondue with mum and dad (once) then they were never used again.
Every Swiss soldier in the 1960s got one to prepare fondue when "camping". I don't recall if and when they stopped this. In Switzerland fondue without any classifying addition is always molten cheese. I still have several different kinds of these and use it regularly, especially when the weather is uninviting as in a famous Christmas song: "The weather outside is frightful and the fire's so delightful." If you have friends over for fondue, make sure they have a place to pend the night or can walk home. They definitely should *not* drive after fondue. Btw: I'm not Swiss.
I absolutely love how they still talk you through recipes even when they’re ancillary to the main part of the video. No other channel I watch does this and it really makes you feel like they love educating the masses about food
@@sypialnia_studio dogging in britain is basically having public sex, so a dogger is someone who partakes in dogging. You can see why a "Hot Dogger" Might get a laugh from a few lads
The Hot Dogger - When I was in high school one of the electricity/electronics book had this as a project. Never built it as I thought there were easier ways to cook a hot dog.
We had a Hot Dogger in the '70s. The hotdogs would be overcooked -- split and burned at the ends -- and had a terrible metallic taste. You have activated a perfect sensory memory almost 50 years old!
Please bring back 'Big Nights In', even just for a one-off special episode, it is the reason I started following you and still one of my favourite series you have ever made.
Imagining James would have gotten the Hot Dogger completely destroyed as fast as he could at least by the time the fire starting potential became obvious. That thing was scary!
There is actually very little chance of fire with this device. Electrocution, yes, but not fire. This device is just a glorified extension cord with one end exposed. Hot dogs don't burn well.
BigClive did a teardown video of the Hot Dogger before on his channel. Its pretty much the equivalent to sticking some coat hanger wire into your outlets and using the hot dogs to connect the two.
They made the mistake of just halving the time on doubling the voltage. Assuming the resistance of the hotdog does not change, doubling the voltage would produce 4 times the heat, so it should have just been a quarter of the time.
"You wouldn't want to keep one at home". As a Swiss person, I'm offended. Everyone has at least one at home and ours usually are made out of cast iron and look way more vintage than this
French cheese lover here, and I can easily say that this fondue set is THE gadget I would love to have among all the ones you've reviewed. It looks really nice and it's still there, half a century old.
power scales with the square of voltage, meaning it would take a 4th of the time...ish, do watch big clives videon on it, its great, has more smoke and angry pixies jumping out of the machine
@@lainwired3946 heat loss scales with voltage squared so in theory doubling the potential quarters the time to impart the necessary power but probably doesn't translate to a well cooked item, just like in a microwave, heat has to disperse. Most likely you'd get sausages with very burnt insides and raw outsides. Try e planning that to your dinner guests!!
That Hot Dogger was a horror. The dogs came out tasting like they'd hung off Ben Franklin's kite. If you can imagine what a hot dog which had been struck by lightning may taste like, it's one from that gadget.
That vegematic brings back so many memories! My mom had one and that's how I had french fries as a kid. We didn't have the money to go out to a fast food restaurant, so we made our own. That thing lasted for about 30 years before she had to get rid of it.
"the maths and physics says yes!" Me (a physicist) -- No... No no it doesn't. Please don't plug American things into high voltages! Especially things that come without fuses and safety features! It will 100% go on fire.
OMG! My family had a Veg-o-Matic when I was a kid… used it often to make fries. Gosh the memories… it was a wedding gift for my parents and it lasted well over 20 years. Fun times
you guy announced you were upgrading your studio kitchen to a ultimate smart kitchen. Granted this was said in February 2020 pre-COVID has there been any updates to the project?
You have quoted Electric Six. You have confirmed my continued support of this channel. And you had a hotdogger. My week is set. Benuendos on point today!
I’m watching this video at my lunchtime, which in itself. represents a choking hazard. My coworkers looked at me when I shouted “nooooo! Don’t do that!” and winced. Sometimes earphones are too comfortable and one forgets where we are.
I thought the fuse would pop and they'd be kept safe. Shoulda realized there probably wouldn't be a fuse in a product from the 60s! I got scared at how quick it went!
@@Abunai_Gaming Each plug in the UK has its own fuse, so they should be safe on that front ... unless the fuse isn't matched to what amperage the device can survive.
My Mom got a Hotdogger when I was young! It was super fun. I loved the taste. In those days we did no go out to eat hardly ever. No microwaves... so these things were a real marvel!
Having used a hot dog electrocution machine growing up this episode makes me feel really old. EDIT: Want to have a little fun? Put a pickle in it and turn the lights down.
A "sunbeam radiant control toaster" might also be a fun gadget to test in this format. It's kind of an automatic toaster from the 1960's and seems to work better than some of the more modern gadgets.
We had the hot dogger when I was a kid. You have to remember that this was before microwaves where a thing, and the concept of having six hot dogs cooked in a minute was just amazing. With a family of seven, it was something my mom could use to get at least a fast meal on the table for a kid who might have afterschool stuff to do.
I have used modern variants of the "veg-o-matic" (or however they spell it) in restaurants recently. A solid core design just made sturdier with modern materials. A tip for dicing tomatoes. Cut them in half with the flat side down, no spray on you it all shoots downward with the thrust.
Gentlemen, our family bought a veg-o- magic in the mid 1960s. My brother and I were 11 and 12 years old, respectively. It was a kitchen marvel. My brother and I cut everything we possibly could with this wonderful machine. We chopped hot dogs and then fried and ate them. We even pushed oranges through it. It worked a lot better for us. We would bring our friends from school to our house to demonstrate. Our family had it for years. It was indestructible. I have not thought of that in over 50 years. Thanks for the great memories. I have purchased a lot things based on your opinions. For the most part you have chosen well. I have no complaints. Keep'em coming, Jerry
Sorry, Jerry, but veg-o-matic was destructible. Don't try to use it on corn on the cob..causes ALl the blades to go flying. Dad and Mom had made us wear safety goggles.
That transition/edit at the 15:00 mark is so satisfying where Ben passes the plate of onion rings and Mike ends up plopping a ring down on Jamie's hotdog
Having moved to the USA back in the 70's I remember that we had one of these. It was a newer model. It had a curved top and the hot dog holder slid out of one end. You plugged it in and then slid in the hot dog holder and it made contact and started cooking. REMEMBER this was before microwave ovens were affordable and common kitchen appliances. And it was great because we could make an after school snack in a couple of minutes with minimum mess and clean up.
This just proves that older Appliances were meant to last. I use my mom’s Food Processor from the late 70’s, cause they new how to build products that last.
My (youmger) sister got an A in speech class re-doing the vegamatic commercial. Her top blades broke thru the plastic an d flew action the room, just missing the teacher. Discovered it's just one blade, bent and held in place with the plastic frame. It was fun while it lasted!😁
kitchens use similar things to the veg-o-matic all the time, don't know about actual restaurants but in a fast food place I work at we use pretty much the same thing for onions and another one for tomatoes. the tomato one terrifies me though. you basically ram the tomato against a wall of blades and I hate it
As electrician in the US the minute I heard you're going to direct connect that to 240 I got nervous for you the cord isn't rated for that type of current I'm glad nothing bad happened
you mean half the current that it would normally run at? taking the hotdogs resistance as the constant. I know americans make the worst extension cords in the world but I would assume your other appliances are built to a higher standard.
@@jtjames429 exactly so running it here at 240 it has half the current. hence there would be no issue with the cord as it would be well over specced when running at 240v
@@Savagetechie I don't think you're quite understanding that. America runs at 120 they run at 240. It's not that it's running at half its capacity. It's running it twice what it is supposed to be at. That cord should only have 120 that's its max not 240 witch is double.
@@jtjames429 I don't think you understand how cables are specified. They have an insulation value and a cross sectional area. The insulation value dictates the maximum voltage the cable can carry safely, the cross sectional area gives it its current carrying capacity. I doubt very much that the insulation value of the cable will be less than 400 volts especially given that the peak voltage at the top of the sin wave is 170 volts is the US. So while you are doubling the voltage by running the appliance on 240 you are halving the current. The resistive load of the hotdogs remains the same. End result your cable is supplying 50% of the current it was specified for.
Funniest thing ever with that hot dogger. you three just remind me of Clarkson, Hammond and James may, good old banter. I can't seem to stop watching you guys after finding your videos for the first time yesterday.
My grandmother had the vegomatic! She did potatoes and onions with him mostly. Sometimes things like apples for fruit salad... But she used to complain to my dad that veggies and fruits didn’t taste like they used to and I wonder if that has something to do with how well they work in old machinery
I'm embarrassed to admit that we had the hot dog cooker in the 70's. I remember my mother complaining about the fact that it took longer to put the hot dogs on the prongs than it did to throw some hot dogs in a hot pan. I remember lovingly placing the hot dog cooker, back in it's box and taking it to the basement and putting it on the garage sale shelf. Could someone please grab a still of Ben peaking over the counter, looking at the hot dog thing? Thanks in advance.
I work at a thrift store and we have had one of the ice crushers for a while on our shelves, but no one really knew what the thing was. I got to say that is my favorite simply because I know what it is now and it also seems to work really well.
You missed the ball on the rating.
"The table chef, fon-do or fon-dont?"
That would have been a good one!
I can understand why they didn't go with "is it a hot dogger, or will it be left in the car park?"
As a Swiss person, I am deeply offended that Ebbers is ambivalent to table chefs.
Joking aside, we almost exclusively use it to make fondue, so it is really a niche gadget but also essential to every good Swiss household. And I think it’s funny that people from other nations think of fondue and fondue equipment as vintage.
@@marmotarchivist nope. A classical fondue set is not a table chef thingy... But it would function similar. :-)
@@BlackDragonWitheHawk yeah, but the one they showed is basically the bottom half of a fondue set. Does this have another name in English?
"I love my favorite cooking youtube channel"
"Oh yea? what have they made recently?"
"Oh, um..... hot dogs and crushed ice- listen, its a long story"
to be fair hot dogs can be posh and beautiful if you make everything from scratch.
@seiom jvony Flashbacks of that bloody toastie maker.
My favorite cooking comedy channel.
Mike & Jamie saying danger danger should be a GIF. 😂
And a shirt
I'm on it.
High voltage.
To match Mike's "Danger Averted" gif, yeah?
Yeah I want that
Ebbers: "Maths and physics says yes"
Me (electrical engineer): Math and physics says that by doubling the voltage You also double the current, which effectivly quadriples the power / heat. Therefore there were two options: Hot Doggers wireing melts (not this case) or hot dog is done four times faster (15 seconds).
And that seems to have been correct considering thirty was well overcooked! Science!
And me (firefighter) "Maths and physics says yes, I say I'm already en route with a tanker and EMS."
I think also though, even if they had stopped at 15 seconds, it would have had a texture problem. Faster cooking doesnt always yield the same results as cooking normally. General physics around heat transfer in general say that you could heat up anything very quickly by having a very hot object nearby but it probably isnt a smart idea to throw steaks into the sun. Most recipes are designed around the ideal spot where humans have accepted the trade-off between speed and quality
I was terrified for their wiring and the plugs melting.
@@katherinegaymes With normal cooking methods you'd be right as the heat is coming from an external source and is transferred to the food, but in this case the hot dogs themselves are providing the electrical resistance (creating heat) and thus the heat is generated evenly throughout between the metal spikes, therefore 15sec on 240V should be equivalent of 60sec on 120V, but bearing in mind that every extra second on 240V is equivalent to 4 sec on 120V
Ebbers: "Maths and physics says yes"
pause
"Health and Safety risk assessment says, really?"
His facial expression just made it all the funnier!
😂
pretty sure they didn't run that through the health and safety team. This is what happens when the health and safety team takes lunch 😂
Maths and physics definitely don't say yes, by the way. 😂😂😂
You guys need to wear vintage clothes when reviewing vintage gadgets.
Number one rule. 😃
Yes, please!
bring out mike's cardigan collection
I'm here for this
I totally agree.
"I'm Ben Ebbrell, and welcome to Jackass."
**Plugs Hot Dogger into a car battery and runs**
Thing is: a car battery runs at 12V or 24V. So I don‘t think much would happen there compared to the 240V they tried it on…
@@Schnabulation it would in fact cook it, just a bit more slowly. This guy does it with an 18V battery: th-cam.com/video/lStmrK34MF0/w-d-xo.html
This comment made me actually laugh out loud hahahahah 10/10
*plugs straight into national grid*
@@thisnameislongjustlikemysh9584 Hot Dogger on a 10KV line :P
mesmerized and disturbed at how ebbers said "it shot up me arm" 😅
She's a squirter!!!
I like how it's the first time he was so shocked that he stopped being posh
or how excited he said "dogger"
He was so surprised he channeled a Manchester dialect, I heard Karl Pilkington in there 😂
he sounded so sad lol
I've been getting ads for an old school "electricity can kill you" sticker where a humanized bolt of electricity is holding a switchblade and is about to stab a child. It seemed very relevant.
I think I need that sticker
That's how my grandpa died
Oh my haha
@@skthechef8075 so sorry
...what a weird idea for a ad. yes let's have a humanized bolt of lightning appear to be about to stab a child. Instead of them getting shocked
Why is Jamie looking into the camera, smiling and saying "ebay" so funny to me?
Because his delivery is impeccable!
Better each time!
You're not the only one! I couldn't help snortle-ing each time
Same
Callback to Big Night In... That was a great series.
Yes please!
YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Yeah, I loved it!
I miss it
Yes yes yes yes
Fun fact: Westmark still exists and still does produce the ice crusher
Yes but apparently while still sold on Amazon the reviews are bad.
So how much are they going for?
@@TheLoxxxton 15ish pounds, or 19ish euro’s
Not plastic, but die-cast aluminium
If you read through some reviews some people complained about it not being peremantly connected. That's partical consumer error for not reading it's also a scoop. There are so many different ice trays I think "heavy cast" aluminium isn't going to be strong enough. Some kitchen gag should be investments. Depeneds why people need crushed ice, but I would just buy a powerful belnder that can also crush ice. It might be 50-150 USD depending if you get it on sale or not. This thing is like $20 USD. Not worth it even if reviews were good. Or buy a hammer for $5 USD and crush ice in a bag.
@@Sunny-ot1vo I would buy one because I like the design but the review that showed that the food safe coating could not stand up to ice or use turned me off it.
When I was around 6 or 7 (40 years ago) my mom bought one of the ice crushers at a yard sale… we used it for years. Growing up in the country it was always nice just to have crushed ice to eat on a hot summer day when I was little and we had no AC
i want one
Same... except we had to use a bag and a rolling pin/hammer (with a towel under). I still use a rolling pin. hahaha. I need one or a new blender that can crush ice.
@@garethjones6082 still available at ebay germany: www.ebay.de/itm/121093898252?epid=1308027680&hash=item1c31c2400c:g:f90AAOSwHQ9WWx~A
I love this story ^_^
@@Exayevie growing up poor in the country (south eastern Ohio) are some of my favorite memories
The hotdogger works great. In the late 70's I used one in a concession stand. We didn't have large crowds, so you could cook the hotdogs as needed and the rest could stay in the cooler. The switch is the lid, close the lid it on, open the lid it's off.
You can tell me the lid is the on/off switch a thousand times, but I'm still unplugging it before I reach in and grab the conductive objects directly shorting two metal plates.
@@HowManyRobot yeah this LOL it feels like a death machine
@@dfjabYou're not going to die from touching a hotdog under 110V, but it won't be nice either.
Ah yes, I remember in the 1970s when everyone had a fondue set as a centre piece on the dining table. The adults got together for a cheese fondue (once) then us kids got a chocolate fondue with mum and dad (once) then they were never used again.
So true about the last part. We had a chocolate fountain once. Used it once. Wasn't in the 70's tho
We almost Burned or house down with one of these fondeu things 🤐
Every Swiss soldier in the 1960s got one to prepare fondue when "camping". I don't recall if and when they stopped this. In Switzerland fondue without any classifying addition is always molten cheese. I still have several different kinds of these and use it regularly, especially when the weather is uninviting as in a famous Christmas song: "The weather outside is frightful and the fire's so delightful." If you have friends over for fondue, make sure they have a place to pend the night or can walk home. They definitely should *not* drive after fondue.
Btw: I'm not Swiss.
@@derdork3233 '70s*
The underwear joke within the first 30 seconds. This must be a record. 😂
Kinda sad James wasn’t here for the Hot Dogger, I can only imagine what he’d say about it
Kind of hijacking your comment, Im curious how many Americans got the Dogging jokes since I don't think it is part of their slang
@@Piemasterjelly I didn't, explain, please
@@Turkeyfoot1990 Dogging is the act of having sec in a public place
@@Piemasterjelly while being watched if I’m not mistaken, either way I’m sure the commentary would have been hilarious
Where did James go?
The child like glee on ebers face at the end. How many cocktails did y’all let him have?
I'm guessing the obvious glee was because of the dirty double-entendre. If you're not already aware, try googling "UK dogging".
Cheeks were a little flushed. 🤪
@@TheChickensteeth this needs a NSFW warning, for those who may not know 😬
@@shellh929 The phrase "dirty double-entendre" should be warning enough.
I absolutely love how they still talk you through recipes even when they’re ancillary to the main part of the video. No other channel I watch does this and it really makes you feel like they love educating the masses about food
Can we get some commotion in the chat for that double catch by Ebbers! Catching two straws out of the air like that... LEGEND
Ben measuring alcohol in ‘Brazilians’ just made me spit out my drink. #oops
Call back to the underwear joke?
Ebbers should lose his onion cutting badge. Poor form
Lolololol
9:38 I do miss the Big Night In videos. They were simple and fun.
they were some of the best content the channel ever had.
Me too!!
I miss them as well!
"Hot Dogger" definitely has a different connotation in the UK, eh?
NonBrit here, can you explain?
Hehehe I think the boy's dirty brains were thinking the same thing
@@sypialnia_studio dogging in britain is basically having public sex, so a dogger is someone who partakes in dogging. You can see why a "Hot Dogger" Might get a laugh from a few lads
@@kiga3184 oh my goodness
@@kiga3184 thank you 😳
The Hot Dogger - When I was in high school one of the electricity/electronics book had this as a project. Never built it as I thought there were easier ways to cook a hot dog.
We had a Hot Dogger in the '70s. The hotdogs would be overcooked -- split and burned at the ends -- and had a terrible metallic taste. You have activated a perfect sensory memory almost 50 years old!
@mmpj twod ahh that good old toaster fire.
Agreed, they did taste rather bad. No matter how long you cooked them.
Please bring back 'Big Nights In', even just for a one-off special episode, it is the reason I started following you and still one of my favourite series you have ever made.
Imagining James would have gotten the Hot Dogger completely destroyed as fast as he could at least by the time the fire starting potential became obvious. That thing was scary!
There is actually very little chance of fire with this device. Electrocution, yes, but not fire. This device is just a glorified extension cord with one end exposed. Hot dogs don't burn well.
BigClive did a teardown video of the Hot Dogger before on his channel. Its pretty much the equivalent to sticking some coat hanger wire into your outlets and using the hot dogs to connect the two.
On the jobsite we'd use an electric cord and two nails.
"We couldn't find much information about the Hotdogger online"
Big Clive would like to have a word with you.
"We couldn't find that much information about the Hot Dogger online."
It's like you guys haven't even heard of Big Clive.
On the topic of gadgets to test: a "Flotte Lotte" food mill. It might get a permanent place in Ben's kitchen, if he hasn't already got one.
Yeah, I remember seeing a video about the Hot Dogger long ago.
Big Clive made a good video of this device.....and some more electrocuted food.
It's no good with a sausage roll. Love BigClive.
Yeah, didn't he say to not eat the ends because of potential metal contamination...
Am I the only one that had flashbacks to Barry Lewis setting a grilled cheese toaster on fire?
I thought about that too.
Nope!
I truly thought of the same thing!
They made the mistake of just halving the time on doubling the voltage.
Assuming the resistance of the hotdog does not change, doubling the voltage would produce 4 times the heat, so it should have just been a quarter of the time.
The heat wouldn't disperse fast enough. The paths of least resistance through each sausage would likely burn to a crisp before other parts were hot.
Ooh, snap! Schooling us on the science. Brings back memories of Physics in high school. (I got a C in that class... lol)
Words I never thought I would read. "Assuming the resistance of the hotdog does not change" is pretty high on the list.
Brains are wonderful
Ah yes. E= (V^2/R) * t
7:00 Ben suddenly sounded very Northern..."It shot up me arm!" 😂
"I know your problem, you had Safe Search on" 🤣 I'm dying
[in Janice voice]: In today's episode boys will be testing electric chair for sausages.
Ben: what happens if we run this American product at UK electrical ranges?
Me: /flashes back to Barry Lewis with the toaster/ please no Ebbers.
We think Ben turned it off at just the right time - luckily!
"You wouldn't want to keep one at home". As a Swiss person, I'm offended. Everyone has at least one at home and ours usually are made out of cast iron and look way more vintage than this
As a German I was looking for all the offended Swiss people in the comments. 😂
French cheese lover here, and I can easily say that this fondue set is THE gadget I would love to have among all the ones you've reviewed. It looks really nice and it's still there, half a century old.
Veg-O-Matic sounds like something straight out of Wallace & Gromit!
When you plugged the hot dogger into 240V, all of the Barry Lewis subscribers yelled "Nooooo!" at the same time.
Exactly! I was thinking of Barry the entire time.
Yes lol I just saw smoke and toasters.
The grilled cheese toaster, lol
power scales with the square of voltage, meaning it would take a 4th of the time...ish, do watch big clives videon on it, its great, has more smoke and angry pixies jumping out of the machine
They've already seen it ;-) I linked his video after the previous gadget video as an idea for the future.
Lol yeah but cooking time isn't necassarily linear with power. Probably about in the middle, a third, would be safe.
@@lainwired3946 heat loss scales with voltage squared so in theory doubling the potential quarters the time to impart the necessary power but probably doesn't translate to a well cooked item, just like in a microwave, heat has to disperse. Most likely you'd get sausages with very burnt insides and raw outsides. Try e planning that to your dinner guests!!
Ebbers went very northern with “it shot up me arm.”
That Hot Dogger was a horror. The dogs came out tasting like they'd hung off Ben Franklin's kite. If you can imagine what a hot dog which had been struck by lightning may taste like, it's one from that gadget.
That vegematic brings back so many memories! My mom had one and that's how I had french fries as a kid. We didn't have the money to go out to a fast food restaurant, so we made our own. That thing lasted for about 30 years before she had to get rid of it.
Same here. I remember potatoes being the only thing it was any good for.
Versions of it stayed in production right thru the 70s, Johnny Carson used to make jokes about on the Tonight Show.
Ebbers let loose while testing the *hot dogger* ! Did anyone else feel that shift in energy ?
I saw a fire in his eyes..scared me a little
I think the caipirinha hit!
He was also drenched in sweat after the high voltage experiment, he wanted to feel the adrenaline 😂
@@Sizzlik yess !! 🤣🤣
@@missheniki and maybe the onion fumes too 😜🧅
vegomatic never sliced tomatoes ever. It was always only good for potatoes lol.
Glad Baz got to keep his badge from Sunday’s vid…this time! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The hot dogger made me nervous there at the end! 😳
Did they mention it? I figured we would find out in the next badge video
@@JRubin3 Baz said it in an Instagram story
This is something I hate about the badge system. The comments are nothing but whiny
"the maths and physics says yes!"
Me (a physicist) -- No... No no it doesn't. Please don't plug American things into high voltages! Especially things that come without fuses and safety features! It will 100% go on fire.
No worries it is just a six hotdog short circuit :)
Plugging a 110V item into a 220V outlet is a mistake you only make once - the dreaded blue smoke and following panic are like nothing else
OMG! My family had a Veg-o-Matic when I was a kid… used it often to make fries. Gosh the memories… it was a wedding gift for my parents and it lasted well over 20 years. Fun times
you guy announced you were upgrading your studio kitchen to a ultimate smart kitchen. Granted this was said in February 2020 pre-COVID has there been any updates to the project?
We're working on this now, more details will be released soon :)
@@SortedFood good to hear I was looking forward to seeing it
You have quoted Electric Six. You have confirmed my continued support of this channel. And you had a hotdogger. My week is set. Benuendos on point today!
DO YOU WANNA KNOW HOW WE KEEP STARTING FIRES?
@@tgrady2570 It's my desire.
Came here to mention that reference lol
Fire in the disco!
Fire in the taco bell
The hotdogger at higher voltage had me stressed out and I'm all the way in America lol.
I’m watching this video at my lunchtime, which in itself. represents a choking hazard. My coworkers looked at me when I shouted “nooooo! Don’t do that!” and winced. Sometimes earphones are too comfortable and one forgets where we are.
Same
I thought the fuse would pop and they'd be kept safe. Shoulda realized there probably wouldn't be a fuse in a product from the 60s! I got scared at how quick it went!
@@Abunai_Gaming Each plug in the UK has its own fuse, so they should be safe on that front ... unless the fuse isn't matched to what amperage the device can survive.
My Mom got a Hotdogger when I was young! It was super fun. I loved the taste. In those days we did no go out to eat hardly ever. No microwaves... so these things were a real marvel!
Having used a hot dog electrocution machine growing up this episode makes me feel really old.
EDIT: Want to have a little fun? Put a pickle in it and turn the lights down.
Me, with spaghetti arms, very skeptical that that ice crusher is in fact, “easy” 🤣
With the amount of leverage that thing gives you, a small child could probably even do it.
@@m2pt5 Can confirm, we had one when I was little and it was noisy fun. Wonder where it went?
The arms on it were nice and long so you'd have alot of leverage, you'd definitely manage
I could do it when I was little. They're honestly quite well designed.
@@niseplank4527 haha it looked easy in the video! Hahaha just at first glance, I was thinking “uh oh. This could be a struggle” haha
11:23 "Huge big electric jobbies" has my Scottish brain in stitches!
So far this is the most obvious sign that James has left the team.
A "sunbeam radiant control toaster" might also be a fun gadget to test in this format. It's kind of an automatic toaster from the 1960's and seems to work better than some of the more modern gadgets.
1960s. Contrary to mistaken usage, apostrophes aren't used to make plurals. 😛
We had the hot dogger when I was a kid. You have to remember that this was before microwaves where a thing, and the concept of having six hot dogs cooked in a minute was just amazing. With a family of seven, it was something my mom could use to get at least a fast meal on the table for a kid who might have afterschool stuff to do.
I have used modern variants of the "veg-o-matic" (or however they spell it) in restaurants recently. A solid core design just made sturdier with modern materials. A tip for dicing tomatoes. Cut them in half with the flat side down, no spray on you it all shoots downward with the thrust.
15:15 "Ben! Ben, it's not worth it!"
Aww...🥲 the coconut machine of death. Good times.
Things I never knew I wanted to hear was Ben saying “one Brazilian , two Brazilian “
YESSSSS! Can’t wait to dive into this after work!!!! Y’all make my day with every upload!!!
Thanks for watching!
Doubling the voltage actually delivers 4x the power, so 1/4 the cooking time - the more you know.
Gentlemen, our family bought a veg-o- magic in the mid 1960s. My brother and I were 11 and 12 years old, respectively. It was a kitchen marvel. My brother and I cut everything we possibly could with this wonderful machine. We chopped hot dogs and then fried and ate them. We even pushed oranges through it. It worked a lot better for us. We would bring our friends from school to our house to demonstrate. Our family had it for years. It was indestructible. I have not thought of that in over 50 years. Thanks for the great memories. I have purchased a lot things based on your opinions. For the most part you have chosen well. I have no complaints. Keep'em coming, Jerry
Sorry, Jerry, but veg-o-matic was destructible. Don't try to use it on corn on the cob..causes ALl the blades to go flying. Dad and Mom had made us wear safety goggles.
15:49 that bit of ebers poking over the edge 🤣😂
Was not expecting an Electric Six reference when I clicked on this video.
Fire in the disco! Fire in the Taco Bell!
I can't believe more people aren't mentioning that!
*Gadgets from history*
Ebbers : *clanks the metal handles together*
That transition/edit at the 15:00 mark is so satisfying where Ben passes the plate of onion rings and Mike ends up plopping a ring down on Jamie's hotdog
Having moved to the USA back in the 70's I remember that we had one of these. It was a newer model. It had a curved top and the hot dog holder slid out of one end. You plugged it in and then slid in the hot dog holder and it made contact and started cooking. REMEMBER this was before microwave ovens were affordable and common kitchen appliances. And it was great because we could make an after school snack in a couple of minutes with minimum mess and clean up.
The veggie one is basically the vintage version of todays "Nicer Dicer". And Nicer Dicers are really cool :) I love mine!
From a SlapChop to a PunchChop!
One of my highschool science teachers used to cook a hotdog like that with 2 nails as a demonstration
Mike: (tells Ben to make an exotic drink)
Jamie: “Exactly what you want at 9 : 30 on a Tuesday morning.”
This just proves that older Appliances were meant to last. I use my mom’s Food Processor from the late 70’s, cause they new how to build products that last.
15:20
“so we’re now going into high voltage”
“Danger, Danger!”
*PhotonicInduction enters the chat*
The worst part of this is that I can remember most of these when they were new.
:D Me too. (shhhh.... we wouldn't want anyone to know how old I am...)
My (youmger) sister got an A in speech class re-doing the vegamatic commercial. Her top blades broke thru the plastic an d flew action the room, just missing the teacher. Discovered it's just one blade, bent and held in place with the plastic frame. It was fun while it lasted!😁
Worst? I think best! I’m only a zoomer and I’m jealous if that’s what was new.
Jamie you missed your chance to “that’s what she said” when Ben said he couldn’t find the hole plugging the hot dogger with adaptor in.
kitchens use similar things to the veg-o-matic all the time, don't know about actual restaurants but in a fast food place I work at we use pretty much the same thing for onions and another one for tomatoes. the tomato one terrifies me though. you basically ram the tomato against a wall of blades and I hate it
Since I was born in the 40's, that's 1940s, I have owned all of these at one time or another.
Ben called it; he really needs to start bringing a spare chef's jacket or two to these vintage videos.
As electrician in the US the minute I heard you're going to direct connect that to 240 I got nervous for you the cord isn't rated for that type of current I'm glad nothing bad happened
you mean half the current that it would normally run at? taking the hotdogs resistance as the constant. I know americans make the worst extension cords in the world but I would assume your other appliances are built to a higher standard.
@@Savagetechie no our outlets run on 120 at 20amps our stoves, dryers run on 240
@@jtjames429 exactly so running it here at 240 it has half the current. hence there would be no issue with the cord as it would be well over specced when running at 240v
@@Savagetechie I don't think you're quite understanding that. America runs at 120 they run at 240. It's not that it's running at half its capacity. It's running it twice what it is supposed to be at. That cord should only have 120 that's its max not 240 witch is double.
@@jtjames429 I don't think you understand how cables are specified. They have an insulation value and a cross sectional area. The insulation value dictates the maximum voltage the cable can carry safely, the cross sectional area gives it its current carrying capacity. I doubt very much that the insulation value of the cable will be less than 400 volts especially given that the peak voltage at the top of the sin wave is 170 volts is the US.
So while you are doubling the voltage by running the appliance on 240 you are halving the current. The resistive load of the hotdogs remains the same. End result your cable is supplying 50% of the current it was specified for.
“Danger! Danger! High voltage!” is such a reference and I love it.
What is that a reference to?
@@kingofomega7641 Danger! High Voltage by Electric 6
WHEN WE TOUCH WHEN WE KISS
Funniest thing ever with that hot dogger. you three just remind me of Clarkson, Hammond and James may, good old banter. I can't seem to stop watching you guys after finding your videos for the first time yesterday.
Ebber's flushed face peeking over the counter while the Hot Dogger smokes threateningly is an instant classic.
Watching Ben get all giggly when he gets to play with electricity was the happiest iv ever seen him
The hotdogger was highly requested, someone watches big Clive 😆
I can’t believe how close Ebbers put his face to the hot dogger. Yikes!
My mother used the exact same vegimatic for 30 years! I remember using it to dice beets before my mother canned them.
“It smells like burning flesh.”
Why does Mike sound so sure what burning flesh smells like?
I know what it smells like from burning myself on multiple things, like fire, curling iron, grill lid, etc.
@@alisaishere You’ve burnt yourself enough to have smelt your flesh roasting? That’s mental.
Living close to the crematory...
@@Aledharris No, it's metal
All this showed was inflation
Thinking of Big Night In episodes, I genuinely would love the Mystery Night series back when lockdown restrictions ease up
I want to see Ebbers try to cook an entire meal, only by electrocuting things with the torture device.
Oooo, you make me feel so ooooooold! That vegimatic was featured at every annual fair I attended in my youth.
The fondue set is NOT vintage in Switzerland, we still use this kind of alcoohol eater for every cheese fondue.
My grandmother had the vegomatic!
She did potatoes and onions with him mostly. Sometimes things like apples for fruit salad...
But she used to complain to my dad that veggies and fruits didn’t taste like they used to and I wonder if that has something to do with how well they work in old machinery
I'm embarrassed to admit that we had the hot dog cooker in the 70's. I remember my mother complaining about the fact that it took longer to put the hot dogs on the prongs than it did to throw some hot dogs in a hot pan. I remember lovingly placing the hot dog cooker, back in it's box and taking it to the basement and putting it on the garage sale shelf.
Could someone please grab a still of Ben peaking over the counter, looking at the hot dog thing? Thanks in advance.
I work at a thrift store and we have had one of the ice crushers for a while on our shelves, but no one really knew what the thing was. I got to say that is my favorite simply because I know what it is now and it also seems to work really well.
I just picked up an ice crusher for $10US. Love it!
The Olde Sparky™ hot dog executioner!
It's pronounced 'poh-peel'...
When you’re not British but you understand why they were in stitches over Hot Dogger 😂👌🏻