On Sep 6, 3:48*pm, Richard Clark wrote:

In the 1960s, a product for cooking hotdogs (10cm) was sold. *It
consisted of exposed metal prongs that penetrated to each end of the
hot dog, and were, in turn, plugged into the wall. *Net result: in 3
minutes you had a broiled hot dog from 12V/cm.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

I remember that: It was called the "Hot Dogger". It worked quite well.
Oscar Mayer hot dogs and the like are assisted in the hot dog zap-
cooking process by the large amount of electrolyes (salt content) used
in processing the "meat". It was a resistive heat cooking process of
course, nothing exotic, but 12V/cm it was.