"Dave Smith" > wrote:
> I remember a fancy hot dog cooker that we had in the late 50s or early
> 60s.
> It had a flip up top and a row of pointed metal prongs long each side.
> You
> stuck the wieners into the a set of prongs and plugged it in and it cooked
> the wieners. It worked, but the end product was not great. I always
> thought wieners tasted better either steamed or BBQed.

If you want to get one, they're always available on eBay. It's called the
Presto Hot Dogger. Here's one that is currently at a bid of $0.99:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=290104604610

This one is a later one, probably from the 1970s. The earlier ones looked a
bit different, with a red plastic housing. But they all worked the same way.

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