"Dave Smith" > wrote:
> They still make them?
> I had forgotten that they cooked the wieners so quickly. We used a few
> times more or less to enjoy the novelty of it, but they were not very
> good.

No, they haven't made them in about 30 years. Those on eBay are all
"vintage" ones. I believe they stopped making them because they were a fire
hazard. In the 1970s they really started paying attention to product safety.
I'm not sure, but I imagine if you put the hot dogs in and then get
distracted and forget, they'd probably catch on fire.

My parents had one (after I moved out) and used it more as a novelty thing
too. I'm not sure what they eventually did with it. It's not like there's
much on it to break, that's for sure. The heating element is the hot dog
itself! ;-)

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