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Best way to cook a hotdog indoors barring cooking it on a fork over the open flame of a gas stove!
By Jack on Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025
As a hotdog lover from way back, my preferred way of cooking one is on a straightened metal coat hanger over a firepit full of wood. But unless I am at the beach or at someone else's place that has a fire pit in their backyard, I have to choose between the microwave, steaming, boiling, or frying. Well not anymore! I found this hot dog toaster by chance online and it was the best buy I have made in a long time. You can actually cook the dogs until they blacken and the oil bursts through the skins, at least that is how I like them anyway. They seem to have much more flavor. Anyway, I have to put them through the toaster three times, each time flipping them top to bottom, to get them to that stage where they are bursting with flavor and somewhat crispy. The buns I do not put in until the third cycle. I was never a fan of toasted buns before, but this toaster seems to make them just right and I do not see how I ever ate a hot dog without the bun toasted in the past........DELICIOUS! One warning though, if you cook the dogs for more than one cycle, do it under the hood on the stove so you don't set off any smoke alarms in the house. Not that this toaster gives off a lot of smoke, but three cycles take about 10 minutes to cook (3.5 minutes on the #5 setting) and so even a little smoke over 10 minutes will set off a smoke alarm since they are pretty sensitive. The drain pan in the bottom of the toaster will fill up with the oil that drains from the dogs especially if you cook them for 10 minutes like I do, but the pan has never overflowed and by the time I finish my dogs and go to clean the toaster, the oil has solidified so not a big mess to clean up. Just take out the pan and wash it with dishwashing liquid and take out the metal basket that holds the dogs while they are cooking and do the same. Wipe down the top of the toaster and clean as a whistle. Toasting the dogs in this toaster really brings out the flavor of the dogs where the microwave, steaming, boiling, etc. does not. If you are a hot dog lover, buy this toaster and you will not be disappointed.
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A True White Elephant Gift
By K+S in STL on Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2025
Not sure why my husband bought this. Would be great as a white elephant gift. It’s very attractive - just as pictured. But it’s not a hotdog cooker. Rather, it’s a toaster which identifies as a hotdog cooker… hence the reason it would make a great (albeit pricy) gag gift. The top has been modified with circles and half circles. The circles fit a standard hotdog (not the plumping ones). The half circles were too small to hold the regular (relatively small) buns. We had to jam the buns in (partially open). Besides the facelift on the top and the modified toasting slots, the rest is just a standard toaster: heating elements dividing the inside (buns are toasted on one side and hotdogs on two sides), with two drip trays (not just toast crumbs - the juices from the hotdogs end up on the heating elements and in the drip trays). Not practical for cleaning, and then the heating elements stink on further use. The buns were smashed, toasted and VERY dry. Nothing like a nicely steamed bun. The hotdogs were burnt on the two sides facing the heating elements, but still cold inside. Not very appetizing (yuck!). Again… this is great for a White Elephant gift exchange… or if you have to buy a gift for someone you don’t like and need it to look like a nice gift at first. ;-P
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