Hot Dog Toaster

[daveamkrayoguy]

Useless "Single Use" Kitchen Gadgets!

That to me, would be a "mostly unused [read: useless] appliance"...

Along w/ my food processor & juicer (which I don't use as often as I did when I first bought 'em, though I never used my slow cooker until a few years ago when I just moved from my apartment to my house) this is an appliance that this would sit with, collecting dust...

Maybe w/ my OrGreenic frying pan, which works well cooking vegitables (though you MUST add WATER!) but does lousy cooking eggs!

And my watermelon slicer (which is really an over-sized APPLE SLICER!) and my avocado pitter...!

-- Dave

 

[franksdad]

And my watermelon slicer (which is really an over-sized APPL

My wife and I couldn't wait to get our Khun-Rikon watermellon slicer at Bed Bath and Beyond.  We were sooooooooo excited.  We were not impressed.  Apparently others were not impressed.  A local grocery chain, Bi-Lo, had the Kitchen-Aid brand watermellon knives on clearence for $1.99 a couple of weeks ago.  

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The Handy Dandy Watermelon Knife (Made in China!)

I actually bought the (really, 'a') Watermelon knife which works safely w/ ANY kind of melon! Now for a couple of dollars that works good!

No disappointments there...

-- Dave

 

[revvinkevin]

Hot Dog "toaster" is a uni-tasker

 

 

Hot Dog "toaster" is a uni-tasker, as Alton Brown would say.  

 

While it is a nifty little device, I like prefer my kitchen gadgets have the ability to do more than just one thing.   So thanks, but I'll pass.

 

Kevin

 

[nurdlinger]

NEW ENGLAND STYLE HOT DOG ROLLS

Wow this triggered some old memories. Back in the early 50s, before the expressway, our family would periodically caravan down from Detroit to Toledo to visit relatives. This trip was made on US-24, a conventional highway. About halfway there, we would always stop for lunch at a roadside Howard Johnson restaurant. This place had two things we kids never saw before, hot-air hand dryers in the rest rooms and these kind of hot dog rolls. Hot air dryers are commonplace these days, the hot dog rolls not so much.

 

[spookiness]

Hotdogs in Denmark

I prefer my buns toasted as well. Stands up to toppings better.

If you ever visit Copenhagen (I assume other places in Denmark have these) try a "Fransk Hot Dog" from a cart. That means French hot dog, why, I have no idea. The bun is not split. They jab the bun on a hot metal spike, that toasts it a little on the inside. Then "Fransk Hot Dog Dressing" (mostly mayo I think) is squirted in the hole, then the hot dog goes in. It's rather convenient because you can eat it easily with one hand. I haven't been there for a visit, but I am due. After landing, I'll take the train to Hovedbangorn (station) then walk to Radjuspladsen (town hall square) and find a hot dog cart! The bacon wrapped ones are tasty too.

 

[joe_in_philly]

The whole wheat hot dog buns sold at Trader Joe's are like the New England buns. They are pretty good.