who invented the hot dog toaster
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It Pains Me to Report This Hot Dog Toaster Is a Piece of Shit
God, I love hot dogs.
My parents used to reward me with the cheap and oh-so-delicious hot dogs from Costco for making it through a Sunday afternoon shopping session, so that’s probably why I love them so much.
The reward center of my brain lights up every time I see or smell them.
So when I came across a hot dog toaster that toasts both hot dogs and hot dog buns at the same time.
I had to have it. Call it a completely irrational quarantine splurge, but I convinced myself I would love this toaster.
which I found on sale for the low, low cost of $17. If you could put a price tag on happiness, $17 is well worth it.
Unfortunately, I got what I paid for. I can’t even return the thing, because I’d have to clean the burnt remnants of dog and bun out, and frankly, that’s an impossible task.
This hot dog toaster is part of the Nostalgia line of 1950s-inspired kitchen appliances, which covers everything from snow cone machines to 3-in-1 breakfast makers. It’s stuff that looks like it could have been around in the mid-20th century, but according to my mom, wasn’t.
Did anything like this hot dog toaster exist in the ‘50s or ‘60s?
No, I don’t think so. Grandma usually boiled hot dogs for us or my father grilled them on the BBQ.
I guess it’s impossible to feel nostalgic for a product that never existed, but toasting hot dogs sounds so much more fun than boiling them.
And even my mom thought the concept is neat, if historically inaccurate. The candy red coating helps sell the shiny, happy dystopia of post-WWII American consumerism.
Unfortunately, the novelty of this toaster wears off immediately after using it.
Let me start with this toaster’s design
The cord is too thick to wrap neatly under the toaster—and that’s one of its highlighted features. The cord attaches to the front of the toaster on the underside.
too, so unless you want to wrap the already short cord around one side to reach a kitchen outlet.
the heat dial and rest of the toaster controls will face away from you toward the wall.
The heat dial, stop button, and lever all work as expected, but not every brand of bun will fit into the bun-toaster.
Ballpark buns, for example, are too fluffy and sticky to fit inside the toaster when you press the lever. I had to push them in with my fingers.
When it was time for the buns to pop out of the toaster, they got stuck again, sometimes not even popping out at all, so I had to use the provided tongs to pull them out.
You can put any dog made of any kind of meat (even tofu dogs) into the toaster, which is a bonus But the heat dial applies the same amount of heat to both the hot dogs and buns.
If you want slightly toasted buns, the hotdogs will come out cold. If you want hotdogs with crisp skin, the buns will burn.
I ended up setting the heat dial to 2 (out of 5), cooking the hot dogs first
and then putting the buns in, so the buns got one round at the second heat setting and the dogs got two rounds.
It was the only way I could get both to my preferred level of doneness, and keep both the dogs and bun nice and warm.
That’s not so convenient for a machine that is supposed to cook both at the same time.
But no matter the heat setting, the dogs and buns will burn.
If your wieners aren’t jumbo-sized, they will tilt over in the hotdog basket, press against the hot metal, and burn quickly—but just the tips.
(I honestly can’t believe I just wrote that sentence.) The buns burn along the edges, and the only way to prevent that is to leave the charred remains of sacrificed buns stuck to the inside of the toaster.
It makes a protective barrier, and is as disgusting as it sounds.
Even if I didn’t want to return this toaster, I have to leave burnt bun on the inside to protect the buns I toast.
Hot dogs don’t leave the same kind of ‘protective’ layer, so it’s burnt wieners, every goddamn time.
After all that unnecessary struggle
the hot dogs tasted…fine. The specially designed hot dog toaster accomplished nothing a normal toaster oven wouldn’t, except for burning hot dog tips.
Will I ever use the Nostalgia hot dog toaster again? Probably not. It’ll sit in the back of my kitchen cupboard, where all bad appliances go to die.
The saddest part about all this is I wasn’t even drinking when I ordered it. I just really, really wanted a hot dog toaster.
where the hot dog was invented
The Extra-Long History of the Hot Dog
The hot dog, a quintessential American summer grill food, has origins that may go back millennia.
Historians believe its beginnings can be traced to era of the notorious Roman emperor Nero, whose cook, Gaius, may have linked the first sausages.
In ancient Rome, it was customary to starve pigs for one week before the slaughter.
As the legend goes, Gaius was watching over his kitchen when he realized that one pig had been brought out fully roasted, but somehow not cleaned.
He stuck a knife into the belly to see if the roast was edible, and out popped the intestines: empty because of the starvation diet, and puffed from the heat.
According to legend, Gaius exclaimed, “I have discovered something of great importance!”
He stuffed the intestines with ground game meats mixed with spices and wheat—and the sausage was created.
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After that, the sausage traveled across Europe, making its way eventually to present-day Germany. The Germans adopted the sausage as their own, creating scores of different versions to be enjoyed with beer and kraut.
In fact, two German towns vie to be the original birthplace of the modern hot dog. Frankfurt claims the frankfurter was invented there over 500 years ago, in 1484.
eight years before Columbus set sail for America. But the people of Vienna (Wien, in German) say they are the true originators of the “wienerwurst.”
No matter which town might have originated this particular sausage.
it’s generally agreed that German immigrants to New York were the first to sell wieners, from a pushcart, in the 1860s.
Hot dog
A hot dog[1][2] (less commonly spelled hotdog[3]) is a dish consisting of a grilled or steamed sausage served in the slit of a partially sliced bun.[4] The term hot dog can also refer to the sausage itself. The sausage used is a wiener (Vienna sausage) or a frankfurter (Frankfurter Würstchen, also just called frank).
- RESOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
