You missed the ball on the rating. "The table chef, fon-do or fon-dont?"

"I love my favorite cooking youtube channel" "Oh yea? what have they made recently?" "Oh, um..... hot dogs and crushed ice- listen, its a long story"

Ebbers: "Maths and physics says yes" pause "Health and Safety risk assessment says, really?" His facial expression just made it all the funnier! 😂

Ebbers: "Maths and physics says yes" Me (electrical engineer): Math and physics says that by doubling the voltage You also double the current, which effectivly quadriples the power / heat. Therefore there were two options: Hot Doggers wireing melts (not this case) or hot dog is done four times faster (15 seconds).

Mike & Jamie saying danger danger should be a GIF. 😂

mesmerized and disturbed at how ebbers said "it shot up me arm" 😅

Why is Jamie looking into the camera, smiling and saying "ebay" so funny to me?

I've been getting ads for an old school "electricity can kill you" sticker where a humanized bolt of electricity is holding a switchblade and is about to stab a child. It seemed very relevant.

Callback to Big Night In... That was a great series.

You guys need to wear vintage clothes when reviewing vintage gadgets. Number one rule. 😃

"I know your problem, you had Safe Search on" 🤣 I'm dying

Ah yes, I remember in the 1970s when everyone had a fondue set as a centre piece on the dining table. The adults got together for a cheese fondue (once) then us kids got a chocolate fondue with mum and dad (once) then they were never used again.

"I'm Ben Ebbrell, and welcome to Jackass." **Plugs Hot Dogger into a car battery and runs**

Fun fact: Westmark still exists and still does produce the ice crusher

The hotdogger works great. In the late 70's I used one in a concession stand. We didn't have large crowds, so you could cook the hotdogs as needed and the rest could stay in the cooler. The switch is the lid, close the lid it on, open the lid it's off.

7:00 Ben suddenly sounded very Northern..."It shot up me arm!" 😂

9:38 I do miss the Big Night In videos. They were simple and fun.

The underwear joke within the first 30 seconds. This must be a record. 😂

Can we get some commotion in the chat for that double catch by Ebbers! Catching two straws out of the air like that... LEGEND

I absolutely love how they still talk you through recipes even when they’re ancillary to the main part of the video. No other channel I watch does this and it really makes you feel like they love educating the masses about food

We had a Hot Dogger in the '70s. The hotdogs would be overcooked -- split and burned at the ends -- and had a terrible metallic taste. You have activated a perfect sensory memory almost 50 years old!

Please bring back 'Big Nights In', even just for a one-off special episode, it is the reason I started following you and still one of my favourite series you have ever made.

Watching Ben get all giggly when he gets to play with electricity was the happiest iv ever seen him

We had the hot dogger when I was a kid. You have to remember that this was before microwaves where a thing, and the concept of having six hot dogs cooked in a minute was just amazing. With a family of seven, it was something my mom could use to get at least a fast meal on the table for a kid who might have afterschool stuff to do.

When I was around 6 or 7 (40 years ago) my mom bought one of the ice crushers at a yard sale… we used it for years. Growing up in the country it was always nice just to have crushed ice to eat on a hot summer day when I was little and we had no AC

Kinda sad James wasn’t here for the Hot Dogger, I can only imagine what he’d say about it

That transition/edit at the 15:00 mark is so satisfying where Ben passes the plate of onion rings and Mike ends up plopping a ring down on Jamie's hotdog

That vegematic brings back so many memories! My mom had one and that's how I had french fries as a kid. We didn't have the money to go out to a fast food restaurant, so we made our own. That thing lasted for about 30 years before she had to get rid of it.

Imagining James would have gotten the Hot Dogger completely destroyed as fast as he could at least by the time the fire starting potential became obvious. That thing was scary!

The child like glee on ebers face at the end. How many cocktails did y’all let him have?

OMG! My family had a Veg-o-Matic when I was a kid… used it often to make fries. Gosh the memories… it was a wedding gift for my parents and it lasted well over 20 years. Fun times

"We couldn't find much information about the Hotdogger online" Big Clive would like to have a word with you.

Ben measuring alcohol in ‘Brazilians’ just made me spit out my drink. #oops

Am I the only one that had flashbacks to Barry Lewis setting a grilled cheese toaster on fire?

Having moved to the USA back in the 70's I remember that we had one of these. It was a newer model. It had a curved top and the hot dog holder slid out of one end. You plugged it in and then slid in the hot dog holder and it made contact and started cooking. REMEMBER this was before microwave ovens were affordable and common kitchen appliances. And it was great because we could make an after school snack in a couple of minutes with minimum mess and clean up.

Veg-O-Matic sounds like something straight out of Wallace & Gromit!

15:15 "Ben! Ben, it's not worth it!"

When you plugged the hot dogger into 240V, all of the Barry Lewis subscribers yelled "Nooooo!" at the same time.

A "sunbeam radiant control toaster" might also be a fun gadget to test in this format. It's kind of an automatic toaster from the 1960's and seems to work better than some of the more modern gadgets.

Gentlemen, our family bought a veg-o- magic in the mid 1960s. My brother and I were 11 and 12 years old, respectively. It was a kitchen marvel. My brother and I cut everything we possibly could with this wonderful machine. We chopped hot dogs and then fried and ate them. We even pushed oranges through it. It worked a lot better for us. We would bring our friends from school to our house to demonstrate. Our family had it for years. It was indestructible. I have not thought of that in over 50 years. Thanks for the great memories. I have purchased a lot things based on your opinions. For the most part you have chosen well. I have no complaints. Keep'em coming, Jerry

They made the mistake of just halving the time on doubling the voltage. Assuming the resistance of the hotdog does not change, doubling the voltage would produce 4 times the heat, so it should have just been a quarter of the time.

11:23 "Huge big electric jobbies" has my Scottish brain in stitches!

That Hot Dogger was a horror. The dogs came out tasting like they'd hung off Ben Franklin's kite. If you can imagine what a hot dog which had been struck by lightning may taste like, it's one from that gadget.

The way he caught them 2 straws was like superhuman!

“Danger! Danger! High voltage!” is such a reference and I love it.

Ben: what happens if we run this American product at UK electrical ranges? Me: /flashes back to Barry Lewis with the toaster/ please no Ebbers.

"Hot Dogger" definitely has a different connotation in the UK, eh?

BigClive did a teardown video of the Hot Dogger before on his channel. Its pretty much the equivalent to sticking some coat hanger wire into your outlets and using the hot dogs to connect the two.

Things I never knew I wanted to hear was Ben saying “one Brazilian , two Brazilian “

"We couldn't find that much information about the Hot Dogger online." It's like you guys haven't even heard of Big Clive.

Ebber's flushed face peeking over the counter while the Hot Dogger smokes threateningly is an instant classic.

I have used modern variants of the "veg-o-matic" (or however they spell it) in restaurants recently. A solid core design just made sturdier with modern materials. A tip for dicing tomatoes. Cut them in half with the flat side down, no spray on you it all shoots downward with the thrust.

15:49 that bit of ebers poking over the edge 🤣😂

Glad Baz got to keep his badge from Sunday’s vid…this time! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 The hot dogger made me nervous there at the end! 😳

This just proves that older Appliances were meant to last. I use my mom’s Food Processor from the late 70’s, cause they new how to build products that last.

15:20 “so we’re now going into high voltage” “Danger, Danger!” *PhotonicInduction enters the chat*

Ebbers went very northern with “it shot up me arm.”

The hotdogger at higher voltage had me stressed out and I'm all the way in America lol.

I work at a thrift store and we have had one of the ice crushers for a while on our shelves, but no one really knew what the thing was. I got to say that is my favorite simply because I know what it is now and it also seems to work really well.

The fondue set is NOT vintage in Switzerland, we still use this kind of alcoohol eater for every cheese fondue.

You have quoted Electric Six. You have confirmed my continued support of this channel. And you had a hotdogger. My week is set. Benuendos on point today!

Ebbers should lose his onion cutting badge. Poor form

15:04 That smile is why I'm here. XD

I'm so tickled to see the Veg-O-Matic. We had one when I was little, and I recognized it as soon as I saw the box. The tomato fail didn't surprise me - who knew salsa back then? I'm pretty sure potatoes were all ours got used for.

"You wouldn't want to keep one at home". As a Swiss person, I'm offended. Everyone has at least one at home and ours usually are made out of cast iron and look way more vintage than this

One of my highschool science teachers used to cook a hotdog like that with 2 nails as a demonstration

Ben called it; he really needs to start bringing a spare chef's jacket or two to these vintage videos.

My dad bought a vegematic back in the sixties and it worked on everything like that first onion. Lucky break because we learned our lesson early. By the way there is a heavy duty version for professional kitchens that dates way back in time and works like a charm.

vegomatic never sliced tomatoes ever. It was always only good for potatoes lol.

The veggie one is basically the vintage version of todays "Nicer Dicer". And Nicer Dicers are really cool :) I love mine!

My grandmother had the vegomatic! She did potatoes and onions with him mostly. Sometimes things like apples for fruit salad... But she used to complain to my dad that veggies and fruits didn’t taste like they used to and I wonder if that has something to do with how well they work in old machinery

I love how unnecessarily dramatic Mike can be 😂

Ebbers let loose while testing the *hot dogger* ! Did anyone else feel that shift in energy ?

12:29 That little smirk right there. Cheeky Ebbers

Reading the title of this episode alone, it is clearly everything that I didn't realize was missing from my life and this channel. Love. It!

The 'Table Chef' item is pretty funny. So many Asian cultures have table top hot pot meals in their homes to this day, so common, with origins from centuries ago. Ideally with real charcoal out on a patio (for the smoky flavour) but indoor fuel cartridges also enjoyable. Communal meals are wonderful and so much more enjoyable in my opinion than one dish per person. Of course European fondues and melted chocolate dishes are enjoyable and delicious too, but do seem a little more retro. Vintage origins but very much relevant today. It is like saying that BBQ is antique and quaint. If it is delicious, enjoy! One somewhat retro gadget that I remember is the 80's style hard boiled egg slicer. Oddly satisfying to use. Also the melon baller. : )

Jamie you missed your chance to “that’s what she said” when Ben said he couldn’t find the hole plugging the hot dogger with adaptor in.

[in Janice voice]: In today's episode boys will be testing electric chair for sausages.

The hot dogger is the coolest for me, heating your hot dogs in 60 sec's is great. But a special mention for the ice crusher for being such a super simple device.

3:30 Ben did actually say "..expect it to do-loo" 🤣🤣😭 and ngl i did go on and turned on captions at that point to see if the editor caught that. They respectfully ignored

YESSSSS! Can’t wait to dive into this after work!!!! Y’all make my day with every upload!!!

Oooo, you make me feel so ooooooold! That vegimatic was featured at every annual fair I attended in my youth.

Doubling the voltage actually delivers 4x the power, so 1/4 the cooking time - the more you know.

Really loving seeing more recipes mixed in with the gadget reviews and whatnot lately! This is a strategic brand pivot I am 100% behind 🤣

Thinking of Big Night In episodes, I genuinely would love the Mystery Night series back when lockdown restrictions ease up

Was not expecting an Electric Six reference when I clicked on this video.

My grandmother still has a Veg-o-matic in her kitchen today. We picked it up at a Goodwill a couple years back.

I love that the hot dogger is literally the same as cutting an extension cord and sticking one lead into each side of the hot dog, it's so sketchy but the cheap plastics gives some level of false security.

My mother used the exact same vegimatic for 30 years! I remember using it to dice beets before my mother canned them.

Me, with spaghetti arms, very skeptical that that ice crusher is in fact, “easy” 🤣

You guys are missing the common infomercial line, "It's THAT easy!"

I think fondue needs to come back. Dipping things in a cheese sauce? Yes please!

power scales with the square of voltage, meaning it would take a 4th of the time...ish, do watch big clives videon on it, its great, has more smoke and angry pixies jumping out of the machine

I grew up with a Presto Hotdogger. I still have one and love the nostalgia.

Likely, the reason that it doesn't have a separate on/off switch is that in those days, people were _much_ more used to simply unplugging their appliances when they weren't in use. Therefore, the idea of plugging something in to turn it on and unplugging it to turn it off would have been perfectly reasonable, in the time period.

I love that how perfectly Mike and Jamie are in sync every time they do something amazing like singing or warning for the danger. They are so well perfectly in sync that they should do a lot together in sync like singing full songs and warn about danger and a lot more what the could :) Perrfecto

Mike: (tells Ben to make an exotic drink) Jamie: “Exactly what you want at 9 : 30 on a Tuesday morning.”

*Gadgets from history* Ebbers : *clanks the metal handles together*

I love the fact that Ebbers references that the Hot Dogger experiment wasn’t safe and yet went through with it anyway 😂😂

My mum who is 60, still has and uses her veg-o-matic all the time she got it from her mum. It’s even still kept in that same box! We used it all the time growing up making potatobake. It’s the best thing ever!