Re: [TCML] Prepare a Hot Dog

[Jerry Chamkis <jchamkis@xxxxxxx>]

The reason sausages can't be effectively cooked by high-voltage low-current sources is a simple matter of impedance mismatch. The sausage is water-based and presumably has an impedance of some tens or hundreds of ohms- horrendously mis-matched to a Tesla coil so there is no effective transfer of power to produce heating.

When I was a kid in the '50s it was a popular geek project to cook hot dogs with a (ordinary steel!) nail in each end connected to the A.C. line voltage. It is well known that there is a large production of toxic chemicals from the electrolytic action of the electrodes- even with good grade stainless steel electrodes- so sausages cooked in this manner absolutely should NOT be consumed.
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