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Parabolic Hot Dog Cooker

Added: Jun 5th, 2008
Parabolic Hot Dog Cooker Please note, I have not posted the pictures yet. Check back, and they'll be up as soon as possible.

This is a cardboard hot dog cooker. Truthfully, I haven’t tried it yet. The foiled collector dimensions are 12 by 20 inches, which works out to about 240 square inches which is somewhat shy of 2 square feet. I’m guessing it will only collect about 100 watts of heat however, and don’t know if that is enough to cook hot dogs. However, if this simple parabolic were expanded, then it might work well. If each parabolic side were expanded by 6 inches, then the collector area would be 480 square inches, and will gather 120 watts onto a very small focused spot. Perhaps this was foolish use of my time, but I will try cooking with it this summer, and will of course not leave the hot dogs in it longer than about 45 minutes or an hour to make sure the hot dogs do not spoil. Oh well, possibly an impractical project, but it did get me away from the TV for awhile, and was semi-creative. Perhaps someone can expand and improve this project.