@gsuberland i saw a video a few minutes ago of a 70s product from the USA. It was a hot dog cooker, you stick the sausages between two metal spikes, then close the flimsy plastic lid to activate the machine and make a direct electrical connection between the wall socket and the hot dogs. Anyways,
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@halcy @gsuberland I remember reading an electronics "boys' book" from the 1950s or 1960s that had instructions on how to build one of those. (I read this in the public library in the 1980s!) The same book had plans for building tube radios, PA amplifiers, and similar kit that could easily kill an insufficiently cautious 15yo.
@halcy oh yeah I've seen those things. I guess at least in the USA you're doing it with half the voltage.
@halcy @gsuberland We had two naked probes on the end of a socket cord for that in my dorm kitchen.
Mostly engineering majors; we forbade the law and theology students to use it.
Oddly, no fires were started, and noone got electrocuted.