If there is one complaint I have about every boomerang competition I go to, it’s that there simply aren’t enough hot dogs. Apparently boomerang enthusiast Paul Sprague and I don’t frequent the same contests, because when he goes boomeranging (yep, that’s a word), he brings along his self-designed BoomChef solar-powered grill, built intentionally for grilling up hot dogs at boomerang competitions. When he says solar powered, he means it–the thing is literally a glass box that catches sunlight bounced off a reflective Mylar panel.
Add this to our collection of crazy barbecue grills, this one looking exactly like a V-8 engine. That’s because it’s made of a Chevy V-8 engine block, retrofitted with a grill and propane burners that can crank out 60,000 BTU. galleryPost('v8grill', 4, 'V8 Grill');
For 10x the price of a George Foreman grill, this $200 grill/hot plate set better cook 10x the amount of stuff. It does. From the horrible Japanese translation, this Zojirushi grill looks like it can roast meat, grill vegetables, make fried rice, smoke meat, cook vegetables, make chow mein and a bunch of other things. And of course you can pack it up into a really, really hot briefcase afterwards. Only in Japan (so far).
Impress [via Tokyo Mango]
Evil Mad Scientist’s disclaimer that this little project “just isn’t safe” kind of lowballs the danger level involved, since you’re basically plugging your hot dog directly into a power outlet.
To be more precise, you alligator clip two forks, which you shove into the hot dog, into a wall socket (or power strip, which would be moderately safer). Wait about two minutes for a snap, crackle and pop—you have yourself a cooked dog, which you can eat or shove LEDs into (pictured).
Definitely recommended if your barbecue gets rained out and you can’t shoot any fireworks to spark that annual family trip the emergency room.
Cooking hot dogs via electrocution [Evil Mad Scientist via Neatorama]
Alpina and Smartech Italia SpA are behind the Onfalos, a teppan-style grill for your garden. Made of stainless steel, the Onfalos grill is so hardcore you can even grill in a blizzard – if you want to, that is – and all you need is a 5kg gas cylinder.
The combustion chamber and chimney are hidden beneath the circular plate (apparently it’s easy to clean if you’re a slob like me) inside a cone-shaped structure, and there is a drain tray to collect the cooking liquids. The petals come in six colors – lilac, hot, white, mandarin, pearl gray and sun – which I guess are for resting the plates on when you’re serving up. Oh, and did you know that Ónfalos means “belly button” in Greek? No, me neither.
Just what I need to piss off my dog even more, a barking puppy shaped hot dog steamer. She already gets mad when I’m making hot dogs since they smell so good to her puppy nose. But now, when they are done steaming, it will bark loud taunting woofs at her.
They’re going for $35.00, and I apologize to your dog in advance. – Ben Longo
Dog Hotdog Cooker [Uneasy Silence]
Next time you’re renovating the kitchen, why not go for a designer stovetop? These Britannia range cookers form their ‘couture’ range, inspired by the designs of Avsh Alom Gur.
If these are a little too bling for your home, you can order a Britannia stove matched to the colour of your choice.
At a cool £4,800, you can afford to swap these in and out with the changing of the seasons. Sorry? You aren’t living off the interest of a major inheritance? You poor, poor soul… -Seamus Byrne
With this $15 set of 4 steak thermometers, you’ll no longer have to yell at your kids whenever he or she cooks your steak the wrong way. Just plop the reusable thermometer inside your steak and watch as the gauge goes from Rare to Medium to Well.
We’ve been cooking steak for a while and still don’t know what the “optimal” temperature for it is, so an easy-to-read thermometer like this is perfect for idiots like us. And your kids. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Surlatable via Uncrate]
We’ve never made homemade bread ourselves, but if we had these Japanese National automatic home bakery systems we just might. It looks just like a rice cooker, and allows you to pour in all the ingredients at once, press a button, and JIGGITY JAM, you’ve got bread.
If you don’t like bread, it also makes pasta, cake, mochi, and raisin bread. Though raisin bread is still bread. But much, much more delicious. You know what else is delicious? Raisin bread. Oh wait, I just said that. – Jason Chen
Product Page [National via Tokyo Mango]
Pork is essentially synonymous with barbecue in my area of the South, so the Lil’ Pig barbecue from Traeger makes sense in a creepy meta-way if you can get past the doe-eyed cuteness. The grill boasts 418 sq. inches of cooking surface, an internal hopper, a stainless steel door handle and a multi-position digital thermostat control.
So while it’s “some pig,” (Giz reads!) the $1599 price tag might swing you toward some grilling gear a little less porky pricewise. There’s also a Longhorn grill for you Texans. – Matt Buchanan
Product Page [Traeger via shiny shiny]
