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From: grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Gregory Ebert)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: boiling water with mains current (was Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle)
Message-ID: <805@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 16:53:52 GMT
References: <799@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <804@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <1990Feb22.205630.26536@cs.rochester.edu>
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In article <1990Feb22.205630.26536@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>In
>Australia you can get kettles that boil water with a naked nichrome
>element.
>
>Are there similar appliances in other countries?

   Actually, some hot hot vendors in New York City stick 2 table forks into
   a hot dog, and fire it up w/ 120 VAC. I'm concerned because this might
   put some nasty metal ions into the meat :-( .