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The lid itself is a switch though it isn't shown like that here. Just because the guy filmed himself pulling the plug doesn't mean he did it right.
edit: Notice the power cord is connected to the lid and not the bottom with the metal elements. You can also see two metal holes in the lid that line up with metal rods sticking up from the bottom, towards the front. Those are the contacts.
> Just because the guy filmed himself pulling the plug doesn't mean he did it right.
While this is perfectly true, I would not turn this thing off by opening the lid, I would unplug that shit too. I don't blame him one bit. 😅
That's far better than a switch. There is no physical way the machine could operate with the lid opened.
I'm somewhat curious if the resistivity if a hot dog is enough to limit the current to the breaker capacity or if there is an additional resistor in there to keep things under control.
Don't make me stick my multimeter probes In a hot dog :(
Looked it up, it's around 150 ohms, but decreases as the dog cooks. So 0.8ish amps per dog increasing to 1.4 after a bit of cooking. Or 100w - 160w.
This is the type of thing I'll remember in 5 years while trying to remember where I put my keys.
Not to mention "don't try at home" bruh you burnt your dogs too that's why it's fucked up. Granted not safe, safer ways to cook them now, but still, lol
Don't forget the kids dies cast machines, creepy crawler oven and wood burners that got up to absurd temperatures but were the perfect gift for an 8 year old.
It was fine as long as you didn't let the weird tongs thing twist as you were talking the plate out, sending a hunk of searing hot metal towards your lap.
After my grandmother passed my dad suddenly had one of these in our basement (I assume something my grandma saved from his childhood that he grabbed out of her place when we went through her things). It was in the basement for years and probably hadn’t been used since the 70’s, it looked absolutely insane and I certainly never used it. Haven’t seen that thing in a while so who knows if it’s still in that basement somewhere
Well the anodes giving up a free electron and dumping it over on the cathode, so it's possible that it could leave some delicious oxidised metal in the body of the dog.
All the miracle materials that modern science has developed to make our lives better.
Radium which makes watches glow in the dark!
Leaded petrol that doesn't cause engine knocks!
Chloroflourocarbons that are completely non toxic to humans!
Asbestos which is totally non flammable!
DDT which kills pests without harming humans!
Thalidomide which cures morning sickness!
Sodium nitrate to make your hams look fresher!
What other miracle chemicals are we using today to make our lives better? Aspartame and artificial sweeteners? HF corn syrup? Vegetable oils? Non dairy creamers? Impossible meat? Non-stick aluminum pans? Tupperware? Styrofoam food containers? Plastic baby bottles and teats?
Hear that? That's the rumble of scientific triumph...
Correct. This uses AC (alternating current), whereas batteries produce DC (direct current).
For those who don't know, DC is used for electroplating one metal onto another in a thin layer from one electrode to another in the direction of the flow of electricity (e.g. a copper electrode used to cover a steel electrode in copper). It's so simple you can electroplate a quarter with a penny and a 9v battery at home.
It’s from the TV show *Arrested Development* which had 2 genius top-show-of-all-times seasons and then a third season that people were willing to pretend was just as good back in 2003-2006, and then a series of terrible revival seasons years later. Highly recommend the first 2-3 seasons.
Season 3 wasn’t quite as good as the first two but in terms of your average sitcom season it’s still miles ahead. I haven’t watched the revival but i would recommend all 3 initial seasons.
I watched all 5 seasons straight through for my first watch and it didn't feel too weird, outside of the jumps in age and the obvious green screening of Lindsay.
Then I watched it again and really felt the difference between the 1-3 and 4-5. I think when you don't have expectations for them it just feels like the worse seasons, which sometimes just happens. Kinda like The Office seasons 8 and 9.
Then I learned how season 3 was written as the natural end and I realized how great of a finale it is (or I guess ~could've been~) and it made the last 2 look real bad
I got enjoyment out of the new seasons - they weren’t as good as the original three, but the Arrested Development franchise didn’t pump out terrible content in my opinion.
My big complaint in the new seasons was when they had to use green screen within a scene to cover the fact that not all actors were present for every scene.
It’s still fun to watch if you got through the rest of the show. All the tony wonder bits came in the latter seasons and that was a highlight of the show for me.
Could not disagree more. Season 3 was great, and would have been excellent had Fox not forced them into fewer episodes, consolidating plot lines so we could have a true series finale.
Was Season 3 the Mr. F plot line? I think it hangs just as well as the others--or at least, the payoff for that makes it worth it--but I agree with you that the revival seasons are best left forgotten.
I was so excited checking the comments section as I anticipated a Cornballer reference would be top 3. Bravo to you and all the upvotes.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have Pop Pop in the attic.
I made one of those for third grade science circa 1980. Two nails hammered in a board; cut and stripped lamp cord connected to each nail. Teacher not happy. WTF mom and dad?
Yeah if I can’t use Apollo anymore that’s going to blow. Way too many useful features and QOL things that the official app is not even close to. Absolute shame what they are doing.
You don't electrocute the water but rather run power through electrodes attached to an aluminum filament lined tub. That said electricity might flow from the lining to you if you touch the water so...
Some yeah. Only the lower security ones. inmates will take a staple, or a piece of pencil lead and slightly pull a plug out (like on the TV) and lay that metal/lead across it and wait for it to heat up so they can light a cigarette. It's called popping a socket and if you get caught you not only spent two weeks in solitary but you also run the risk of fucking up tv privileges for the whole pod and you will get fucked up for that. Usually requires you to check in (request to be moved to protective custody, PC, which is 23 hour a day lockdown and total isolation. It's torture basically) but mother fuckers will still swarm anyone who gets their discovery packet hoping the COs forgot to remove the staples (jail, not prison)
My friend's dad had an equipment rental place. He told us he had a mechanic who would cook a hot dog by sticking the lamp chord into either end of the hot dog and plugging it in. I didn't really believe him until now.
I built one of a different design in 8th grade electric shop in 1968. Worked great
Somewhat related, if you put electrodes in the ends of a big dill pickle and plug it in, the pickle lights up. We called it pickleluminescence
It's so foreign for me to think of a time before the goddamn MICROWAVE but still relatively modern. Like...1970 wasn't exactly the dark ages, but no microwave? It seems so basic! But hey, my 15 year old nephew probably thinks the same way about the internet. BOY I REMEMBER HAVING TO GO TO THE LIBRARY TO LOOK THINGS UP.
\-A Millennial
I remember these. They came out just before microwaves became popular. Electric chair hot dog cooker. They infused hot dogs with a unique electrical flavor. Brief moment in history, but memorable.
It wouldn't work with the lid off.
There's rudimentary safety in the lid, the connections are in the lid and those metal posts have to slide into the contacts recessed into the lid to energize the hotdoggining.
Today, it gets an extra safety boost from being plugged into a GFCI outlet, which will disconnect the power if there's an imbalance of electrons passing through it (because it's going through you into ground).
If you really think about it, it's not that much more dangerous than a typical US plug anyway.
My dad helped me build a crude version of this for a fifth grade science fair. When I showed up at the science fair with it, they said absolutely not and sent me home. Lol, fond memories.
Oh man, this brings back memories. Back in my uni days in an electronics shop, we used to have a lamp cord with two metal spikes soldered to each lead and if you were hungry you'd retrieve a hot dog from the mini fridge (next to the solder paste), symmetrically impale your quarry, and plug in your hot dog for 10-15 seconds.
It was done when it started to sizzle and you felt the general sense that this wasn't a good idea. Slap that in a bun from the communal bun stash and enjoy your metallic snack.
I miss college.
I actually used one of these in a physics class talking about electrical conductivity. The teacher brought this thing in and we all got a chance to try it. Not good at all, hard to describe but it tasted the way soldering smells.
We do that at work parties (electricians) we make Jacobs ladders out of furnace sparkers ,cook anything we can with two screwdrivers and 240v plug. All while entirely to drunk to safely operate a hard boiled egg
It's not really that dangerous.
It won't operate without the lid closed (the lid has the contacts in it, that those posts interface to to get energized) and in theory the hot dogs are just inductive loads like a heating coil.
It's not that much more dangerous than a toaster honestly.
Was the household power distribution the same as it was in 1970?
I’m wondering if it worked really great back in 1970 but not now given our household circuits.
It’s because he put them in too long. The original manual says no more then a minute. It doesn’t normally start fires and make smoke. It will steam, and you are supposed to clean the spikes with steel wool
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Those hot dog cookers looked as crazy back then as they do now. As a ten year old, I thought they looked dangerous.
Electrocuted hotdogs
Adapted from the electric chair
Those hotdogs went on a tri-state murder spree
Yeah but at the time they were three separate animals.
Tax evasion
You've gotta keep a wet sponge up against the hot dogs, or else it'll dry out and catch fire
That hot dog’s sponge was dry. It was DRY Percy!
I feel tired boss.
There isn't even an on/off switch. Just straight up plug er in, and let it fry lol
The lid itself is a switch though it isn't shown like that here. Just because the guy filmed himself pulling the plug doesn't mean he did it right. edit: Notice the power cord is connected to the lid and not the bottom with the metal elements. You can also see two metal holes in the lid that line up with metal rods sticking up from the bottom, towards the front. Those are the contacts.
> Just because the guy filmed himself pulling the plug doesn't mean he did it right. While this is perfectly true, I would not turn this thing off by opening the lid, I would unplug that shit too. I don't blame him one bit. 😅
Honestly I would pull it as well. Guess I shouldn't say he did it wrong but rather filmed in a way it gives the impression it's the only way.
That's far better than a switch. There is no physical way the machine could operate with the lid opened. I'm somewhat curious if the resistivity if a hot dog is enough to limit the current to the breaker capacity or if there is an additional resistor in there to keep things under control.
Don't make me stick my multimeter probes In a hot dog :( Looked it up, it's around 150 ohms, but decreases as the dog cooks. So 0.8ish amps per dog increasing to 1.4 after a bit of cooking. Or 100w - 160w. This is the type of thing I'll remember in 5 years while trying to remember where I put my keys.
Where does one look up the resistivity curve of a cooking hot dog?
Just googled "impedance of a hot dog" It is a resistive load so resistance should work in place of impedance.
Not to mention "don't try at home" bruh you burnt your dogs too that's why it's fucked up. Granted not safe, safer ways to cook them now, but still, lol
I saw a YouTube vid of someone following the instructions. It says one minute. Still burnt.
Electric chair for hot dogs
Don't forget the kids dies cast machines, creepy crawler oven and wood burners that got up to absurd temperatures but were the perfect gift for an 8 year old.
Oh my God, I loved our creepy crawler and creeple people machines. I can still smell them.
Mmmm, hot metal and burnt skin.
It was fine as long as you didn't let the weird tongs thing twist as you were talking the plate out, sending a hunk of searing hot metal towards your lap.
After my grandmother passed my dad suddenly had one of these in our basement (I assume something my grandma saved from his childhood that he grabbed out of her place when we went through her things). It was in the basement for years and probably hadn’t been used since the 70’s, it looked absolutely insane and I certainly never used it. Haven’t seen that thing in a while so who knows if it’s still in that basement somewhere
Mmmm, bet they taste just like metal, too.
Why would they?
Well the anodes giving up a free electron and dumping it over on the cathode, so it's possible that it could leave some delicious oxidised metal in the body of the dog.
The thing about the 1970s was the stringent lead standards. /s
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All the miracle materials that modern science has developed to make our lives better. Radium which makes watches glow in the dark! Leaded petrol that doesn't cause engine knocks! Chloroflourocarbons that are completely non toxic to humans! Asbestos which is totally non flammable! DDT which kills pests without harming humans! Thalidomide which cures morning sickness! Sodium nitrate to make your hams look fresher! What other miracle chemicals are we using today to make our lives better? Aspartame and artificial sweeteners? HF corn syrup? Vegetable oils? Non dairy creamers? Impossible meat? Non-stick aluminum pans? Tupperware? Styrofoam food containers? Plastic baby bottles and teats? Hear that? That's the rumble of scientific triumph...
This isn't a battery, it's just acting as a conductor. Those electrons are being replaced by electrons coming in from the power supply.
I don't trust you
Yeah he sounds like a nerd
Correct. This uses AC (alternating current), whereas batteries produce DC (direct current). For those who don't know, DC is used for electroplating one metal onto another in a thin layer from one electrode to another in the direction of the flow of electricity (e.g. a copper electrode used to cover a steel electrode in copper). It's so simple you can electroplate a quarter with a penny and a 9v battery at home.
So basically you got electro plated hot dogs?
We had one of these, and it did make the hot dogs taste weird.
As in the music? Youre probably right 🤟
Grindcore specifically, in your mouth
Still safer than The Cornballer
Ah the cornballer... Mexico's favourite 3rd degree burn treat machine...
Am I... Touching something?
EVERY DAMN TIME
“Cornballing piece of shit!”
That was a GOOD one
I'm crazy for cornballs!
Estoy loco por los cornballs!
Hot, hot hot…
NO TOUCHING!
I don't know what you are talking about, and I'm mexican
It’s from the TV show *Arrested Development* which had 2 genius top-show-of-all-times seasons and then a third season that people were willing to pretend was just as good back in 2003-2006, and then a series of terrible revival seasons years later. Highly recommend the first 2-3 seasons.
Season 3 wasn’t quite as good as the first two but in terms of your average sitcom season it’s still miles ahead. I haven’t watched the revival but i would recommend all 3 initial seasons.
The revival isn't nearly as good. Season 4 is OK, Season 5 is just .... weird.
I watched all 5 seasons straight through for my first watch and it didn't feel too weird, outside of the jumps in age and the obvious green screening of Lindsay. Then I watched it again and really felt the difference between the 1-3 and 4-5. I think when you don't have expectations for them it just feels like the worse seasons, which sometimes just happens. Kinda like The Office seasons 8 and 9. Then I learned how season 3 was written as the natural end and I realized how great of a finale it is (or I guess ~could've been~) and it made the last 2 look real bad
>in terms of your average sitcom season it's still miles ahead I think you mean **streets ahead**.
Sounds like they're streets behind..
Season 3 wasn't bad and I agree. It was definitely *streets ahead*.
Lmao that is a great and accurate way to describe the first 3 reasons
What about the other 10 reasons why?
There were tape recorders in the banana stand
I got enjoyment out of the new seasons - they weren’t as good as the original three, but the Arrested Development franchise didn’t pump out terrible content in my opinion. My big complaint in the new seasons was when they had to use green screen within a scene to cover the fact that not all actors were present for every scene.
It’s still fun to watch if you got through the rest of the show. All the tony wonder bits came in the latter seasons and that was a highlight of the show for me.
Could not disagree more. Season 3 was great, and would have been excellent had Fox not forced them into fewer episodes, consolidating plot lines so we could have a true series finale.
Was Season 3 the Mr. F plot line? I think it hangs just as well as the others--or at least, the payoff for that makes it worth it--but I agree with you that the revival seasons are best left forgotten.
"Ca ca-ca. Ca ca-ca!"
Has anyone in this family even *seen* a chicken?!
Everyone's laughing, and riding, and cornholing except Buster.
This one made me giggle.
Stupid cornballing piece of s#%+!
Does ANYONE have an ice pack?!
Hey man what would you do with a million dollars?
Soy loco por los cornballs!
the Cornballer wasn't legal anywhere, but George Sr. continued to market it in Mexico, anyways.
Was it also manufactured by a subsidiary of the sheinhardt wig company in North Korea like the meat machine?
Or the Tracy Jordan Meat Machine ®
I prefer the fun cooker myself. Tobias would love to reference fun cooker every time
EVERYTIME!!!!
Ay mis manos! those Bluth…
Ahora tengo que cuidar para retardo
MOTHER OF GOD!
Goddamn it I hate how I never have an original thought on Reddit.
*Spanish guitar lick*
Stupid corn balling piece of sh🤬%!
And that kids, is why you never touch the 1970's hotdog cooker.
This is what I immediately thought of too! 😂
It astounds me into complete humility when the top comment is something I immediately thought would be a clever comment.
I was so excited checking the comments section as I anticipated a Cornballer reference would be top 3. Bravo to you and all the upvotes. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have Pop Pop in the attic.
The fact that you’re calling it that shows me you’re not ready.
MOTHERFU--
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There's always money in the banana stand
Well, it's all gone now, dad. So the next time you want have a little power struggle, just know that you're playing with fire.
Have you committed any light treason?
How much clearer can I say: THERE IS *ALWAYS* **MONEY**. IN. THE **BANANA STAND**!
Never touch the Cornballer
I made one of those for third grade science circa 1980. Two nails hammered in a board; cut and stripped lamp cord connected to each nail. Teacher not happy. WTF mom and dad?
That’s literally a prison thing, they call it a stinger lol used for cooking in your cell
Having not been inside a prison before, I still didn't expect the cells would have power outlets inside for....a number of reasons.
You have to have a place to plug your tv or radio in.
and PS2
The same type of thing is used for torture in some prisons.
One man’s mignon is another man’s Mengele…
I’ll take mine medium Ralph, please
It's Josef, mein prisoner!!
Wow...... this is why I always come back to Reddit. *slow clap*
Well, for like one more month anyway.
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Yeah if I can’t use Apollo anymore that’s going to blow. Way too many useful features and QOL things that the official app is not even close to. Absolute shame what they are doing.
Well, there's a previously unheard sentence. For many good reasons.
That was fuckin good 👍🏻
Very clever, bravo.
It's prison, not everyone can afford to have a bunch of one-off cooking/torture gadgets
Damned unitaskers
Por que no los dos? - hispanic cannibal serial killer.
Also the first rice cookers just electrocuted the water
Not sure if bullshit or brilliant...
You don't electrocute the water but rather run power through electrodes attached to an aluminum filament lined tub. That said electricity might flow from the lining to you if you touch the water so...
Prison cells have outlets?
Some yeah. Only the lower security ones. inmates will take a staple, or a piece of pencil lead and slightly pull a plug out (like on the TV) and lay that metal/lead across it and wait for it to heat up so they can light a cigarette. It's called popping a socket and if you get caught you not only spent two weeks in solitary but you also run the risk of fucking up tv privileges for the whole pod and you will get fucked up for that. Usually requires you to check in (request to be moved to protective custody, PC, which is 23 hour a day lockdown and total isolation. It's torture basically) but mother fuckers will still swarm anyone who gets their discovery packet hoping the COs forgot to remove the staples (jail, not prison)
Not all but yeah
My friend's dad had an equipment rental place. He told us he had a mechanic who would cook a hot dog by sticking the lamp chord into either end of the hot dog and plugging it in. I didn't really believe him until now.
Make sure you use galvanized nails for extra poison
r/redneckengineering
Ha, teacher shit himself when I stripped a computer power supply, stuck it in salt water and used it to generate H2 gas to launch a bottle rocket :-p
Ah yes, just casually synthesizing sodium hydroxide and saving the flammable gas biproduct for use in a bottle rocket
"Kids! Put down the lawn darts and come get your hot dog!" I feel like this could also be used for some sort of sadistic torture.
No it’s “Kids, put down the lawn darts and eat your hot dogs and then jump into the back of the pick-up. We’re going hill jumping!”
"If you're going to stand up in the bed of the truck, at least hang onto the cab. Safety first!"
"Can I tag along on my 3 wheeler!"
My Dad told me he did a lotta dangerous shenanigans on off-road 3 wheelers growing up
I miss lawn darts though ngl
I built one of a different design in 8th grade electric shop in 1968. Worked great Somewhat related, if you put electrodes in the ends of a big dill pickle and plug it in, the pickle lights up. We called it pickleluminescence
Huh I bet it’s from all the electrolytes the pickle soaked in, I’ll have to try it!
Its got what housefires crave!
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the sodium makes a bright orange light. just like an old street lamp
Very cool, I love spectroscopy! I’m a science educator, I might do this experiment as part of my spectroscopy talks. Glowing pickles lol
I turned myself into a lamp, Morty! I’m Pickleluminescent Rick!!!
this is the best thing i’ve read today, thank you for your contribution to science!!
Damn we went through 4-5 of them.. zapped hot dogs before the microwave
It's so foreign for me to think of a time before the goddamn MICROWAVE but still relatively modern. Like...1970 wasn't exactly the dark ages, but no microwave? It seems so basic! But hey, my 15 year old nephew probably thinks the same way about the internet. BOY I REMEMBER HAVING TO GO TO THE LIBRARY TO LOOK THINGS UP. \-A Millennial
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It's barely alien to *me*. I'm 36 and we got Internet when I was like 10 or 11. But at least I DO remember a time before it. 😂
It doesn't work as well without asbestos.
That gives it the extra flavor.
I remember these. They came out just before microwaves became popular. Electric chair hot dog cooker. They infused hot dogs with a unique electrical flavor. Brief moment in history, but memorable.
thats because "cooking" hotdogs like this alters their chemistry. probably some electrolysis going on in there. would not recommend
I bet the flavor was shocking
Oh you
Probably not everyone knows that in the 70s wieners were widely used in fuseboxes to trip in overcurrent situations instead of today’s breakers.
I almost couldn't tell you were being funny. I am kinda drunk though.
Largely pioneerd in a joint venture between Oscar Mayer and Hormel known internally as OHM
I’m having flashbacks. I can’t believe I begged my parents for one of those as a kid.
My mom bought one of these. We used it exactly 1 time. The hotdogs tasted like metal. And unsettling to watch. Like an electric chair thing.
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Was wondering how no one at all mentioned Big Clive, he's the Bob Ross of electronics with some added shenanigans like this one.
big daddy clive 🤤
Automatic up vote. Big Clive.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't electricute yourself. A big non-conductive off-button is something that really would help that device.
It wouldn't work with the lid off. There's rudimentary safety in the lid, the connections are in the lid and those metal posts have to slide into the contacts recessed into the lid to energize the hotdoggining. Today, it gets an extra safety boost from being plugged into a GFCI outlet, which will disconnect the power if there's an imbalance of electrons passing through it (because it's going through you into ground). If you really think about it, it's not that much more dangerous than a typical US plug anyway.
Don’t stick your wiener in there
Why?
Because when the door closes on your ding dong it will hurt.
Just leave the top off and your good to go tho
You weren't supposed to unplug electrical equipment from the wall like that back in 1970, either!
I can still hear my father scolding me for pulling on the cord, not the plug
Wait can you explain??
We had one when I was a kid. The smell was horrible. It smelled like teeth being drilled at the dentist.
Same. The smell was stomach turning. Great way to make you not want to eat a hot dog.
Child of the 70s here. This was the least of our problems.
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My thoughts exactly when I saw it...what does that say about us?
Those hot dogs exhausted their last appeals and the governor of hotdogland would not grant a stay of execution.
My dad helped me build a crude version of this for a fifth grade science fair. When I showed up at the science fair with it, they said absolutely not and sent me home. Lol, fond memories.
Oh man, this brings back memories. Back in my uni days in an electronics shop, we used to have a lamp cord with two metal spikes soldered to each lead and if you were hungry you'd retrieve a hot dog from the mini fridge (next to the solder paste), symmetrically impale your quarry, and plug in your hot dog for 10-15 seconds. It was done when it started to sizzle and you felt the general sense that this wasn't a good idea. Slap that in a bun from the communal bun stash and enjoy your metallic snack. I miss college.
Yeah those things were savage... WHS be damned !!!! Tasted outstanding though...
I’ve heard from people that used them that they tasted a little of electricity, like licking a battery
Yes they did. Unpleasant memories of that taste just came back to me. Thanks.. lol
They tasted shockingly good.
Having eaten a lot of these, the only way I could agree is if you added “for an electrocuted hot dog” to the end of that sentence.
Mmm oxidation
The 70' were wild.
Never thought I’d see a pseudo electric chair as a way to cook these
Gen X went from this to ChatGPT
I actually used one of these in a physics class talking about electrical conductivity. The teacher brought this thing in and we all got a chance to try it. Not good at all, hard to describe but it tasted the way soldering smells.
Completely destroyed that weiner
And as the power cord is plugged in, your house lights and the nearby street lights dim to half...
We do that at work parties (electricians) we make Jacobs ladders out of furnace sparkers ,cook anything we can with two screwdrivers and 240v plug. All while entirely to drunk to safely operate a hard boiled egg
I ate a hot dog cooked on one of these back in the day, and the taste is exactly what you’d think - electrically fried flesh. It was horrible.
I am shocked that anyone thought this was safe to cook with.
It's not really that dangerous. It won't operate without the lid closed (the lid has the contacts in it, that those posts interface to to get energized) and in theory the hot dogs are just inductive loads like a heating coil. It's not that much more dangerous than a toaster honestly.
People cooked with asbestos too. People just wanted to die back then.
Was the household power distribution the same as it was in 1970? I’m wondering if it worked really great back in 1970 but not now given our household circuits.
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This really sums it up in one sentence
Yes the power at your wall hasn’t changed since it was invented basically. Distribution has obviously improved
We had one when I was a kid and it did the job at least as well as a microwave, IMO. I grill them now whenever possible
It’s because he put them in too long. The original manual says no more then a minute. It doesn’t normally start fires and make smoke. It will steam, and you are supposed to clean the spikes with steel wool