Hot Dog Express Rotary Grill

by As Seen On TV

Product Features

• Cooks up to 8 hot dogs at the same time
• 30-min. adjustable timer
• Also prepares all types of sausages, kielbasa, hamburgers and more!
• Dishwasher safe parts
• Bun warming lid

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 10.2 x 5 inches ; 6.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00413E6Y8
• Item model number: 7704CMO
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,153 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Now you can enjoy the great taste of stadium-style hot dogs at home with the Hot Dog Express. The Hot Dog Express roller design allows you to cook hot dogs, polish, or any other type of sausage slowly and tenderly without burning. After your first bite, you will not want to cook any other way. Family not quite ready to eat when dogs are done? No problem with the Hot Dog Express! It keeps your dogs and buns warm and toasty until you are ready to eat. Not only does Hot Dog Express create great tasting meals, the removable tray drains away fat, and the special lid warms buns.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It grills a mean dog!, March 4, 2005

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Burly Nerd "burlynerd" (Waynesboro, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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Deion Sanders' Hot Dog Express is an obvious attempt to exploit the wild success of George Foreman's grills, however Deion was not savvy enough to work with a high-quality manufacturer like Salton to manufacture his product. The Hot Dog Express is an OK quality product, but handling it gives hints that it will not last as long as a George Foreman grill does.

That being said, it did cook some very tasty hot dogs. It has the rollers like a professional hot dog stand, and takes about 14 minutes to cook eight hot dogs. I used Oscar Meyer beef dogs and they tasted better than any boiled hot dog ever could. The buns warmed on the cover as the dogs cooked.

The only obvious quality problem was the timer dial. It is marked for the length of time you want the cooker to run. I set mine for 14 min, but found that it stopped at the three minute mark and had no alarm bell to indicate the completion of cooking. To compensate, I have to set mine to 17 min, and keep my eye on the clock. This may be a manufacturing problem only with my unit, but is only mildly irritating. I tend to keep an eye on cookers when they are running anyway, for safety reasons.

The unit cleans up easily, as they state. The rollers and the "oil collection tray" both come out of the cooker for easy cleaning in the sink.

Overall, I do recommend this product because it cooks a very good hot dog. It will serve some heavy duty time on my patio this summer.

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No, no, no., November 21, 2005

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Chad E. Nagy (South Bend, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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It can't hold 8 Nathan's so don't waste your money. The "bun warmer" lid is a joke leaving the buns hard on the bottom and cold on top. The worst part is the strange - but plentiful - smell that it gives off. It's like overheated electronics.

This looks like a simple and inexpensive way to have a commercial-grade hot dog roller but you'll be left impressing no one and feeling ripped-off.

Just my opinion [own it, used it three times, feel like a fool].

-- cn

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some "concerns" - Cooks okay, November 30, 2005

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KW (Washington United States) - See all my reviews

I received the product and am satisfied with the way it cooks. Just two things concerned me and I am still waiting for the "As-seen-on-TV" group to resolve/quell my concerns:

(1) The drip tray at the back of the unit - where the condensation is supposed too drip to when/while cooking and after you open the lid - was broken. I emailed "As-seen-on-TV" and they responded by saying they had contacted the manufacturer and were going to wait to see what they (i.e., the manufacturer) can do/will advise. Why they cannot just send me a new/replacement drip tray is beyond me;

(2) The square turning stem that comes off the roller wheels and joins into the unit - as the cooking time goes on, it seems this stem "unscrews" itself from the units motor turning assembly resulting in the roller wheel assembly no longer "turning" the dogs. Synopsis: I found that I had to occasionally "push the roller assembly back into the units motor stem connector with the plastic tongs. And by the by, the plastic tongs melted somewhat where I used them to push the roller assembly into the connector; couldn't use a metal utensil as the instructions say not to use metal to touch the rollers as may give off an electric shock.