Kitchen Art 18550 Ham Dogger, Plastic

Works great but it's messy and hard to use. It's a good gag gift or if you have time to kill.

I bought 3 of them, one for myself and 2 for for my sons. We all have tried them and the design doesn't work. The meat in hot dog shape will not stay together when cooking. Used several types of hamburger with different fat ratings and they all fell apart while cooking. When trying to put cheese or any other type filler in the hot dog they are to small and don't hold enough meat to have room for even finely shredded cheese to let the meat cover the cheese. Therefore it makes the ground meat fall apart before putting them on to cook. The meat sticks to the plastic unless the Ham Dogger is coated with cooking oil, makes a real mess. The clean up of the Ham Dogger is very hard by hand, dish washer is the only option. I have the ham burger press made by Kitchen Art and is a very good design and works well.

I took ground turkey and mixed it with taco seasoning, let it sit in the fridge for a bit.Then I rolled up 4 dogs topped with sliced green olives and rolled them all into pieces of foil. Cooked in the BBQ in the foil for a few minutes removed the foil and BBQ'd the until done. Topped with all the regular taco stuff what fun. I have also tried ground lamb with Greek seasoning and ground pork with maple bacon seasoning. I now have several rolled up in foil in the freezer ready for our next BBQ!. Can't wait.

What a great little contraption. It is the mixture of two cornerstone American means - the hotdog and hamburger. My favorite part about this is how diverse you can make the "ham dog." You can go from beef to turkey to sausage and it will all work great. On top of that you can mix in cheeses, onions, peppers, mushrooms, just about anything! I have made some really creative meals with this ham dogger.As far as use, it is very simple. I was able to pick it up and use it without any need for instructions. In goes the meat and out pops a perfect "ham dog." I have only had issues with the "ham dog" breaking once and that was due to me overloading it with veggies.I will be buying this as gifts for others. I would recommend it in a heart beat. Buy this product, you won't regret it. 5/5

After receiving the item it became immediately apparent it was not worth the price! The company agreed to accept a return, but at my cost - my cost being about 70% of the purchase price! Appears as though it could be considered a bit of a scam??!!