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What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower

few months ago, our AM radio hot dog experiment went mildly viral. That was a result of me asking my Dad 'what would happen if you ground a hot dog to one of your AM radio towers?' He didn't know, so one night on the way to my son's volleyball practice, we tested it.

It did an excellent job demodulating the AM signal into audible sound, and the entire hot dog was heated to around 80°C—which is luckily a safe internal temperature for eating. Hypothesis: Some commenters believed the salt content of a fresh gherkin would cause the arc to change from orange-ish (hot dog) to green-ish (pickle). Jay taste-tested the cooked vegan hot dog (this time biting off a section from the middle, not a part that came in contact with the copper) and described the taste as 'pretty good'.

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