Technical What is it?

found this on another HR site and I'm stumped as to what it is.....any ideas?

 

A gas gauge.

 

Bon appetit........
A set of seven aluminum potato baking spikes... Hot Rod Pat. Pend.... 4.5".

 

man....I knew someone here would know....thx

 

For a drill press to change a Morris chuck

 

Correct, We call 'em drift pins here.

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I have never heard them called that.

Every shop that I have worked in calls them Morse taper shank wedges, or shank removal tools.

Where I come from, drift pins are round.

 

And who is this Pat Pending guy?

 

Don't know, but he makes a ton of stuff.

He must be rich!

 

His name is on so much stuff even back in the 1800's so he has to be real old too.

 

I maybe it is one of them multi-generational family names, like Pat Pending Jr., Pat Pending III, and Pat Pending IV.

 

My grandmother had a set of them (the reason that I responded to this post).....pretty sure she wasn't baking potatoes with drift pins.
https://oldekitchen.com/products/hot-rod-aluminum-7-vintage-potato-baking-spikes
https://www.ebay.com/itm/POTATO-SPI...TED-HOT-ROD-Brand-Great-for-age-/323982781546

 

Damn, when I joined this site, never ever thought I'd be discussing potato spikes. They're aluminum and have been around for years. These might be considered "period correct".....they are from the 30's.

"Potato Spikes help produce well-baked potatoes in less time because once they are inserted in potatoes and placed in the oven, they become instant heat conductors. Cooking time is reduced* because they disperse heat evenly throughout the potatoes."

 

If it was, it worked. Amazon alone has 2 pages of different variations of them for sale.

 

Add butter and salt/pepper to taste .

 

Pat Pending sounds like a good Irish name, figures he's make a good potato spike.

 

Here's a Morse Taper drift key:


Definitely not what's in question. The lower edge is straight, the upper edge is radiused.

 

Bet it would make a good potato spike though.

 

When roasting a chicken in the oven you get a similar effect by inserting a large spoon. I've done it.

 

never met a potato I didn't like.

 

I thought it was a beer can you were supposed to use

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I keep looking at what appear to be multiple quotation marks around the words and I recall a business or marketing campaign. Seems to me there was someone that used that logo 15-20 years ago but I’ve looked and have not come up with it yet.
Anyone else remember this?

 

You can

 

I wonder how Hot the Rod gets?

 

I have heard them called a drift before. Maybe it is a mid west term.

BTW drift punches are round too. LOL

 

You might be right......but I don't take those to be quotation marks. I take them to be a "hot to touch" graphic.
Kind of an early version of this.....but that's JMO and speculation on my part.

 

So, "potato spikes" or a "spoon" or beer can in your chicken placed in a microwave would produce ____________?
Would the beer can be empty or half full to produce that "Beer Battered" taste? Reason for half full is you need to check conformity.

 

i knew they were not drift pins when i saw they were made of aluminum, as well as being shaped wrong.

 

I think this comment sums it up. I could see the advertising/marketing correlation, back in the day, coming up with a "heated spike" being named the "Hot Rod".

As a side note: I barbeque all year long and I always use an aluminum potato spike for baked potatoes as does my wife in the oven and crock pot. Cuts the time down not quite in half.....but pretty damn close.

Does anyone else think this thread has gone on way to long?

 

Might be a bit overcooked...