I bought a corn dog maker from amazon for 18.99 & free shipping, no sales tax. It came in yesterday & I tried it out last night. There are several reasons for buying it...cheap, cheap corn dogs and my 5 year old grandson likes to help in the kitchen and there's no way I'd let him near a skillet full of hot grease to make them the old fashioned way that I used to do. It makes small corn dogs...you cut the hot dog in half, so you get 2 small corn dogs from each dog. Also, frozen corn dogs (on sale) today are 4.99 for 16 and the kids usually only eat half each, but both want the stick, so half of each one goes in the garbage. That's 31 cents each. Another plus is that all bought corn dogs have lots of sugar in the batter & I hate sweet cornbread. I made my own batter with "on sale" ingredients and the price came out to be a bit less than a nickel each. The weinners were in the freezer & were bought a while back at .50 per pack . It comes with 25 bamboo sticks that really are twice as long as needed, so I'll make 50 out of the 25. Also, I see removing the sticks after they cool and freezing them to fry later (cause I love them fried). My daughter bakes the store bought kind for the kids and these taste similar to those with the exception of all that sugar...and that's a good thing. I figure it'll pay for itself fairly quickly as they love corn dogs and so do I.