Can anyone qualified clarify how cables are "cooked"?
Isn't the purpose of "cooking" cables just a matter of moving valence electrons around to break in a cable?
Can't someone just have an appropriate source of current and voltage such as a power supply of the proper voltage connected to the cables and then to a lightbulb, motor (or similar) and accomplish the same goal for pennies on the dollar? This is just how my mind works...