Boiled Hotdogs

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

why are you people eating hot dogs at any other place than baseball games?

Because you can buy 10 dogs for $2.00 instead of 2 dogs for $10.00.

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

If you were a hotdog, would you eat yourself? Its a simple question!

I toured a packing plant once and it took a couple of months before I could eat a hotdog or sausage again.

It was well over a year before I attempted "natural casing" hotdogs and sausage.

I just had to wait for some of those images to clear my memory.

 

[CYdTracked]

When I make them at home I boil them in a hot pot. Those things are small enough they boil fast. I don't really care to grill hot dogs unless they are the bigger ones as hot dogs are already pre-cooked so all you need to do is warm them up. I don't think grilling them really adds any flavor and usually most people burn the outsides if they put them on direct heat. Just need to warm them up is all.

 

[CYdTracked]

BTW folks, don't go cheap on your hot dogs either. Get beef hot dogs and avoid the ones with mechanically separated chicken in them. A little info on what it is: Mechanically separated chicken for food-Truth! Baiscally if you ever saw the stuff being made it's a paste/slush of all the left over chicken parts they don't use. Plus I think beef hot dogs taste better anyways. :smile:

 

[Flag Guy]

I don't know that I have ever personally boiled a hot dog, but I have certainly consumed them.

I definitly prefer them grilled though... I still give my old roommate crap about thinking boiled hotdogs were a good meal

 

[cy616]

Chicago hot dogs are boiled. So that is the correct way to cook them.

 

[nileo]

Thats the only way i ate them growing up.

 

[Cyforce]

Let me clarify, I boiled the hot dogs to make chili dogs. I only boil hot dogs when I make chili dogs otherwise the grill is the way to go. I should also mention that if you like hot dogs in your mac & cheese DO NOT boil the hot dogs with the macaroni.

So when you make chili dogs you boil them in a separate pan than the chili???? THAT'S CRAZY TALK!!!!!! Sorry for raising my voice.

 

[The_Architect]

Boiling is the ONLY way to make them at home without grilling. The hot-dog cooking hierarchy goes like this:

Grilling > Boiling > Microwave.

End of thread.

 

[edr247]

Boil 'em to cook em up a bit, then split them down the middle, lengthwise but leave just enough of the halves together so that they stay together (kinda like a hinge). Then fry them up in a bit of butter. Place in bun, add chili, top with onions and jalepeno relish and you're good to go.