how do you cook hotdogs without a grill?

[brblx]

no, he's saying microwaves should have a defrost button for popsicles.

 

[lxskllr]

Cold weiners are ok, but if these are actually sausages, you HAVE to cook them. Grill is best way imo as the fats fall out. Otherwise a panini press (not pressed down) or pan may work ok. May even be able to just put them in the stove.

Or pass 240 volts through it. I hear that actually works well.

Hotdogs I boil. For Italian sausage, or other real sausages, I boil them in a cast iron pan. I fill it until the sausage is 3/4 covered, then turn every so often while cooking. I cook until the water's all gone, then let them crisp for a minute in the dry pan.

For cooking oil, olive is my preferred oil. I occasionally use something else to save money, but I like olive.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

For serious. Once I got these things called "popsicles." I took one out of the freezer and I, like, totally couldn't eat it. Forty or fifty minutes in the microwave and I had delicious sweet and colorful soup. :thumbsup:

Excellent trolling sir, and I know good trolling.

 

[shortylickens]

Excellent trolling sir, and I know good trolling.

Never on anandtech has more truth been spoken in one place.

 

[blinblue]

I consider hot dogs to be basically convenience food, and therefore is a perfect fit to be microwaved. 30 seconds per hot dog works great (as an aside, trader joe's chicken hot dogs are really pretty tasty)

 

[DCal430]

Boil them in beer.

Beer Steamed Crab is great and doesn't stink up the house at all. So I don't see why boiling beer would stink up the house.

 

[DCal430]

Hotdogs are all fully cooked already. If you dont mind cold food there is no major danger in not reheating them. So yes you can take a hot dog out the packaging and just eat as is.

 

[ShawnD1]

Hotdogs are all fully cooked already. If you dont mind cold food there is no major danger in not reheating them. So yes you can take a hot dog out the packaging and just eat as is.

The initial bacteria in the meat is dead, but what about the bacteria from the factory where it was packaged? You're probably eating spider eggs right now as I type this.

 

[DCal430]

The initial bacteria in the meat is dead, but what about the bacteria from the factory where it was packaged? You're probably eating spider eggs right now as I type this.

That same danger exsist in all cold meats even roast beef, ham, and turkey. It is negligible at best.

 

[ShawnD1]

That same danger exsist in all cold meats even roast beef, ham, and turkey. It is negligible at best.

Yeah and generally we took things like ham and turkey before eating them.

 

[DCal430]

Yeah and generally we took things like ham and turkey before eating them.

I was referring to sandwhich meats. Do you reheat them before eating, no you don't.

 

[ShawnD1]

I don't eat that garbage unless it's the heavily salted kind where nothing can possibly grow. Hotdogs are not salty, so the plague can grow like the plague on it.

 

[JSt0rm]

This is how you cook a hotdog


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNxXKe1OYzc

 

[TraumaRN]

Toaster oven.

Or broil them. It's literally an upside grill in your oven.

 

[cronos]

I mostly boil it, but sometimes I use frying pan, microwave, or straight up cold if I'm really lazy and just want a snack.

 

[Kirby]

chop bacon, cook in pan until there's some grease, add hotdogs, cook until bacon is crispy.

bun, condiments, dog, top with crispy bacon.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I usually keep some all beef franks in the freezer for just in case scenarios, of which only boiling is an acceptable cooking method for its speed and thoroughness

 

[nanette1985]

we used to cook them in the carbon-arc lamphouse during the show. also cooked other things like canned beans, chili, soup etc. do NOT try to roast marshmallows that way. trust me.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I don't eat that garbage unless it's the heavily salted kind where nothing can possibly grow. Hotdogs are not salty, so the plague can grow like the plague on it.

Sandwich meat is "garbage" but you eat hotdogs? Okay man...

 

[nageov3t]

tonight I butterflied one and pan-fried it in a bit of butter.

tasty :thumbsup:

now to figure out what to do with the last 2 dogs that I don't have buns for.

 

[Jeeebus]

the short answer is... "you don't"

 

[Rhoxed]

Or broil them. It's literally an upside grill in your oven.

This, broiled is the way to go without a grill, you still get that nice browning on the skin.

 

[shortylickens]

How come no jokes about hot dog flavored water?

 

[IronWing]

I tuck them between my third and fourth rolls and let them steam for a few minutes.

 

[DrPizza]

I get a few stainless steel nails, stick them through the ends (perpendicular to the hot dog), wire my hot dogs up in parallel, and plug them in to 120 volts. Takes roughly 90 seconds for a Ball Park Frank to plump open. (In series, 2 hotdogs obviously take roughly 4 times as long to cook; since the voltage across each is halved, and the branch circuit resistance is doubled, thus the current is also halved.)