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how do you cook hotdogs without a grill?

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Red Squirrel said:
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.
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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.
 
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)
 
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.
 
DCal430 said:
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.
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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.
 
ShawnD1 said:
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.
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That same danger exsist in all cold meats even roast beef, ham, and turkey. It is negligible at best.
 
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.
 
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.
 
chop bacon, cook in pan until there's some grease, add hotdogs, cook until bacon is crispy.

bun, condiments, dog, top with crispy bacon.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.)
 
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