Best hot dog ever?
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Had brats on the grill today.
My late hubby was with Oscar Mayer, Armour Foods, and Ball Park.
He said of the 3 that Ball Park was the winner for quality.
But...his personal taste? Sabrett’s.
My late hubby was with Oscar Mayer, Armour Foods, and Ball Park.
He said of the 3 that Ball Park was the winner for quality.
But...his personal taste? Sabrett’s.
Once every few years, I get a craving for a Ball Park frank. We stock up on Hebrew National when they go on sale at Costco. I’m generally more of a fan of franks from local meat markets. We always stop at this place when in the north country to load up on brats and natural casing weiners. The absolute best around.
https://stjosephmeatmarket.com/
https://stjosephmeatmarket.com/
We had some kind of silent auction in law school where a professor would take you on a hot dog tour until you couldn’t take anymore. I think I ate 14. I never really hit any of the north side stands before, and the char dog at wolfys was the best one I had. Only thing close was the one that was under one of the far north brown line stops that had a bottle of Johnny walker blue with the dog
Adults eat
Adults eat hotdogs? 🤷♂️HOLY CRAP! I'm on my knees bowing down to this:
Freaking awesome!
And a hamburger, and a pulled pork sammich, and mac n cheese, and baked beans, and.... *burp*
I love baked beans. I make some badass vegan baked beans. If you’re ever up in my neck of the woods, hit me up and I’ll share some with you.
Icelandic hot dogs are hands down the best I’ve ever had. Made with lamb meat.
You know uncured means nothing right? It's the new vogue thing to do and involves a replacement of sodium nitrate/nitrite/erthyrobate aka Prague Salt #2 or #3 with celery salt, which wait for it, contains similar chemicals.
There is no fvcking way you are a real person.
Gotta try Schickhaus natural casing franks (from jersey shore).
Damn just went to a post on chowhound about the franks and saw chowhound shut down 2 days ago after 25 yrs. RIP.
A few years back Fareway had a quarter pound hot dog at the meat counter. It was absolutely outstanding. Generally I prefer an all beef hot dog, but this one wasn't even that. Just a generic blend but it was really, really good. Then one winter when they pulled a lot of their summer items it never came back and was replaced the following spring in that spot next to the brats by the 'Vegas dog.'. Whatever that is... it paled in comparison. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a kid at heart that actually really likes hot dogs as an adult. Due largely to my time working in the restaurant industry we eat very well around our house. But hot dogs are still an odd item I still really like, and man those Fareway quarter pounders were awesome.
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Maybe a little over the top OP.HOLY CRAP! I'm on my knees bowing down to this:
Freaking awesome!
Those are some good dogs though.
I was a huge fan of Chowhound and was hugely disappointed they were mismanaged (financially not productwise) into oblivion. Between Chowhound and Allrecipes that would have accounted for about 50% of the new recipes I would try.
I’ve had Schickhaus rec’d before and they are nearly impossible to order online for some reason. I just checked again and none of the places purporting to have them actually DO have them in stock. I’m not a frequent Jersey Shore visitor (just twice but I do absolutely love the White House Italian “Submarine” and frequently list it as one of my top five sandwiches of all times), but next time I’m there I absolutely will check it out.
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I eat maybe 4 or 5 hotdogs in a year, usually at a tailgate or maybe one on the Fourth of July. I’m not all that worried.
Your butt should be fine 🙂. I did buy your late husband's hot dog brand. Good stuff.
honestly, i don't think there is such a thing as "best hot dog ever", hot dogs and other wursts are fine, but with the possible exception of bratwurst, are generally pretty uninspiring as food goes.HOLY CRAP! I'm on my knees bowing down to this:
Freaking awesome!
There’s a huge difference in taste and overall quality between something like the Feltman’s Uncured Beef hot dog in a natural casing with a very short ingredient list of just meat and a few spices versus a Ballpark or Oscar Mayer hot dog made up of %*%* meat and a chemical list a mile long.
Nice to see Sahlen's getting the love. Did I turn you on to them? There's a couple Sahlens advocates on here (or previously on Warchant).
That's what I grew up on, and what I'm all about. Several years ago when Sahlen's got national distribution through Publix, I had no idea. I was just walking through Publix and saw them on the shelves, my eyes got watery and I almost burst into tears. It elevated my life. We have them about twice a month.
I'm strictly natural casing pork+beef, I just can't get used to the taste and mouth feel of an all beef dog. Before they got Sahlen's here, they started carrying Hoffmans, which is a totally fine hot dog. But before that, I couldn't find a natural casing pork+beef hot dog in the city of Atlanta. For 10+ years I lived off Sahlen's from the freezer from my annual trips to Buffalo.
Back in Buffalo, we had lots of choices. The only other dog for me that competes with Sahlens and I would sometimes choose over Sahlens is a Zweigel's (Rochester) hot, both red hots and white hots.
They haven't gotten national distribution after Hoffmans (Syracuse) and Sahlen's (Buffalo) but I keep hoping. Wardynski's is good too, but just Western NY regional I believe.
Nice to see Sahlen's getting the love. Did I turn you on to them? There's a couple Sahlens advocates on here (or previously on Warchant).
That's what I grew up on, and what I'm all about. Several years ago when Sahlen's got national distribution through Publix, I had no idea. I was just walking through Publix and saw them on the shelves, my eyes got watery and I almost burst into tears. It elevated my life. We have them about twice a month.
I'm strictly natural casing pork+beef, I just can't get used to the taste and mouth feel of an all beef dog. Before they got Sahlen's here, they started carrying Hoffmans, which is a totally fine hot dog. But before that, I couldn't find a natural casing pork+beef hot dog in the city of Atlanta. For 10+ years I lived off Sahlen's from the freezer from my annual trips to Buffalo.
Back in Buffalo, we had lots of choices. The only other dog for me that competes with Sahlens and I would sometimes choose over Sahlens is a Zweigel's (Rochester) hot, both red hots and white hots.
They haven't gotten national distribution after Hoffmans (Syracuse) and Sahlen's (Buffalo) but I keep hoping. Wardynski's is good too, but just Western NY regional I believe.
Lou,
You were the one to get me on to Sahlen's......was already a Hoffman's fan. I prefer the smokehouse over the all-beef, but I like them both. They are really at their best over charcoal, imo.
Yeah, Hoffman's are perfectly fine. I'm pretty much exclusively charcoal grilled when it comes to hot dogs, maybe 2% of the time I'll pan fry them, usually only if I'm making Texas Hots, but I pretty much only char grill them. I just don't think all-beef really cook the same over an open flame.
Nice to see Sahlen's getting the love. Did I turn you on to them? There's a couple Sahlens advocates on here (or previously on Warchant).
That's what I grew up on, and what I'm all about. Several years ago when Sahlen's got national distribution through Publix, I had no idea. I was just walking through Publix and saw them on the shelves, my eyes got watery and I almost burst into tears. It elevated my life. We have them about twice a month.
I'm strictly natural casing pork+beef, I just can't get used to the taste and mouth feel of an all beef dog. Before they got Sahlen's here, they started carrying Hoffmans, which is a totally fine hot dog. But before that, I couldn't find a natural casing pork+beef hot dog in the city of Atlanta. For 10+ years I lived off Sahlen's from the freezer from my annual trips to Buffalo.
Back in Buffalo, we had lots of choices. The only other dog for me that competes with Sahlens and I would sometimes choose over Sahlens is a Zweigel's (Rochester) hot, both red hots and white hots.
They haven't gotten national distribution after Hoffmans (Syracuse) and Sahlen's (Buffalo) but I keep hoping. Wardynski's is good too, but just Western NY regional I believe.
Yes, I got Sahlen’s after you mentioned your love for them. I’d previously had Hofman’s as well as they seem to have a bigger presence in Florida, but you can usually find the Natural Casing Sahlens at larger Publixes and even the small one three Blocks from me in Southwood carries the skinless version now.
Yeah, Hoffman's are perfectly fine. I'm pretty much exclusively charcoal grilled when it comes to hot dogs, maybe 2% of the time I'll pan fry them, usually only if I'm making Texas Hots, but I pretty much only char grill them. I just don't think all-beef really cook the same over an open flame.
We went through a pack of Sahlen's this past weekend. Wife (no pics) and I each had two on Friday. I had one on saturday (I had the coals going for other food, so why not)........and another two yesterday. Whenever Publix has a BOGO on them, I load up. I probably have ≈ 20 packs in one of the freezers. That should last me a year or more.
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