How are hot dogs made?
Posted in Other - Food & Drink | Asked by Taking a troll across Y!A | 2012-01-27 15:12:37 | (13) answers

First, they find the ingredients: Anything they can find. Roadkill, fur, bones, car parts, rancid oil, potato peelings, old calculators, bricks, the stuff inside of vacuum cleaners, torn up hats, bits of paper, fireworks, people, Santa's elf things, components of televisions, sandals, makeup, sand, bristles from toothbrushes, glass, fans, drumsticks, sugar, cocaine, enthusiasm, skin, pears, fleas, carts, spark plugs, physics textbooks, snow, purple things, ink, xenon, tree bark, dog bark, sewage, receipts, shoulders, Soylent Green, gold, tabernacle, hoods, LEDs, stocks and shares, vampires, gasoline, sticky labels, shelves, salad, juices, envelopes, video tapes, honour, speed, pressure regulators, stitches, the enemy list of Nixon, the little black book of Clinton, colostomy bags, fashionable handbags, Gummi bears, reality television, snorkels, teeth, copies of the ET game, doors, the Haber process, truculence, travesties, hair, snacks for the road, appeals, kudos, mud, jewellery, paint, savate, paperclips, damp, traffic cones, handkerchief, self raising flour, carpet cleaner, candy, electrons, safety manuals and sonar capability.All of these things are mashed together and mixed with egg white and casino tokens to bind the mixture together. This mixture is then stuffed inside the skin. The skin is then glued shut so that the mess inside does not fall out.

by Gesto Culinary And Hospitality A...      2012-02-12 03:12:40

They are all wrong. Hot dogs are made of goat and sheep intestine. You are lucky you did not see the show and how they did it. ewww

by TheEpicT...      2012-02-11 22:12:47

hot dogs are utility meat - they are made of the leftover parts of animals after all the goodies have been taken away - tenderloins, steaks, roasts, etci prefer all-something hot dogs because of this - all-beef, all-turkey, all-pork

by patjc15      2012-02-11 05:12:52

First, specially selected meat trimmings of beef and/or pork -- just like the meat you buy in your grocer's case -- are cut or ground into small pieces and placed in a mixer. When poultry hot dogs are made, poultry trimmings are used.High speed, stainless steel choppers blend the meat, spices, ice chips and curing ingredients into an emulsion or batter. The mixture is continuously weighed to assure a proper balance of all ingredients.The mixture is then pumped into an automatic stuffer/linker machine, where it flows into casings. The most popular brands of hot dogs use cellulose casings, which are later removed. Some wieners use natural casings, which remain on the wiener when it is eaten. These wieners are considered more "traditional," are frequently made by smaller manufacturers and tend to cost a little more.Once the casings are filled, they are linked into long strands of hot dogs and moved to the smokehouse, there they are fully cooked under controlled temperature and humidity conditions. They may be hardwood smoked for added color and flavor.After passing through the smoke and cook cycle, the hot dogs are showered in cool water. If the hot dogs were made with cellulose casings, they are sent to an automatic peeler, where the cellulose "skin" is stripped away.The individual links are then conveyed to the packaging equipment. When cellulose casings are used, the hot dogs are of exact size and weight. They are vacuum sealed in plastic films to protect the freshness and flavor of the hot dog. Because the casings on natural casings wieners are made from cleaned and processed animal intestines, they are of similar, but not exact, size.

by Snacky      2012-02-07 23:12:39

First, they find the ingredients: Anything they can find. Roadkill, fur, bones, car parts, rancid oil, potato peelings, old calculators, bricks, the stuff inside of vacuum cleaners, torn up hats, bits of paper, fireworks, people, Santa's elf things, components of televisions, sandals, makeup, sand, bristles from toothbrushes, glass, fans, drumsticks, sugar, cocaine, enthusiasm, skin, pears, fleas, carts, spark plugs, physics textbooks, snow, purple things, ink, xenon, tree bark, dog bark, sewage, receipts, shoulders, Soylent Green, gold, tabernacle, hoods, LEDs, stocks and shares, vampires, gasoline, sticky labels, shelves, salad, juices, envelopes, video tapes, honour, speed, pressure regulators, stitches, the enemy list of Nixon, the little black book of Clinton, colostomy bags, fashionable handbags, Gummi bears, reality television, snorkels, teeth, copies of the ET game, doors, the Haber process, truculence, travesties, hair, snacks for the road, appeals, kudos, mud, jewellery, paint, savate, paperclips, damp, traffic cones, handkerchief, self raising flour, carpet cleaner, candy, electrons, safety manuals and sonar capability.All of these things are mashed together and mixed with egg white and casino tokens to bind the mixture together. This mixture is then stuffed inside the skin. The skin is then glued shut so that the mess inside does not fall out.

by Textually Active      2012-02-07 07:12:52

leftover meat put thru sausage machine

by Parakeet...      2012-02-05 17:12:43

all the throw away parts and wich ever Rat fell into the grinder!

by boogaloo      2012-02-03 19:12:40

Any extra parts of a cow, or a pig, that they don't need.is bunched up together

by Uhura      2012-02-01 21:12:53

Well seasoned minced meat is stuffed in to Intestines of Sheep using Sausage stuffer. Hot dogs may be grilled, steamed, boiled, barbecued, pan fried, deep fried, broiled, or microwaved.

by Tasha      2012-02-01 21:12:52

Well they take all the unmentionables from the beef or pork (snouts, ears, face, etc) and grind it all up like hamburger. This they mix with some fillers, like gums, to keep everything together. They add spice and mix it all up and push it into gut and there you have it.

by corn      2012-01-30 09:12:50

Contrary to popular belief, hot dogs are not made from left-over meat laying around on the floors of meat-packing houses. Whether it is pork or beef that is stuffed into a hot dog, the meat trimmings are carefully selected just like the meat you buy in your grocer's coolers.Most recipes for hot dogs combine together a tasty blend of favorite meats (pork, beef, chicken, or turkey), meat fat, a cereal filler which could be either bread crumbs, flour, or oatmeal, a little bit of egg white, and a mouth-watering array of herbs and seasonings including garlic, pepper, ground mustard, nutmeg, salt, and onion. Once these ingredients are grinded together, the stuffing is squeezed into sausage casings. Many of the hot dogs sold in stores are enclosed in synthetic cellulose casings, but most home-made hot dogs are made out of natural animal intestines. Following the stuffing process is the pre-cooking cycle in which the hot dog links are tossed into boiling water for approximately 15 minutes. Finally, the dogs are packaged, loaded on delivery trucks, and sent off to food markets.

by i wish they knew      2012-01-29 04:12:46

Commercial preparationHot dogs are prepared commercially by mixing the ingredients (meats, spices, binders and fillers) in vats where rapidly moving blades grind and mix the ingredients in the same operation. This mixture is forced through tubes into casings for cooking. Most hot dogs sold in the US are "skinless" as opposed to more expensive "natural casing" hot dogs.Natural casing hot dogsAs with most sausages, hot dogs must be in a casing to be cooked. Casing is made from the small intestines of sheep. The products are known as "natural casing" hot dogs or frankfurters. These hot dogs have firmer texture and a "snap" that releases juices and flavor when the product is bitten.Kosher casings are expensive in commercial quantities in the US, so kosher hot dogs are usually skinless or made with reconstituted collagen casingsSkinless hot dogs One of the more recent developments in hot dog preparation: The hot dog toaster."Skinless" hot dogs must use a casing in the cooking process when the product is manufactured, but the casing is usually a long tube of thin cellulose that is removed between cooking and packaging. Skinless hot dogs vary in the texture of the product surface but have a softer "bite" than natural casing hot dogs. Skinless hot dogs are more uniform in shape and size than natural casing hot dogs and less expensive.

by Jim      2012-01-29 01:12:49

What is scraped off the centrifuge wallafter the animal carcass stops spinning

by I can Kick your @ss!      2012-01-28 08:12:43

They take all the parts of the animal they can't sell, like lungs, lips, eyeballs, etc, put them in a strainer with tiny holes and squeeze it all through, leaving a pinkish grey pile of sludge. Nitrates are added to make it pink, then salt and maybe some spices. It is packed into (artificial) tubing, and cooked.