Hot dogs. Us carnivores love them. "Why?" is not the question. There are no questions; there is only hot dog.There are many ways to prepare to the hot dog. With the coming of Summer, millions of my countrymen will drag out their grills and pretend they know how to cook something without making it resemble the charcoal briquettes used to cook it in the first place. I suppose that's better than microwaving their dogs. Microwaving makes the meat taste funny and makes for a rather deformed looking frank. Not exactly good choices either way, yes? However, an overlooked and underrated hot dog cooking method is boiling.
Boiling has several benefits. By being immersed in water, the meat cooks more evenly, resulting in a uniformly pleasant texture. The dog will emerge from the pot delightfully plump. The other benefit to boiling your hot dogs is the natural cleansing effect the hot water has on the dog. Boiling helps remove some of the nitrates from the dog, making the dog (slightly) healthier than grilling, and no doubt a hell of a lot healthier than using that molecular-structure-altering microwave.
Bear in mind my faithful readers, every year millions of your fellow American citizens make the mistake of not boiling their hot dogs. Don't be one of them. Boil those dogs.
5 comments:
i am with you sir. i do dig the occasional grill charred or microwaved dog when necessary, but boiling is my prefered method. those ones on the street are surprisingly awesome, and boy do i love grey's papaya. ever get to chance to try one of their dogs while you were down here?
Nein. Perhaps next time I'm down there.
Long Live Grey's Papaya.
Thanks for the funny post.
I like boiled dogs. I prefer grilled, charry, blackened dogs.
I reserve the right to punch anyone microwaving a hot dog.
That's just fucking ridiculous.
I had no less than three boiled dogs at Faculty Appreciation Day yesterday, after jonesing ever since you wrote this post, and by god they were good.
i no longer eat the lil buggers of variable components, but my favorite tactic is a sort of combo: put water in a shallow pan, just enough to have the dogs about half wet. boil them thus for about 5 or so minutes, rolling them around like pigs and dogs live to do (two of the meats in the frank, go figure!). then drain the water and give them a squirt of oil and a nice healthy sear from the skillet. evenly cooked, cleaned, and a lil crunchy, perfect. tune in next time for blog comment cooking with andrew, where we will be dissecting miso soup and delicious rice techniques.
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