Roasting, broiling, steaming, and sautéing were all far better. The microwave was disqualified almost immediately-the box has speed on its side, but it distributes heat unevenly, so one end of the sausage could be bang on 150☏, while the other would be scorched at 180☏. Photo by Chelsea Kyle, food styling by Anna StockwellĪnd so I tested other methods. Toasting the buns though, that's non-negotiable. But in my heart there was only one method: grilling. In my head was that long, aforementioned list of techniques. Now that I knew how hot I had to get my hot dogs (and had gotten pretty expert at probing them), it was time to start testing methods. (Of course, skinless dogs are much more popular, because they're cheaper to produce and life is unfair.) Is Grilling the Best Way to Cook Hot Dogs? I know the latter sound less than ideal, but trust me, natural casing hot dogs beat skinless ones, for one very good reason: the casing's snappy texture. This logic applied to both skinless hot dogs and natural-casing hot dogs (the kind that have an animal intestine wrapping). Above 165, they start to burst and dry out. Below 140, hot dogs have a spongy, muted flavor. The testing confirmed a window between 150 and 160 is ideal. To accurately measure, I got extremely comfortable with my meat thermometer and probed every hot dog I could get my hands on. They recommend cooking sausages to a final temperature of 155☏.
“Sausage may be the most commonly overcooked protein in America, after the chicken breast," they write. Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn, in their seminal cookbook, Charcuterie, get a little more specific.
If you listen to the USDA, you should "reheat hot dogs and luncheon meat until steaming hot before eating,” which, if you ask me, is a bit vague. But before I started, I needed to figure out just how hot to go. I set out to heat up hot dogs using every cooking method I could think of, including poaching, roasting, steaming, deep frying, sautéing, broiling, microwaving, and, of course, grilling. To What Internal Temperature Should a Hot Dog Be Cooked And that, it turns out, is a harder question to answer.
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So the the real question about hot dogs is not how to cook them, but how best to heat them up.
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