Hot dog “fix”

[nicholls47]

So I have trouble when using cellulose hot dog casing keeping the hot dog twisted when going in smoker. Came up with an easy solution-little more time, but comes out with the traditional hot dog look. Just a quick wrap with bread twist ties

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[Mcjagger]

nicholls47 nice little trick !!

[Dave in AZ]

Nice, those look good! How’d you do your hotdog grind?

[nicholls47]

Thanks! I did a coarse grind, then ran it through 3 additional times on a 3mm plate

[Dave in AZ]

nicholls47 thx! I wanted to make hot dog consistency sausages, but didnt want to food process it all. I like a tight grind and bind on a lot of sausages I recall from being stationed in Germany. Thx for your tip!

[tarp]

It’s the little things that make life easy, smarter not harder…

[cdavis]

nicholls47 those hot dogs look great and that is a great hack that I will be using. Thanks

[PapaSop]

nicholls47
Had to look back at some old posts. Parksider had some success with linking but only if you did it in the shape of a globe. His other way, twist ties.

[wdaly]

nicholls47 Those dogs look fantastic. Haven’t made hot dogs yet but when I do, I’ll use your grind method. Thanks.

[Mcjagger]

nicholls47 That’s exactly what I do, 1 course grind then 3 times 3mm…I’ve never done an emulsified hot dog but this way does the trick for me !!!

[nicholls47]

Seems to be pretty close to emulsified as you can get! Sticky stuff!

[Cory Brown]

DUDE!!! I’m going to use this!!! My only concern is how they would hold up in the water bath finish. I usually just use the multi twist making 4 dogs at the same level.

[PapaSop]

Cory Brown said in Hot dog “fix”:

DUDE!!! I’m going to use this!!! My only concern is how they would hold up in the water bath finish. I usually just use the multi twist making 4 dogs at the same level.

Check out some old posts from Parksider . He water bathed everything.

[nicholls47]

There was no problem w them holding up-worked perfectly!