I want to know what exactly is in a hot dog.?

Answer 1

I don't think you really want to know . . . unless you're looking to give them up. I can't help it, I still gotta have one now and then.

Answer 2

Hot dogs are typically prepared commercially by mixing the ingredients (meats, spices, binders and fillers) in large vats where blades grind and mix the ingredients together. This mixture is then forced into casings for cooking. Most hot dogs sold in the US are called "skinless" as opposed to more expensive "natural casing" hot dogs.

What seems to scare most folks is a book written just over a hundred years ago. Upton Sinclair wrote THE JUNGLE in 1906 and It launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants in Chicago, resulting in many changes in the food laws of America. Over 100 years have passed and yet some people think that hot dogs are still made with stuff off the slaughterhouse floor, amazing.

Answer 3

I buy the beef dogs because that is what it is made of beef.
Hot dogs, also called frankfurters, were first created in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1852. At its heart, a frankfurter is a sausage. Hot dogs are now made by hundreds of companies all across the globe, and each company has its own secret recipe. In general, however, hot dogs contain:

Meat
Meat fat
A "cereal filler" (bread crumbs, oatmeal or flour)
A little egg white
Spices (onion, garlic, salt, pepper, etc.)
Marshall Brain's mother has a recipe that contains 1.5 pounds of pork, 0.75 pounds of pork fat, 0.25 cups of bread crumbs, an egg white, a little water, salt, pepper, onion and garlic to taste. Note that this recipe leaves out the preservatives, coloring and sodium nitrate that you find in store-bought hot dogs. Many brands leave out the bread crumbs and say "no cereal fillers" on the label. Cereal fillers got a bad name because some manufacturers got greedy and started using more filler than meat.
These ingredients are blended together in a meat grinder or a food processor, and then they are stuffed into sausage casings. Most of the hot dogs you get in the store are stuffed into synthetic collagen casings, but if you are making them at home you can use natural casings

Once the hot dogs are stuffed, you pre-cook them (you can boil them in water for 15 minutes) and then refrigerate or freeze them. All hot dogs bought at the store are pre-cooked. When you are ready to eat one, you cook it again by boiling, microwaving, frying or grilling it.

Answer 4

It's true - hot dogs are a "processed" food and is not nutritinally sound. Any type of lunchmeat - salami, bologna etc. are also processed. It's best to eat in moderation, if at all. But hot dogs still remain my #1 pig out food, and I don't want to know exactly what's in them!

Answer 5

I don't think you really want to know. Any thing that can't be sold otherwise goes into a hot dog, including organs such as heart lungs, etc. Plus preservatives, flavouring, and liquid smoke, a real artery clogger.

Answer 6

Hooves, feet, tongue, snout, i went on a tour of a meat processing plant, and well... Hotdogs are the leftovers of the unusable cuts. They can only sell so many pigs feet, beef tongue, brains, snout etc... A whole lotta TMC(super salt) and emulsion and you have a hot dog.

Answer 7

Do you really?
They have all the pieces that is left over from the slaughter- really I know
lips, butt, tail etc.,etc.
They do have all beef etc but were you there?
I love a hotdog when I do not think of how it got there!

Answer 8

you don't want know It's the left overs of anything at a sloter house. I recently found this out, disgusting isn't it.

Answer 9

all the scraps. A bit of every body part of the cow.

Answer 10

some have beef in them, some have pork and fillers. the best ones are all beef but they all have nitrates which are really bad for you - they can cause cancer. it's best not to eat them at all.