What are hotdogs made out of?

Question

I hear so many rumors. Someone just tell me!!!!!!

Answer 1

Frankfurter content is regulated by law in the United States. Traditional hot dogs are made of beef, pork, veal, chicken or turkey. They are available with or without skins and may contain up to 30 percent fat and 10 percent added water. For vegetarians, there are tofu hot dogs.

Hot dog sizes range from about 2 inches (cocktail weiners) up to the famous foot-long hot dogs popular at sporting events. The most popular hot dog size is the standard 6-inch length usually sold in packages of ten.
Hot Dog Terms Regulated by Law
• Beef or all-beef: Contains only beef with no soybean protein or dry milk solid fillers added.

• Kosher: All-beef, usually heavily seasoned with garlic.

• Meat: A mixture of pork and beef, usually 40 percent pork and 60 percent beef with no fillers.

• Frankfurter: May contain up to 3.5 percent fillers and made from a combination of meats.

Answer 2

There are many types of hot dogs. The exact recipe will depend on the maker and the type ( ex: chicken, kosher, all beef)

Kosher and all-beef hotdogs use only beef. (With kosher hotdogs being much more selective of which cuts.)

Some brands allso make chicken hotdogs and I have even heard of vegetarian hotdogs.

Most hotdogs are a mix of beef, pork, and chicken, as well as "fillers" (such as oatmeal). Cheaper hotdogs tend to have more "filler", which is why they plump up more when cooked.

So basically, you have meat (or a blend of meats), spices and seasonings (because hot dogs are sausages, after all), and "filler" stuiffed into a casing of some sort.

"Natural casings" are made from intestinal linings. Other casings will be made of other products. Hotdogs without casings (I forget what they are called) are actually cooked in plastic casings, which are removied before shipping (I saw this on a TV special a few years ago.)

Answer 3

Good, don’t believe the myths. Hot dogs are simply made from the same meat you get in a roast or steak any other thing you’d find in the butchers case, it’s just that they use the pieces that are too small to make a decent roast, etc. Now, the term separated meat freaks some folks out, like it some kind of sinister plot to poison us all, but it just means that a machine cut the meat off the bone instead of a man. Ooooooo scary stuff, huh. But, don’t take my word for it. Go to Wikipedia (link below) and read the article there, or at least the part labeled "General Description". Next go to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council's page (link also below) and read "How hot dogs are made: The real story". Third go back to Wikipedia and check out at least the first chapter of Upton Sinclair's biography (again the link is below). Finally laugh at all the people that think there's anything more scary than too much sodium in a hot dog.

Answer 4

You don't want to know what is the content of most hot dogs.

However, there are several brands that have high quality standards and are made from beef products instead of pork. This is only my personal, well informed opinion and not an advertisement. Hebrew National and Nathan's. You can't go wrong with either. But, the price is much higher than the average hot dog.

The famous and legendary German statesman, Otto Von Bismarck, has a famous quote. It goes something like this: " Sausages are like politics. They are both tasty, but you never want to see how they are made."

Answer 5

I love meat, I try not to think about what is in a hotdog, but I have lots of them. I try to buy all beef and hope for the best.

I worked at a pickle plant. Good luck there also.

Answer 6

No, because there is no such thing as a hotdog in China, unless you count the ones available at Dairy Queen outlets. China has sausages...which taste more like spam, than a wiener, the meat part of the hot dog. A hot dog is a wiener in a bun.

Answer 7

Hot dogs get a bad rap. When they were first introduced into mainstream america, yes they were made out of things that you would probably never eat. Today however, hotdogs are made of choice processed meats. No hooves, intestines, snouts or eyes, just good meat.

Answer 8

Umm... you don't want to know! If you want the taste of a hotdog, but not the mystery - try a veggie dog. I think my favorite is Morningstar Farms. They are the closest that I have found in flavor, but they don't grill as nicely and the skin gets kinda tough if you heat it too long, but seriously, they are the best!

Answer 9

"All hot dogs are cured and cooked sausages that consist of mainly pork, beef, chicken and turkey or a combination of meat and poultry. Meats used in hot dogs come from the muscle of the animal and looks much like what you buy in the grocer's case. Other ingredients include water, curing agents and spices, such as garlic, salt, sugar, ground mustard, nutmeg, coriander and white pepper."

More info;
In 2006, Americans ate enough hot dogs at major league ballparks to stretch from RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. to AT&T Park in San Francisco.

New Yorkers eat more hot dogs than any other city population (even Chicago, also known for its hot dogs).

Travelers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport eat six times more hot dogs than travelers at Los Angeles International Airport and LaGuardia Airport combined.

Hot dog season -- during which Americans eat 7 billion hot dogs -- stretches from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Americans eat 150 million hot dogs on the fourth of July, alone

Answer 10

If you go and look at the packages, you will find that you can buy them made of all kinds of combinations of pork, chicken, turkey, and beef. Basically, they are mostly made of finely ground meat, with or without fillers like corn meal, and most of the meat is not prime cuts, but is the meat left over from trimmed meat.