We don’t eat hotdogs often, but we all like them. Adams Meat Market in Marble has the absolute best hotdogs I’ve ever eaten. They sell them as fast as they can make them. They are beef hotdogs.
If I can’t have hotdogs from Adams I like the Nathan brand of hotdogs. They are also beef hotdogs. Of course there are lots of different hotdog brands and different people like different ones. Granny loves Oscar Myer hotdogs.
The other night we had hotdogs at church. A lady said her mother always boiled hotdogs so she didn’t even know you could cook them in other ways till she was grown.
Matt loves to grill them as do many folks. Like the mother from church Granny always boiled her hotdogs unless we were eating them outside.
I prefer broiling them. I lay out the hotdogs on a cookies sheet, drizzle Worcestershire sauce or coconut aminos on them and sprinkle with a seasoning mix like Tony Chacheres.
Place the pan under the broiler and cook till done to your liking, it doesn’t take long so you have to keep an eye on them.
When it comes to hotdog toppings the sky is the limit. I’ve seen people who prefer only ketchup on their hotdogs and I’ve heard folks say they can’t believe anyone would put ketchup on a hotdog 🙂
I love mine with ketchup, slaw, and chili. Many people must have chopped onions on their hotdogs. Matt adds mayo, mustard, ketchup, and chili to his and takes his slaw on the side.
When I was growing up Granny rarely made hotdogs with buns and all the trimmings, but we often had weenies sliced and fried up in a jar of Granny’s kraut.
Especially fun were the times Pap and Granny would have a weenie roast out in the backyard. Pap sharpened sticks for us to cook our hotdogs over the fire.
Granny would get so excited—was it the food? I don’t think so. It was the family sitting together eating and fellowshipping that she liked.
Here’s a quote from a post I wrote about a weenie roast we had back in 2011.
“These days we don’t have weenie roasts often, but when one of us calls the other and says “You want to have a weenie roast?” I feel the same excitement Granny used too. I know there’ll be laughter, joking, and talk ranging from Daffy Duck’s use of the word accoutrement to people’s extravagant preparation for armageddon.”
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Tipper
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Read your post about hot dogs and had my wife stop at Adams market on our way to Teaberry Hill rv campground near Stcoah. Everyone loved those hotdogs Thanks for the tip
Leslie
I have never thought to broil hotdogs but what you described sounds really good. Love the memories about the weeney roast with the family. I like hotdogs grilled but we mostly boil them too.
Your broiled Hot dogs sound delicious. I’ll give then a try. I use the Oscar Meyer Beef hot dogs. I have been air frying mine ever since I got my little air fryer. I cut “X’s” all down the length of the hot dog then air fry them till the edges of the X’s turn dark. I then put mayo and cheese on a Brioche hot dog bun and open it to air fry it till the cheese puffs up and browns. I then top that with the dog, mustard, ketchup, chili, vegetarian pork n beans, onions, chow chow, slaw, potato salad, relish, kraut and any thing else I can get my hands on. I once went to Fudruckers and got a hotdog and covered it with every topping they had. I couldn’t even see the hot dog or bun on the plate and it was piled at least 6″ high. I ate every bite. I have a pinterest board dedicated to hot dogs. Love Y’all -Barbara
My favorite hot dog memories are with my extended family on vacations at the beach. We kids would start looking for sticks early. Once the sun set, the bonfire would be built & lit. Family members, young & old would roast hotdogs, then marshmallows. Such sweet memories.
I love hot dogs, mustard chilli and onions. I especially love Bright Leaf brand from Smithfield packing Co. They’re red in color and I think made of whatever pork and beef they have on hand but they are delicious.
i’m a little late to the hotdog party, but it’s so funny – my sister and I were just talking about hotdogs yesterday and how we hadn’t had any in ages. I had just finished canning your coleslaw recipe, and I was getting a hankering for a nice crispy grilled hotdog with some coleslaw on it. I cannot eat gluten anymore, and the gluten-free hotdog buns are not worth the plastic they’re wrapped in. So, desperate times call for desperate measures, and I ended up with a nice broiled crispy beef hotdog cut open with a bunch of coleslaw piled on top, minus a bun. It was delicious!
I like mine cooked over a fire mostly burned.
Mama used to cut up hot dogs and cook them in a pot of Great Northern beans. So good.
My hotdog has mustard and onions on it.
Have a great week at the folk school.
My mom used to put hot dogs in kraut and make slick dumplings and add to the pot – sooo good! She would serve with mashed potatoes and ladle everything over them. I miss those! We grill or put in the air fryer now – but I may need to make a pot of moms sometime soon. Good memories!
I’ve et many a hot dog (but no dachshunds). I’ve lost my taste for them. I lilke to think it’s because the dogs have changed, not me. I suspect manufacturing methods and preservatives to increase shelf life have slowyly transmogrified them, but I have not proof.
My bride (of 65 years) likes them far better than I do. She would serve them weekly if I didn’t protest. I much prefer bratwurst in a bun these days, with mustard and kraut.
So many delicious memories !!! 🙂
Hotdogs – another very versatile food that can be served so many ways according to taste. We ate a lot of them growing up, usually boiled, with relish, diced onions and tomatoes, mustard, lettuce, or even just plain and simple with mustard & ketchup, but often mama would often cut in half lengthwise and fry like bacon, or slice then in little rounds and add to fried cabbage, fried leftover taters, or added to a pot of homemade baked beans. I followed when it came to serving my own family. Favorites were cooked over a campfire. They used to be one of the cheaper meats but not so much anymore. Your picture had my mouth watering, Tipper…they look so GOOD!
My mom always boiled hot dogs. My dad was in charge of weenie roasts. They were usually done out in the woods. If I’m grilling my hot dogs at home I top them with mustard and onions. My town has a place called the Texas Hot. It’s been run by the same two Greek families for over 100 years. It has made both families multi millionaires. The hot dogs are topped with mustard, a wonderful chili sauce and finely chopped onions. They are fantastic!!! I hope you have a wonderful week!!!
I definitely prefer the Hebrew hotdog, they’re made with all beef and usually much fewer fillers. I’ll get a hankering for them, and about an hour later, I’m wondering to myself, what have I done?
I like hotdogs and prefer to grill or broil or roast them over a nice campfire. Toppings make a good hotdog even better. Absolutely no ketchup or mayo for me! Why, that’s akin to blasphemy! Mustard only, or with chili, chopped onions and slaw is a real winner. Bavarian style kraut and mustard is very good occasionally. Simple sausage and a good bun can make a great canvas, so dress it as you like.
Larry, I am a sinner, I didn’t say it in my comment but I have got to have ketchup on my hotdogs, hamburgers, fried taters, and a few other things. I do love coleslaw, but not on my hotdogs, I have ate it on BBQ sandwiches. I am too sweet for sour kraut or buttermilk! That is my story and I am sticking to it. Daddy was the only one in my family that would eat or drink either one. I don’t like mayonnaise on my hotdogs or hamburgers, only mustard.
After learning how they’re made I’m picky about dogs and what kind I get but my favorite is for sure over a fire, slightly burnt, fixed any old way. S’mores for dessert except I read an old Swedish recipe where you char an apple over the fire, then peel, roll in cinnamon sugar, then back in the fire to caramelize. Haven’t tried yet but sounds delicious so thought I’d share. Never liked pork and beans with weenies cut up. That’s what we ate when times were bad. Every time I think the weather is calming down enough for a fire we get a sudden pop up down pour and my wood gets soaked again. Fingers crossed.
I love hotdogs and used to like them boiled but now I don’t like them that way at all. I use the broiler or on the grill now days. Sometimes I just sear them in a cast iron pan as well.
Oh how fun! Weenie roasts make me so happy too,it is about the fellowship like you said. Gathering round a campfire just makes me smile for hours. ❤️ We haven’t done one this summer, but we have made homemade corndogs using those Nathan’s brand hot dogs and a cornmeal batter. They were so good!
My grandson, the foodie, loves his beef hot dogs browned in butter on top of the stove and smothered in ketchup. He always takes a picture of his plate of food to send to his daddy. His dad said, “Son, why did you go and ruin a good hot dog with ketchup?” I was looking for something quick to make for supper yesterday. I hate to fire up the grill for one hot dog, and it was too hot to turn the oven on, so I tried the browned in butter method of cooking my hot dog. It was good and almost burned, the way I like them. A lot of chopped onion is all I eat on mine. Mom never cooked hot dogs when I was home. I was in my late teens when I ate my first one from an A&W restaurant.
I love your method of broiling the hot dogs…never thought of that! Sounds so tasty . I was just talking to my friend over the weekend about how I had a craving for a weenie roast…been too long. I remember one time, several years ago, I was at the beach with my man friend, enjoying the sunset, & there was a mama grilling hotdogs over a little portable grill. They smelled so delicious that I looked over &I must’ve looked hungry because she offered me one and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer! I still remember that moment…the generous woman, the delicious hotdog right off the grill, the sand & the sunset…perfection!
I like mustard and relish on my hot dog. We do enjoy cooking them over the bonfire it’s my kids favorite fall thing to do here at home. And they love them sliced up in baked beans for beanie weanies.
When we had weenie roast with our friends from church, he could tell windy stories (tall tales) and we would listen with such enjoyment. It was certainly a time to get excited about.
I like my hot dogs roasted nice and crisp. Mayo mustard onions and relish is a favorite topping combo. Or sometimes just mayo and ketchup. And a good all beef dog is the best!
We like grilling Nathan’s and for a sauce I carmelize onions and add kraut and “ Sneaky Pete’s” hot dog sauce in a pot on stove top. It’s almost like the hot dog restaurants I grew up with in Birmingham
I grew up with the hot dogs being boiled except when we went camping and then they were roasted over the open fire. I liked these best. Now a days we rarely eat hot dogs mainly due to our GI systems being intolerant of them. But when we do I broil them, we like them a little crisp. In the last few years, I make “baked” beans which are really cooked on top of the stove and add these to the top of the dogs. My grandson and I like onions, so we pile them on top. When there is a larger group, I have chili available. Of course, there is always Cole slaw and if there is room I put it on top with the baked beans. I only buy the beef hot dogs. When my children were young we went camping a lot usually with my parents and a brother and sister’s family. We stood around the campfire with our sticks of hot dogs in the fire and laughed and had a good time. Now, that’s been quite a few years, but the memories are there. Granny is right, it’s so much better to be with family and fellowship.
Tricia, I have got to stop with my replies or comments. I have often mentioned the importance of time spent with family. There would often be around 25 family members and a few friends camping together at Oconee State Park, Mt. Rest, SC or Greenwood State Park. All of this was in the past, many of these family members have now died. Only thing left now are memories. A price tag can’t be put on the happiness and joy we enjoyed with one another. We were not loud and never caused a disturbance and there was never any alcohol involved, many times the park ranger would stop and spend time with us. He especially liked to come by and eat a home grown and cured country ham and trimmings breakfast cooked on an old Coleman stove with my wife’s granddaddy at the break of day each morning we were there.
In my growing up years we so rarely had “store-bought” prepared food that I kinda skipped developing a taste for any. The few exceptions include Saltine and Ritz crackers and shredded wheat. My wife would be thunderstruck if I were to say I wanted a hot dog. Anyway, if/when we have any they are the “all beef” like Nathan’s. (I put that in quotes because I’m a bit sceptical of the “all”) On a related side note though, I am looking for some Troyers Trail Bologna from Trail, OH which is a dry, all beef bologna from a 1912 recipe. As to a weenie roast, I think most everything is better with some smoke, even if just in the air.
Ron, when I was growing up at home we would eat homemade hotdogs on rare special occasions. The few “store bought” hotdogs we ate were extra special. Hamburgers were even more rare. For us a hotdog held the same status as eating steak does nowadays. We couldn’t grow hotdogs or hamburgers in our large garden that we depend on for the majority of our food.
My favorite hot dogs are either slaw dogs or kraut dogs
When I read Pap sharpened a stick, I immediately pictured my dad taking out his pocket knife and sharpening the end of our sticks for the same thing. A simple marshmallow and weenie roast would get me so excited as a child! I still enjoy my hotdogs best this way!
I do enjoy a good hot dog with a toasted bun, chili, onions, mustard, cheese and slaw. I’ve at times had relish on mine and if there is no cole slaw I have just put mayonnaise on it with mustard. If there are nothing available but ketchup and mustard then that’s what I use. They can be boiled. Broiled, roasted or cooked over an open fire, it’s all good to me. I’ve also had them chopped up and cooked with cabbage or pork and beans. I’ve had them wrapped in crescent rolls and baked or dipped in a corn batter and deep fried for corn dogs. I do prefer all beef, and I too think Nathan’s or Hebrew National Beef are the best, but now days it’s what ever is on sale is what I buy.
I think to a true Southerner, a hotdog “all the way” means bun, weenie, mustard or mayonnaise and CHILI, onions are an option, anything else says you are not from the south. My friend from Iowa that moved to Greenville many years laughs about the first time he ordered a hotdog “all the way” he was brought a hotdog like I described and he didn’t know what the chili was. I call a hotdog with just mustard, ketchup and relish a Yankee hotdog. At home we most often boil the weenies and warm the bun, now in a microwave, but I remember when the buns were steamed. In upstate South Carolina we have the famous Skin Thrasher ( often called Skins) hotdog restaurants. These restaurants started from one “mill hill restaurant”at Anderson, SC. Unless they have changed, they only serve hotdogs, tater chips, and soda drinks along some type of Little Debbie style cakes for dessert. At my last count, I think there were about10 of these restaurants scattered around upstate SC and maybe even a few in Georgia. The original mill hill restaurant would sell beer, a limit of two and had a sign on the wall saying “the language you use in church is good enough to use in here” or something very similar. As far as I know, it is still open and first opened in the 1940’s. Just a side note, my wife worked for a meat packing company in the early 1990’s, Skin bought his hamburger meat for his chili from them, he was buying over a thousand pounds of hamburger meat each week from them, this was when there was was only two or three restaurants and before he had as many restaurants as they are now. I bet we have a one time Anderson member, Gene, that now lives in Florida that can chime in on what I wrote about Skin hotdogs. By the way, I like to now make my homemade hotdogs using the cheapest Carolina Pride weenies, (Greenwood, SC) and Foster’s chili, after all, a hotdog ain’t suppose to be healthy food!
I love hot dogs! Unfortunately anymore they don’t love me… so I rarely eat them, but when I do I definitely want them grilled or broiled at home, with chili & mustard, potato chips as a side! My oldest daughter loves hot dogs too, but my husband and youngest daughter won’t eat one for nothing! Same arrangement with bologna at my house
i mainly only get a hir dog at a baseball game, 2-3 times a year. The ones sold outside Orioles Park at Camden Yards are the best. I’m strictly mustard-only, sauerkraut if available (it rarely is). At home I would broil them, unseasoned. I like Hebrew Nationals. one of my earliest memories is of a weenie roast on the family farm of my much-older sister’s husband. I remember being told what was the best stick to use. I would have been 5 or 6.
There is a hot dog (they have a few other items) spot in Virginia Beach, VA that does not have kethcup in the store. They do not think it ought to be put on hotdogs!
Is that Famous Uncle Al,s place?
I like my dog extra crispy! We eat kraut and weenies, or beans and weenies. We don’t have them often, but once in a while I want a good crispy dog.
I can hardly wait for bonfire season. Cooler weather, hoodies, weenies, and the kids want s’mores made with Reese cups.
I’m with Granny….good times!
I love hearing your family memories. This reminds me of doing weinie roasts. We grew up with a gas stove and me and my brother would roast hotdogs on the open flame with a fork. I’m sure it made a mess, but I don’t remember.
Good times!!