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How hotdog are made? Just Curious?

What is the meat used inside the the hotdog?is it pork?

If the flavor is chicken or beef, is it the meat used inside the hotdog?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The Hot Dog is made with pork sausage.

    Of course you can make one with chicken or beef sausage, but this is not an original, authentic Hot Dog.

  • markp
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It depends on the hotdog .... I know that's a wishy washy looking answer but it's true. Go to the supermarket and look at the ingredients listed on the labels of all the different types. Typically the cheap nasty ones (coming in a tin can is a good sign) are just nasty, made of whatever scraps of chicken etc were left over from making other products that require identifiable meat texture (rather than that jelly-like consistency unique to cheap sausages), in a synthetic casing with lots of flavourings, preservatives, fat and other packing-out material. As you move up the price scale (into those either vac-packed or in a glass jar, and larger or called actual "Frankfurter" or "Bratwurst" etc) they're made of better quality and often single or more expected meats - pork and beef usually, or a mixture of the two is acceptable - and a greater proportion of them. And they taste nicer and have better texture!

    I don't know the exact method of manufacture but I'd expect it's much the same as other sausages - grind up the meat and other ingredients and stuff/pipe it into a tubular casing - except they use more spices and a darker coloured casing, and often pre-cook it so it will keep longer and can be eaten from the container whilst cold if necessary (do check this is the case first though! A favourite summer lunch ingredient of mine is are the better class of vac-pack frankfurters chopped up and put on a regular greenleaf & tomato salad... uncooked as the package says they can be eaten from cold, most excellent!)

    Source(s): I had to learn about this at some point, but I can't remember why. I won't touch the cheap tinned ones any more, the thought of what goes into them is very unappealing. ... still better than Quorn / Tofu-dogs though. They're like eating sponge.
  • 1 decade ago

    Contrary to popular belief, hot dogs are not made from left-over meat laying around on the floors of meat-packing houses. Whether it is pork or beef that is stuffed into a hot dog, the meat trimmings are carefully selected just like the meat you buy in your grocer's coolers.

    Most recipes for hot dogs combine together a tasty blend of favorite meats (pork, beef, chicken, or turkey), meat fat, a cereal filler which could be either bread crumbs, flour, or oatmeal, a little bit of egg white, and a mouth-watering array of herbs and seasonings including garlic, pepper, ground mustard, nutmeg, salt, and onion.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=edvEceUi_Rw

    watch this if you want

  • 1 decade ago

    mechanically separated meat in pork casing.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If you ever want to enjoy hot dogs again then dont read the other answers!

  • 1 decade ago

    all the animals organs

  • 1 decade ago

    gah.. hotdogs?.. i would'nt want to know.. it may put me off them..

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