What's in hotdogs?!
What's in hotdogs?
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A lot of stuff you may not want to know, but they taste sooo good!
sausage made of lots of byproducts
trust me you don't want to know...but always buy the better named brands and read the labels.
Old wives tale about erythorbate and worms...
"So yeah, some food ingredients are made from bugs and such. But erythorbate isn't one of them. The rumor about erythorbate being a euphemism for earthworms has been around for awhile, and it isn't true. "
i always pick brands that have beef/port/chicken listed first as an ingredient.
Lots of grossness in a tube.
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.
Once these ingredients are grinded together, the stuffing is squeezed into sausage casings. Many of the hot dogs sold in stores are enclosed in synthetic cellulose casings, but most home-made hot dogs are made out of natural animal intestines.
Following the stuffing process is the pre-cooking cycle in which the hot dog links are tossed into boiling water for approximately 15 minutes. Finally, the dogs are packaged, loaded on delivery trucks, and sent off to food markets.
Hope this helped.
my neighbor worked at a meat packing plant and he told me you would never eat a hotdog again if you could see them being made. For years, I didnt eat them. Then I said f*--k it, there's poison in the air, water, food, whats a little questionable body parts, and Ive been scarfing them down ever since.
I only use Hebrew National 100% beef.
the better question is whats not in hotdogs
its basically the leftovers of other meats unless you get a good brand that is like all beef
I've heard it's pig stuffed into it's own intestine. My mom buys special hot dogs though, so it's not nasty. I still cringe when I eat them...