8 Hot Dogs That Use the Highest Quality Ingredients

They're hot dogs, that bar is set pretty low

I love hot dogs! I’ve been enjoying Hebrew National Knockwurst on potato buns lately, with sauerkraut.

I can highly recommend Vienna Beef brand as well.

R2 my stepdad got us into Hebrew National when we were kids. My mom always bought Nathan’s though.

I prefer either Nathan's or Hebrew National. Nothing else will do.

No, Sabrett?

They are shitty ultra-processed food, all the good stuff that goes into them are just pointless.

R7- They are delicious, shitty ultra-processed food. Fify. 😁

Isn’t Sabrett’s what the NYC hot dog vendors use?

Those are delicious.

That's like listing the highest-quality cigarettes or marshmellows. Does it matter?

Hot dogs are essential. I love them at the ball park and for a quick lunch in the big city (NYC, Chicago, Toronto). I only buy all beef for the bbq.

I like Applegate's brand too. Glad to see it tops the list...R7 doesn't even wrinkle the sheets when he fucks.

Who doesn’t eat hot dogs?

Foreigner cunts?

I buy Sabrett, Nathans or Hebrew National.

I like Polish sausage on a bun as well, a little blackened at the edges.

I like hot dogs from a vendor smothered in assorted veggies, but that's about the only way I'll eat them

Five Guys has a surprisingly good dog. They split it and grill it.

The word, r16, is vegetables.

Vegetables.

My family makes fun of me because I purchase Nathan's or Hebrew National for my dog once or twice a year, as a special treat.

That seems pretty low stakes, r19.

Are you Palestinian or something?

I always figured Hebrew National was better than most. No trayf, right?

r16 Doesn't smothering the vendor make you lose your appetite?

Which ones ‘plumped when you cook ‘em’? 🎶

I'm a Hebrew National gurl as well

[quote] all the good stuff that goes into them are just pointless

Oh, dear.

"marshmellows"

Oh, dear!

I prefer sausage on a bun. Usually a spicy Italian.

Applegate farms "Great Organic Uncured Beef Hot Dog" rocks! Absolutely delicious. Hebrew National is great too!

Nathan's with mustard and onion on a toasted bun and a side of tater tots. God's perfect meal.

R28 Agreed. Applegate Farms Organic are the best in the industry. Yes they cost more but the ingredients make it worth it. I don't eat meat, but I do buy them for friends and relatives when I have cookouts.

I love me a good toe, eyeball, intestines and bladder hot dog!

R31 sounds limited or from darkest Africa.

Applegate Farms Organic might be good but they don't have a Wienermobile.

Oooo, look at me! I’m Applegate Farms and I’m organic but I don’t have my own transportation but I also can’t host because I’m a bunch of made up healthy bullshit!

Tee-hee!

Applegate has a skateboard.

DAS RITE.

Excalate.

Homer said it best.

Natural casing hot dogs have a superior snap.

Superdawg in Chicago, cunts!!

Michael Stern says yes!

I've been buying Nathan's for years but the last purchase was very disappointing. I always boil them and although the texture was not like the restaurant snappiness, it was decent. When I bit into it this last time, they were so mushy and spongy and salty. I looked at the package to see if it said "new recipe!" or something. I did notice that the franks are advertised as "skinless". No wonder. That outer skin made Nathan's so different from other national brands.

I like Eckrich Jalapeño Cheddar Sausages.

Those look intriguing, r41.

Never tried that brand, but I think I’ll pick some up.

Or get vegan ones. They are made from plant-based pigs assholes.

Why would they use a picture of different hot dogs where none of those brands even made the list?

J-School isn’t sending their best!

I find most hot dogs too tiny. It is all bun when you eat them.

I prefer using the Hebrew National quarter-pounders.

Although I hate paying for the "Kosher" con.

Its a satisfying treat once in a while

R46 that’s why they sell BUN LENGTH.

R47 it’s food. Not cookies.

Junk food, literally

My favorite hot dogs are made by Kowalski but I don't think they sell them outside Michigan. Great with or without the casing.

R49 is a crypto-soy-bean industry shill.

We see you, Miss Thing.

R51 only it’s all bullshit.

I think the nicer market near me sells Kowalski Polish sausage. I’ll have to try some.

"The word, [R16], is vegetables.

Vegetables."

"[R16] Doesn't smothering the vendor make you lose your appetite? "

This is why you two were always picked on as kids and why the big kids smashed your hot dogs in your face 😠

Eh, I considered it foreplay, r54.

^ I'm sure 🙄

Processed meat = cancer. I think of hot dogs as the cigarette of foods.

[quote]Processed meat = cancer.

Poorly processed meat.

Italians eat lots of sausage, cured meats. They are a diet staple as they are in other countries as well. Yet Italy has one of the highest longevity rates in the West.

Where is the Darfur Orphan on this thread?

R58 I like sausage (Polish and Italian) but not hot dogs. A good butcher makes sausage just like your grandma used to make, with no additives.

Like my new car?

That is so cool.

We use only the really GOOD cow anuses in ours!

Can you imagine trying to maneuver that fucking thing?

And it wouldn’t help with people stopping to gawk, or pointing fire hoses of mustard at it.

I would feel like Billy Badass driving that thing.

"Can you imagine trying to maneuver that fucking thing? "

Yeah, well, don't try to park it in the garage

SEE?!? SEE?!?

Welcome to DL, Upton Sinclair.

I'm surprised Gilbert's didn't make the cut. I only buy them but once or twice a year, but The Froman is the best I've had. I believe they've changed the name of their uncured all-beef franks due to a lawsuit, but they're the same regardless. They're naturally cured, so any cancer risk should be diminished, and they taste like actual hot dogs... surprise, surprise, as many of these uncured sausages do NOT.

Abe Froman was the "Sausage King", mentioned in the film [italic] Ferris Bueller's Day Off [/italic]. I think he WAS an actual person now, after the abrupt name change!

When I can't find them, I buy David Berg's, or Vienna Beef. All three brands have the same flavour profile to me, and that's what I simply prefer.

I've also had Poisoned Dragon's fave, and those are quite good as well, if you like a Jalapeño kick.

I too love Kowalski R50. I love the snap. I also love their stadium kielbasa. I used to eat them at Tiger Stadium back in the day. I considered ordering their hotdogs online but you have to buy six packages in a time. And I’m sure they charge an arm and a leg for shipping!

I also love Rinaldi‘s hot Italian sausage on a bun. Too bad you can’t find it on the West Coast.

I like a big Kowalski myself! Thanks for reminding me. I forgot to mention them. Bobak's is good as well, a local Chicagoland brand. Here is the link for Gilbert's, which I also forgot to include.

Kowalski's are available in Chicago, as well as North Western Indiana, R50.

Read The Jungle.

Then, I will suggest to you Beyond Sausage (plant based).

R73 With respect, any work by Upton Sinclair is best left out a discussion of the finest cured and processed meats! I'll carry on with my hot dog consumption regardless. I love hot dogs with Chili, and any occasion there is a cook-out. I also love a Kirkland hot dog on my way out of Costco. Heavy onion, relish, and mustard, please!

R57 I enjoy cigarettes as well, in moderation of course. (especially when I swim to Scotland)

R73, you need to go on.

If I buy hot dogs, I go with Hebrew National all beef dogs.

I hate beef hot dogs. And chicken and turkey dogs taste like nothing. And plant based meat? Why?! If you want to eat plants, eat plants!

What ever happened to all pork dogs? The few brands at the store that have any pork at all are all mixed with something else, usually chicken or turkey. If you want just pork you have to get sausage.

R78 I believe there really was never a 100% pork frankfurter, or hot dog, from the Austriann or German tradition anyhow. Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but most of the famous makers were eithef Austrian or German Jews, even when their product was not sold as "Kosher-All Beef", as in the case of the Gienna Beef family's founders in the USA.

Other sausages derived from pork, were originally given a variety of different names.

I liked hot dogs until I saw they have at least 22 grams if fat each. 22 grams! Maybe just one for Labor Day.

What's the deal with no ketchup? I am 60 and have always liked them with, sparingly, ketchup, mustard and relish. This thread is making me hungry.

^ sorry for the typos, several which I had corrected for... Vienna Beef, hopefully you can make sense of that.

I like the Taste of Hebrew Nation but there is always a yellowish orange grease that comes off of them when you put one in the microwave. That's why I prefer Vienna Beef hot dogs.

R82 I really wish Vienna Beef made an uncured variety. I'm not keen on Hebrew National either. Rather, I think it's the worst of the all-beef Kosher Franks.

[quote]R69: I've also had Poisoned Dragon's fave, and those are quite good as well, if you like a Jalapeño kick.

There is also a version without the jalapeños, if you'd rather.

R84 Thanks, now I must try those as well! Reminds me that I have a smoked and encased meat obsession.

Hmm...

I wonder which one is more poisonous- a hot dog ( it certainly made Patty Duke lose control) or a submarine sandwich with the salami ham etc

R96 Thanks, I enjoyed an Italian sub for my dinner last night. (Mortadella, Ham, Salami, and Pepperoni) I know the cured meats are associated with X, but I never did consider my sandwich POISONOUS until now. Thanks a lot!

^R86 don't have my reading glasses on

r61 I would rather a weiner spend the night in me than me in it.

I am not saying that processed food is good. It's awful for you, I'm sure. But, I think we're going to learn at some point in the not too distant future that all of this organic, natural ingredients, no preservatives stuff has been a total scam.

If you want healthy meat, you're going to have to start buying it directly from farms, yourself.

there is no "quality" in hotdogs. it's all shit.

R82 please do not microwave hotdogs! It makes the hot dog gods cry!

It is not just the fat, it is the high sodium that makes this a once in a while treat. Even low sodium franks are obscenely high in sodium. If I am at a family cookout, I can't resist a grilled frank with mustard, never ketchup. I like it almost burned and crispy.

Whoever recommended Applegate, I am soooooo fucking pissed!

I had a taste for a hotdogs w/sauerkraut, onions and yellow mustard. Remembered this thread and re-read it.

DoorDashed Applegate and Nathan's, plus buns. Cooked one of each.

The Nathan's was fantastic. The Applegate's, not so much. It actually tasted spoiled. Thinking it could be just part of it, I ventured another bite fron the opposite end. Even worse.

And the fucking things cost me $9.99 for EIGHT shitty-tasting wieners that I have to put in the trash.

I sooooo fucking hate when this happens, and I hate this extreme capitalism that makes companies change a good recipe for some bullshit that always translates to "We fucked with this wonderful recipe to squeeze out more $$$$$ while keeping the same name."

Was already having a bad day; this makes it worse.

R19 Your dog eats its own vomit.

Hebrew National hot dogs are the best. And they hold up well over an open flame.