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vtwin@cox.net:

--- Quote from: IanB on March 18, 2019, 05:55:13 pm ---Hot dogs in the UK are in the category of "last resort food item, stored in the pantry in case of emergencies". Thus, they come canned in brine, ready to heat and serve. To prepare them you tip them into a pan and simmer them in their brine until they are hot. Nobody eats them unless real sausages are not available.

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Sounds like another British delicacy, like Branston Pickle and Marmite. I'm surprised my wife doesn't have them in the cupboard.

IanB:

--- Quote from: NivagSwerdna on March 18, 2019, 11:00:21 am ---That was a great video but I am a bit skeptical as to the definition of "cooked", instead they seemed to be simply electrocuted.  I'm guessing that the 'hot dogs' were at least partially cooked beforehand if not it is just a machine designed to promote food poisoning.
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That's one of the cultural differences between the UK and the USA. In the USA all sausages I have seen are pre-cooked and just need heating. In the UK all sausages are made from raw meat and need thorough cooking before eating.

(Clive's hot dogs were canned and as with all canned goods are cooked and safe to eat right out of the can.)

CatalinaWOW:
Fair warning.  In the US sausages sold in supermarkets and the like are almost always precooked.  Not so for products sold in butcher shops and other places where you might look for real food.

Your British hot dogs sound much like what is marketed in the US as Vienna sausage.  Nasty, tiny canned sausages suitable only for preventing starvation.  Or if your dog isn't very discerning to disguise the medicines you are wanting him to take.

vk6zgo:
In Australia, what is used in the classic hotdog are/were "frankfurts" or "saveloys" .(The latter is slightly different, & the name seems to have fallen out of use)
They are "pre-cooked", to the extent that they are safe to eat "straight out of the shop".

In use, they are usually boiled, & slapped into a roll with toppings to the customer's choice.

When I was a kid, at Agricultural Shows (local  & State Fairs in US speak), they were boiled "en masse" in what we used to call "coppers" (the large copper tub in which clothes were boiled back in the day).
These were becoming obsolete, but conveniently many had been set up with a heating fire in portable form, & were quickly repurposed by the hot dog vendors.

You could smell the cooking "dogs" all across the Showground.
I don't know what effect all that copper residue had on my generation, but we still seem to be around in droves! ;D

Normal sausages are always sold raw --- Vienna sausages are cooked, or somehow made safe for immediate eating.

Tinned sausages are available, but like tinned anything, are a reasonable snack, but that's it

In recent years, traditional "hot dogs" have come under strong challenge from  the "sausage sizzle", where normal sausages are cooked on a grill or hot plate, & stuffed into a roll in the usual fashion.

helius:

--- Quote from: BravoV on March 18, 2019, 10:53:42 am ---The electrodes look like galvanized zinc, perfectly safe for human I guess as its used in food container too.

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Zinc is not safe for cooking use as its salts are toxic. People have been killed by cooking with galvanized steel buckets.
Food containers are steel plated with tin. Beverage cans are made of aluminum with an epoxy coating.

The metal prongs in this do look like zinc, but may be an alloy such as Zamac or an aluminum alloy. There is probably not much transfer of metal to the food since the hot dogs are not very acidic.

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