hotdog recipes

Get you two aluminum nails (sometimes called "baking nails" and available in kitchen-gadgets stores...meant for use when baking potatoes so they don't blow up in the oven).

Get you a piece of wood about 3/4" thick and 2" wide and 2" longer than whatever hot dogs you eat. A chunk of baseboard works fine.

Measure the length of one of your hot dogs. Subtract one inch. Make centered marks on your piece of wood that distance (length minus one inch) apart. Pound one nail into each mark. Stop just before the nail head sits flat on the wood.

Get you a length of lamp cord with a regular household electric plug on one end. Steal the line cord from an existing lamp or appliance for bonus redneck points. Strip 1/2" insulation from the end of each of the two wires. Loop one stripped wire end around each nail and then finish pounding the nails so the wires are firmly trapped between the nail head and the wood.

Get you a hot dog from the package. Frozen's no good, it's gotta be thawed. Push it onto the pointy ends of the nails. Set your hot dog roaster (did you know that's what you built? You do now!) on the counter or table, hot dog side up/wire side down.

Plug it in. Shortly the hot dog will begin to cook, all by itself, right before your very eyes. When it is done, unplug the cooker (this is an important step; don't skip it) and remove the hot dog from the nails.

If you use steel nails instead of aluminum, your hot dog will taste electrocuted…gross!

I am told this type of a hot dog cooker will cause a pickle to glow, but I never tried mine with a pickle.

Or if all this is too much work, make you some Wiener Wings:

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