How To Boil Hot Dogs

Hot dog cut ends in buns on blue plate with blurred background

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Make Your Own Steaming Hot, Rich, Flavorful and Homemade on a Perfectly Toasted Bun When you know the secret to Perfectly Cooked How To Boil Hot Dogs!

Prep Time2

Cook Time5

Total Time7

Course: main

Cuisine: American

Keyword: how to boil a hot dog, boiled hot dogs

Servings: servings

Calories: 130kcal

Author: Wendi Spraker

Ingredients

1 Quart of Water
½ teaspoon Salt
1-8 Hot Dogs

Instructions

our the water into a medium sized sauce pan and set the heat on medium high.
Add the salt to the water.
Place the hot dogs in the water.
Continue heating on medium high until water begins to boil. Cut the heat back slightly so that pan won’t boil over. Simmer like this for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and drain and serve.

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Notes

General Information:

Hot Dogs are fully cooked when you purchase them, so boiling is really just heating them up.
Make sure to give guests plenty of options for toppings.
Toast the buns with butter! You won’t be sorry!

TURNING UP THE FLAVOR:

The recipe above is the BASIC hot dog recipe.

If you REALLY want to add flavor choose one of the following:

Add a bouillon cube to the cooking water at the start (any flavor works).
Cook the hot dogs in a chicken, beef or vegetable stock!
Cut the water by ½ (2 Cups) and add a can of beef consume soup to the water, let the hot dogs boil in that soup.
Add a beer, ½ stick of butter, 1 tbs of hot sauce, 1 teaspoon of onion powder and 1 teaspoon of garlic powder to 2 cups of water and boil the hot dogs in that mixture.

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