Boiling weiners

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hot dogs are fully cooked when you buy them - you can safely eat them cold, right out of the fridge...

so all you're doing is warming them - 10-15 minutes at a gentle simmer is enough.
 
You can heat them in a crockpot without added liquid.

A great way to host a group on a budget.

 
This thread reminds me of a sweet memory from when I was about 14-years-old. My younger brother (5 years younger) LOVED weiners/hot dogs.

We were often babysat by a wonderful lady named Ruby Morgan and my brother, Kevin, loved her to pieces and, at that age, claimed Ruby made the best boiled wieners.

What she did was to put the dogs into a saucepan of water and boil the bejeepers out of them until they split.

Now, in his late 60s, he still claims Ruby's wieners were the best!
 
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It reminds me of my father boiling inexpensive Pilgrim’s Pride or Choice hotdogs until the water in the saucepan was as red as the hotdog!

I also remember boiled hotdogs being slipped into a thermos bottle and topped with the hot liquid to keep them warm until lunch time.
 
If I'm just heating one or two, I'll probably do it in the microwave. If there are more, I might heat them in the toaster oven or on a frying pan. It depends on how many and what else is cooking.
 
Back in the day, I used to prefer boiling.
Now, the vegan ones ( most are kinda poor) dont cook the same way, so either pan fry or grill.
When I did boil, just enough to get them hot, 5 - 10 minutes at most.
On the grill and pan, just enough to brown/ cook all sides
 
Just in case you're worried … no wiener recalls on recent purchases.

Not necessary but you can put them on sticks and boil with sticks up. Afterward pick up stick and dunk in any condiment. I'm Sure you can use the microwave with sticks too.
 
We never boil. We always fry or grill.
A friend of mine from NJ told me the Sabrett dogs should always be boiled.
 
The street vendors in NYC boil their dogs and store them in hot water in the cart. I prefer mine grilled, but I find airfried acceptable. As a last resort, I will nuke them for exactly 1 minute and 10 seconds, put them in the bun and add the condiments, then 10 more seconds in the microwave to soften up the bun. My condiments of choice are mustard (horsheradish, spicy brown, or screaming yellow), and either sweet pickle relish or Ted's Hot Dog Sauce. No kraut and, for Buddah's sake, no ketchup! Save the ketchup for the fries. When I travelled for work, if I was going through Chicago I would just HAVE to hunt down the Chicago hot dog vendor.
 
I don't eat a lot of hot dogs so I keep my supply in the freezer. I take an individually wrapped HD bun from the freezer and nuke it until it's soft and warm then I nuke to dog. While the dog is cooking I dress the bun with brown mustard and sauerkraut then add the dog and enjoy. I'd prefer to cook the dog and toast the bun in my grill but there is only so much time I'm willing to invest in lunch.
 
One of my favorite ways to serve hot dogs is German/Mexican fusion (wieners and beans). Put the hot dogs in an oven safe corningware or Pyrex dish with a lid, open a can of beans in some kind of sauce, pour some of the sauce into the dish, drop in a few hot dogs, pour in the rest of the beans, cover and heat it in a 350o oven for 30 to 45 minutes, and serve with or without buns and condiments, as desired.
 
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