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The title says it all, really. Slightly elastic hot dog casings, filled with uncooked hot dog paste stuff (so it's still malleable), that you can twist and shape like those tubular balloons they use for balloon animals.
Once twisted into desired shape, you cook and serve them.
Casings of various
color are an option, provided the idea of a green hot dog doesn't put you off your lunch.
Someone's done it.
http://motleyfood.t...com/post/8652492370
[MechE, Sep 27 2012]
And worse...
http://www.geekolog...3/meat-nativity.jpg
[Phrontistery, Sep 28 2012]
[link]
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I like it, but there are no buns to fit! [+] |
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// Slightly elastic hot dog casings // |
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// Casings of various color are an option // |
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There exist a variety of hot dog that feature a particularly
resilient bright red casing; locally they are known as 'red
snappers'. I'm sure they can be found in many regions, but
I've never encountered the level of enthusiasm for them as
exhibited by Mainers, which leads us to regard them as a
local delicacy (which should tell you a bit about Maine
cuisine). |
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These might be just the thing with which to start your
experiment in culinary calisthenics. |
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The casing material will be ineatable or insufficiently
tough for shaping. |
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I dread to think as to which end of the intended animal of choice you would begin to squirt the mustard. |
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Next time my wife and I make sausages I'm doing this and posting pictures.
Don't even try to stop me. |
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Normal hotdog casings would be to soft, but link sausage casings (which are normally twisted to form the links) should be able to stand up to this easily enough. Obviously they'd have to be less than completely full to start, to allow for the filling to be pushed out of the way by the twisting. |
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Nice find. [MechE]
...won't stop me though. |
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And you lot have the unmitigated gall to
openly speculate why no other intelligent
species in the Galaxy has chosen to make
contact with you … |
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When you were at school, do you remember
the weird kid with no friends who used to
pull the wings off insects for amusement? Go
look in a mirror … |
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//Normal hotdog casings would be to soft, but link sausage
casings (which are normally twisted to form the links) should
be able to stand up to this easily enough.// |
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Hot dogs are link sausages (hence the alternate term “links”).
They're formed into links before they're cooked, and are hung
on racks as they pass through an oven. After cooking, the
casing is stripped off before they're packaged. |
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You could conceivably twist them into any shape, but once the
case is removed the hot dog doggy would fall apart. What you
need is a sausage that is eaten with the casing, such as a
“natural-casing” hot dog. |
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Ah, didn't realize they were de-cased, thought they
were just a very light one. |
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// such as a “natural-casing” hot dog. // |
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Such as the aforementioned Red Snapper, which has an all
natural casing (the bright red dye is made from beets)
reknowned far and wide for its resilience. I'm told they
make excellent bass bait. |
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//And you lot have the unmitigated gall to openly speculate why no other intelligent species in the Galaxy has chosen to make contact with you … |
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When you were at school, do you remember the weird kid with no friends who used to pull the wings off insects for amusement? Go look in a mirror …// |
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Could it be that every intelligent species is herbivore? I have my doubts. |
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I 'do' remember the wing-pulling-weird-friendless kid now that you mention him. Friend of my brothers he was... used to like spinning gophers around by the snare til their heads popped off.
No mirror would show me that kid... but I do wonder how he's doing every once in a while.
Poor bastard.
If I ever see him again I'll tell him you asked about him. |
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He probably ended up running for Congress
… |
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