Homemade Hot-Dogs

[sacandagabrewing]

As the title said, I wanted to try to make some homemade hot dogs. I was trying to figure out what meats to use to grind up. Would you guys suggest doing something lean like shank/sirloin and then cut it with beef fat or just go with good ol' chuck that is already at 80/20? Appreciate the help!

 

[passedpawn]

The best dogs I made by grinding up a bottom round roast and adding some fat (I had pork fat). I believe I went with a ratio of 1# lean to 3/4# fat (I have a lot of notes, but they are sort of jumbled). I emulsified in a large food processor, and I added a binder to get a nice solid consistency after emulsification, but not sure that's necessary. I prefer caseless hot dogs, so you'll see in the link below that I used cellulose casings, smoked, then removed the casings.

Here's some info I posted previously:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/homemade-hot-dogs-caseless.656808/

 

[passedpawn]

Nevermind, here's the recipe I used. And yes, it sure looks like you could just use that 80/20 beef

https://meatgistics.waltonsinc.com/topic/180/how-to-make-homemade-hot-dogs-recipe