Recipe: Hot dogs on a stick

[Charles Watts]

1. Purchase package of hot dogs (any variety will do, although I like Oscar Meyer)

2. Cut a green stick (ok, ok, you environmentalist types use one of those long metal forks)

3. Sharpen stick with knife. (careful not to cut yourself with knife or poke yourself in the eye with the newly sharpened stick ... both of which have happened to me)

4. Start blazing campfire, just before dark (careful not to burn yourself).

5. Insert stick into hot dog (not the palm of your hand)(same warning applies if you are using one of the long metal forks)

6. Slowly roast hot dog over hot coals. (careful not to burn ... because a burnt hot dog could cause cancer or make one leg shorter than the other).

7. Test for doneness.

8. After hot dog cools, eat hot dog right off stick.

Yum.

(For an interesting twist on this recipe ... purchase pack of hot dog buns and steal some condiment packets from your local fast food place)(I don't do this, however. I'm a purist when it comes to hot dogs.)

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Ok, ok ... Pam doesn't condone, approve or for that matter, even purchase hot dogs for me to consume on any regular basis.

Her favorite camping meal involves broccoli, etc.

But if I whine enough ... Or manage to stay-on-her-good-side long enough .... she will occasionally ... and I do mean occasionally ... let me eat a hot dog over an open fire.

And boy, is it ever good.

[Steve L.]

Originally posted by Charles Watts@Nov 14 2005, 10:01 AM
Her favorite camping meal involves broccoli, etc.

Oog! Broccoli on a stick?!

It's a hunter/gatherer kind of thing. Run down the hot dog in the wild, spear it with a stick. Cook. Eat.

Women may be responsible for civilization, I personally don't doubt it for a moment, but they need guidance on food in the wild.

[Charles Watts]

>>run down hot dog in the wild ... spear with stick

Ha!

But Steve ... Pam would never let me run with a stick in my hand!

Hey, since you're obviously a hot-dog-on-stick man like me ... isn't it a bummer when your hot dog falls off your stick into the fire?

Do you ever fish it out and eat it any way?

I have. Isn't too bad as long as you get most of the ashes off.

[Steve L.]

I’m told we’ll all eat a pound of dirt before we die. If you lump in ashes and bits of grass I’m well into my second helping.

Hot dogs, the wily bratwurst (how else do you cook that tricky inside curve part if not on a stick?), marshmallows, bits and pieces of grilled vegetables (I accidentally ate something good for me. But it was part of a shish kabob so it probably canceled the food value).

[james kent]

Pilsbury sells a tube thing that you break and twist to open. you get a pastry in little squareswhich youcanadd relish and mustard then wrap around the weiner on the stick.heat till golden brown and enjoy. Have extra as there's never enough.

[Bill MacDermod]

Charles, you being the hotdog guru that you are, in your receipe do you stick the stick in the end of the hot dog or in the side like a "T"