How Hot Dogs Are Made - Short (Documentary) - video Dailymotion

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00:00Hot dogs are an all-American fare, but most likely it was German sausage makers who first

00:06came up with the idea.

00:08In fact, there are reports of German immigrants selling them from push carts in New York's

00:12Bowery as far back as the 1860s.

00:15A century and a half later, hot dogs are still the number one treat on the street.

00:26Traditional hot dogs are made from a mix of pork, beef, and chicken.

00:32The cuts they start with are called trimmings, pieces of meat left over from cutting steaks

00:36or pork chops.

00:44The trimmings are ground the same way butchers chop up hamburger meat, by pushing the cuts

00:49through grated metal plates.

01:01Processed chicken trimmings are added to the ground meat, followed by food starch, salt,

01:08and other flavorings.

01:11These flavorings vary depending on where the hot dogs are to be sold, because people in

01:16different regions have different tastes.

01:25Water is sprayed into the mix and everything is blended together in a big vat.

01:36Chicken syrup adds a dash of sweetness.

01:48The addition of even more water helps to disperse the ingredients and make the hot dogs juicier.

01:54Another machine then purees the meat batter into a fine emulsion and vacuums out any air.

02:06Thin rolls of cellulose tubing are loaded into the stuffing machine.

02:13It pumps the meat puree into these casings, twisting it every five and a quarter inches,

02:18the length of one hot dog.

02:20It takes just 35 seconds to make a chain of hot dogs that would span a soccer field twice.

02:33Three of those hot dog chains are linked together to make an even longer string, and they're

02:37loaded several at a time into another machine, which drapes the hot dogs onto moving racks.

02:43The process is carefully timed so that a twist always lands on the bar.

02:52The racks shunt the hot dogs through a liquid smoke shower, then into an oven with several

02:56cooking zones.

02:58The liquid smoke seeps through the casing and adds flavor to the dogs as they bake.

03:08Hot out of the oven, these franks are drenched in cold, salty water to chill them in preparation

03:13for packaging.

03:20The hot dogs then file down to an unloading zone.

03:25Here a machine pulls them off the bars onto a conveyor.

03:33Then the hot dogs slide off the conveyor into metal containers.

03:37If you've been wondering about those black stripes on the casings, all is about to be

03:41revealed.

03:46The stripe is a marker attached to the casing.

03:48The absence of a black stripe means the hot dog is cooked and ready for packaging.

03:59Inside the peeler machine, a tiny knife slits each casing along the top.

04:04Then steamy air blows the casings right off the dogs.

04:10This machine peels 700 hot dogs a minute.

04:19An inspector makes sure the casing has been completely removed and that there are no defects

04:24in the dogs.

04:25Then it's into a device that looks like a plastic bicycle chain.

04:29The sprockets position the hot dogs for packaging.

04:36This factory manufactures an incredible 300,000 hot dogs an hour.

04:41That's close to 2.5 million per shift.

04:45They really do churn them out like sausages.

04:49Fire up the grill and a mouth-watering meal is just minutes away.

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