People have been left gobsmacked after learning how hotdogs are made – with some saying they’ll never eat them again, while other believe the process ‘isn’t that bad’
After a cold and wet winter, most Brits can’t wait for spring to bring some warmth to their day. With the warm weather comes outdoor activities, sunbathing and BBQs, but after watching a video on how hotdogs are made, many have vowed to never eat the BBQ staple again.
YouTube channel How It’s Made has shared a video explaining how hotdogs make it onto supermarket shelves – but it seems the process has proven too much for some. The five-minute clip shows exactly what goes into making sausages.
It says: “The cuts they start with are called trimmings – pieces of meat left over from cutting steaks or pork chops. The trimmings are ground the same way butchers chop up hamburger meat by pushing the cuts through grated metal plates.”
From there, processed chicken trimmings are added to the ground meat followed by food starch, salt, and other flavourings. He adds: “Water is sprayed into the mix and everything is blended together in a big vat. Corn syrup adds a dash of sweetness.”
Even more water is added to the mixture to make the hotdogs ‘juicier’ before they’re put into another machine to puree the meat batter. To create the sausage shape, rolls of cellulose tubing are loaded into the suffering machine so the mixture can sit inside them.
He said: “It takes just 35 seconds to make enough hotdogs to span a football field, twice. The hotdogs are then moved into another machine before making their way through a “liquid smoke shower” to add flavour to them as they bake in an oven.
“Hot out of the oven, they’re drenched in cold, salty water to chill them in preparation for packaging,” he added. Finally, the hotdogs make their way onto a conveyer belt so “steamy air” can blow the cellulose tubing off the hotdogs before they’re tinned up for stores.
Commenting on the process, one shocked user said: “I haven’t had a hotdog in about 10 years thanks to this show.” Another user added: “Showed this to my class. I don’t regret it.” A third user said: “I was like this is actually not that bad until the corn syrup.”
But not everyone was put off by the process, with another adding: “People say you’ll never eat it if you see how hotdogs are made. This is actually better than I thought it would be.” One user agreed: “This is a lot more tame than what I imagined. I’m also still gonna keep eating hotdogs.” A final user said: “Not only will I continue to eat hot dogs, I’m eating one while watching this.”