Hot Dog Jerky

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Transform cheap hotdogs into a dried delicacy with a street value of a dollar an ounce.

Step 1 Digitize Your Dogs

Get the cheapest hotdogs you can find.
Leftovers from a tractor pull or pro wrestling show would be perfect.
We're going to scientifically determine the best thickness using a binary divide- and-conquer strategy.
That means we divide a hotdog by two, then by two again, thus creating two bit dogs.

A Poem; Ode to a Doomed Dog:

Time is wasting
We're all slowly dying
Let's get to slicing
and get those hot dogs drying
While the sun is still shining

Comments

[Foaly7]

What would the people reading this with the worst bad luck in the world do to cover the 'dogs from the destructive divebombings of the avian world populace?

[Lokisgodhi]

The leaving them out in the sun method might be your problem here.

The recipes I've always seen for jerky have been to put the meat in an oven at the lowest temp possible, like 140-160 degrees, for 8-12 hours with the oven door ajar and dehydrate them that way. 

[MakerBreaker]

ill stick with my good old sote bought beef jerky....yum slim jims

[whiteoakart]

Maybe you could use the leftovers for greasing door hinges?

[JellyWoo]

woudn't bugs come and attack the hot dogs that are drying?

[whiteoakart]

bugs won't eat that stuff.

[t3rr18l3one]

So disgusting I just had to read it!!

[vandal1138]

Lettuce was a nice touch... Also try old soggy carpet samples, it compliments the oily cardboard essence with a nice fibrous pudding effect.

[vandal1138]

And suprisingly enough, if you microwave a slimjim it tastes (and smells) like a fried bologna sandwich.

[Yerboogieman]

How would i make a solar food dehydrator? Mostly i need help the aluminum foil, shiny side out?

[ewilhelm]

Tim totally misquoted me! Real quote: "It tastes like oily cardboard!" I managed to swallow some, but only because it was after a hard day of kitesurfing and I was starving.

[Der Bradly]

LOL

[JellyWoo]

that is really cool! must taste good.

[baneat]

Actually a very witty and funny instructable.

[potatomansoup]

I found this Instructable horrifying, funny yet intriguing, maybe my wife will let me try it...then again...

[Mikey D]

OK, I know this was just a joke but we're trying it! We're going to use the dehydrator, but we're trying it!

[seasprout]

I actually loved it. It was probably the seasoning I used. I used fat-free turkey dogs soaked in thai peanut curry sauce overnight, these are extremely delicious and great for snacks!

[TimAnderson]

What brand of hotdogs did you use? The fat-free-ness must be important. There was way too much fat left in mine when they were dry.

[seasprout]

Pretty sure they were Oscar Meyer Fat Free turkey dogs :)

[Lftndbt]

I was hoping to find a good instructable on making jerky... But i'm sorry that's putrid! LoL! Congrats on being brave enough to try it. though!

[static]

Not a Hot Dogs, not Jerky. This should be in the at your risk category, it definitely isn't food. The only good thing I got by opening up this ibnstructable was being directed to http://www.duckdaotsu.org/valor.html

[static]

Right _{tell us another big one.}

[cmcguire.firstdigital.com]

On a serious note. I bought 22 of those old Ronco Food dehydrators off ebay for $150. I am making a killing selling hot dog jerky to gas stations and upper-class restaurants.

For info on how you can buy my jerky go to http://www.bigjerkymanlover.com/hotdogsinmytumtum.html

[harmonious1]

Dogs love em, for what its worth.

[camscam]

you sold this to WHO exactly for a dollare an ounce?!?

[Illidan]

how did it turn out?

[Wade Tarzia]

Aw, too bad. I never wavered in my belief that the hot dog is the most perfect food. Fry it, boil it, nuke it, eat it from the fridge -- it asks for nothing specific. Dice it up into a can of baked beans, eat on a bun, spear over a fire, it adapts to all environments. Too bad it is taboo food for me now (I make do unsatisfied on tofu hot dogs -- they are at least a vehicle for the relish and mustard) unless I am at somebody's barbecue, and then I MUST eat hotdogs so that I avoid insulting the universal rules of the host/ess. I had high hopes that sun dried dogs would be scintillating, purifed, betterified in the California sun, which is said to be the best onm Earth. Sigh.....

[Crash2108]

Hmmm.., extruded meat paste..

[Nate53085]

Yeah, its been a while since this was posted. How did it turn out?

[nospleen]

It turned out like hotdogs left in the sun for a week....

[nospleen]

That's exactly right. It tasted suprisingly similar to a slimjim.

[ewilhelm]

Tim totally misquoted me! Real quote: "It tastes like oily cardboard!"

[hivoltage]

dude hotdogs sitting in the sun for a week would have so many flies on it. unless there was some glass. would probably take only a few days with the weather here in southern california lately

[DanAdamKOF]

So... how did this turn out?

[meddler]

People have ideas, not everyone has the style, some of you vetren posters do. It makes me wonder if it would be a waste of time to post anything considering the mean comments i see first time posters get. Constructive advice should be the norm not snotty, pissy comments

[TimAnderson]

Do it, put it up, and people who like it will find it. You'll get invitations to visit people all over the world. Don't let a few hecklers bug you. At least they care. That "heckler" demographic may someday turn into a "fanatically loyal" demographic. History is full of posthumously appreciated masterpieces made by people who quit when they were criticized. They should have persisted. The only way to make a masterpiece is to make a hundred crapperpieces and hope a few are good.

[atomicpossum]

So almost an entire step is just a silly political statement? Talk about 'jerking your weenie.'

[trebuchet03]

I guess its about time someone else started jerking to at least address the cock fight... how many chickens must turn the other 'gobbler'? :P And there's nothing silly about a political statement... the idea, maybe, but the statement - no. To the Americans -- being able to simply make that statement is what you should be pushing for, if you cast DOWN on anyone making a "silly political statement" - well, that's just unamerican of you. To others -- sorry, under new management. comming soon: "Fortress America" where the motto is: "Tired and Hungry? Go to Turkey" As for the dogs.... Points for uniqueness.... Minus points for umm, the not to pleasing sounding concept :P

[atomicpossum]

Nope. To pause from talk of anything as ridiculous as sun-drying hotdogs for any political statement makes it, by definition, silly, and in this case, extraneous, disconnected, and even gratuitous, particularly when it is a single line of relevant content padded with several paragraphs of unrelated diatribe. There's already enough low-quality instructables on this site-- padding them with completely unrelated material that is nowhere within the scope of the site only dilutes the value of it even further.

[trebuchet03]

silly, by definition.... # cockamamie: ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" -- okay, maybe the hotodog idea is foolish, but that's besides the point # airheaded: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" -- I don't see what is not serious # pathetic: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett -- no scorn here # a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly" -- not a child # punch-drunk: dazed from or as if from repeated blows; "knocked silly by the impact"; "slaphappy with exhaustion" -- this could be caused by posts, otherwise - nope so no, not silly - unless Princeton's dictionary is not good enough for ya :P extraneous -- absolutely, luckily this is not a term paper disconnected -- following government, politics etc. requires a lot of thinking and being somehow connected to what's coming out gratuitous -- I can see his/a cause, so nope diatribe -- yep, welcome to politics (from the latin meaning many bloodsucking creatures :P) But I agree, there's a lot of low quality instructables in addition to a lot of complainers that don't post content :/ So, if you don't like it - flag it, but I think Mr. Anderson is personal friends with the admin...