I say; "No, but now I wonder what a log burger tastes like."
Stick meat in tray, put on cover, press down, and there you go. Here's an instructional video to go with it. The Ham Dogger is available at Taylor Gifts for $7.98. [via Coolest Gadgets]
@jkdrummer: That's true, for make hot dog-sized sausages, one at a time. Not that there's anything terribly wrong with that. This seems to be marketed as a way to use up extra ground meat/buns (with potential for funky fillings) instead of for making sausages with seasoned meat. I wonder how many people feel like they need a hot dog mold.
Somehow I came to think of the Swedish McDonald's who recently started to use chicken-meat that is halal. I came to think of this as sausage normally includes porkmeat that can never be halal since muslims don't eat pork what so ever.
Swedish McDonald's promises that the slaughter of chickens they need to make food is done following all Swedish laws and regulations. But in the "slaugthering act" there is someone approved of some kind of an islamic foundation who will attend and chant islamic verses when the poor chickens are put to death.
Well... I don't like it.
I don't believe in God, Allah or anything. I just wan't to eat my food and if any animals have died for it I want them to have been killed and have lived as "humanly" as possibly. I don't want the things I eat to have been blessed by Allah! Please respect my non-belief!
And I don't like that McD, as a company, uses religious staff (or uses suppliers that uses religious staff). What will happen if McD has to downsize it's staff? Will they fire that religious guy or someone in the kitchen?
If you are religious I think you can chant before you eat or you can go to some other place where the food is prepared in the way your religion allows. But leave McDonald's out of it!
So maybe it helps the meat hold together well. How about making your tuna roll or lobster roll that way? We New Englanders are fond of toasted exterior cut hot dog buns and will put just about anything in them, so why not hamburger?
@DenghisCon and dbcurrie, I was pulling for sex, drugs, rock and roll, and chicken fried steak. Perhaps you could post on some of these other topics Marcus..
Well, you can make fun of my posting... I don't mind. And I understand what you mean. But I wrote that comment because as I understood it, it was a sausage with no ham/pork. Right? I may have got that wrong.
And then I connected that info with something that is on my mind right now and that is that McDonald's here in Sweden is going halal. Chickens slaugthered have to be blessed by Allah. And I think that is wrong. Or at least food for thought...
So meat/beef-sausages worries me! (haha, that sounded kind of weird :) They do! Yes, you can laugh, but they do. No ham/pork and then it's all halal... McDonald's will be the first in line... And I don't like it.
The same thing has happened to me numerous times. Extra ground beef in the fridge, and all I got left is hot dog buns.
Actually, I'd imagine that this happens to a lot of people, since hot dogs come in packs of 8 and buns come in packs of 12, or whatever the actual numbers are. Either way, you always end up with too many buns.
Beef, you never have that problem - just grind as much as you need, or pack the burgers bigger or smaller if you need to.
That's probably why nobody has yet invented a plastic doohickey that converts hot dogs into burger-shaped patties - there's just less demand for them.
What with junk food conversions, eskimos, and Marcus from Gävle, this is one of the more surreal SE talks I've seen in a while...
(p.s. - I did understand your post and how you made the connection, Marcus. I suppose doing something like that in Sweden, would cause a greater uproar than in most of the rest of the world. But in the end, if the chickens are still being slaughtered according to Swedish law, is it that bad that they undergo one extra step to make them accessible to a minority? McDonald's does have a history or changing company practices to cater to local populations - it's not unique to Muslems in Sweden)
That reminds me of salchipapas, which happen to be one of my wife's favorite. I don't know if it's just a Colombian thing, but it's french fries served with hot dogs cut into 2-inch lengths, with each end split like an octodog (though in this case, it's four legs on each end of the 'dog), then deep fried.
The kind of thing she gets to eat only on vacations or birthdays.
Wait a minute - just watched the video. You missed the most important part - turn the top half of the mold upside down, and it allows you to create a trough in the middle of the burger-dog to fill with your favorite toppings, like cheese, bacon, or vegetables! Jucy Lucy Dogs! Incredible!
On a further note of surreality, my wife just came over and asked me to sniff her hamster's butt. It smelled as you would expect.
@Kenji: Ima gonna ignore the hamster thing. DOODEEDOOODOOOO
Oh yeah, I did watch the whole video, but without the use of any actual meat/fillings, it didn't leave much of an impression on me. Then again, I'm not the target audience for this thing seeing as I almost never prepare food at home. :(
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It's called a beef sausage. Might hold together better with a sausage skin wrapper too.
jkdrummer at 12:21PM on 10/11/09
@jkdrummer: That's true, for make hot dog-sized sausages, one at a time. Not that there's anything terribly wrong with that. This seems to be marketed as a way to use up extra ground meat/buns (with potential for funky fillings) instead of for making sausages with seasoned meat. I wonder how many people feel like they need a hot dog mold.
Robyn Lee at 12:50PM on 10/11/09
Somehow I came to think of the Swedish McDonald's who recently started to use chicken-meat that is halal. I came to think of this as sausage normally includes porkmeat that can never be halal since muslims don't eat pork what so ever.
Swedish McDonald's promises that the slaughter of chickens they need to make food is done following all Swedish laws and regulations. But in the "slaugthering act" there is someone approved of some kind of an islamic foundation who will attend and chant islamic verses when the poor chickens are put to death.
Well... I don't like it.
I don't believe in God, Allah or anything. I just wan't to eat my food and if any animals have died for it I want them to have been killed and have lived as "humanly" as possibly. I don't want the things I eat to have been blessed by Allah! Please respect my non-belief!
And I don't like that McD, as a company, uses religious staff (or uses suppliers that uses religious staff). What will happen if McD has to downsize it's staff? Will they fire that religious guy or someone in the kitchen?
If you are religious I think you can chant before you eat or you can go to some other place where the food is prepared in the way your religion allows. But leave McDonald's out of it!
Marcus at 12:58PM on 10/11/09
I've made those before, when all I had on had was ground beef and hot dog rolls. Wasn't that bad.
ratbuddy at 8:07PM on 10/11/09
@Marcus Wow, I was wondering what your thoughts were on chicken, McDonalds, the Swiss, and religon. How'd ya know?
DenghisCon at 8:55PM on 10/11/09
@DenghisCon, I was thinking exactly the same thing, except I was hoping for parsley, Olive Garden, Eskimos, and chess tournaments.
dbcurrie at 2:38AM on 10/12/09
So maybe it helps the meat hold together well. How about making your tuna roll or lobster roll that way? We New Englanders are fond of toasted exterior cut hot dog buns and will put just about anything in them, so why not hamburger?
lemonfair at 7:37AM on 10/12/09
@DenghisCon and dbcurrie, I was pulling for sex, drugs, rock and roll, and chicken fried steak. Perhaps you could post on some of these other topics Marcus..
ezrider001 at 8:27AM on 10/12/09
Well, you can make fun of my posting... I don't mind. And I understand what you mean. But I wrote that comment because as I understood it, it was a sausage with no ham/pork. Right? I may have got that wrong.
And then I connected that info with something that is on my mind right now and that is that McDonald's here in Sweden is going halal. Chickens slaugthered have to be blessed by Allah. And I think that is wrong. Or at least food for thought...
So meat/beef-sausages worries me! (haha, that sounded kind of weird :) They do! Yes, you can laugh, but they do. No ham/pork and then it's all halal... McDonald's will be the first in line... And I don't like it.
Marcus at 10:09AM on 10/12/09
@ratbuddy
Beat me to the punch!
The same thing has happened to me numerous times. Extra ground beef in the fridge, and all I got left is hot dog buns.
Actually, I'd imagine that this happens to a lot of people, since hot dogs come in packs of 8 and buns come in packs of 12, or whatever the actual numbers are. Either way, you always end up with too many buns.
Beef, you never have that problem - just grind as much as you need, or pack the burgers bigger or smaller if you need to.
That's probably why nobody has yet invented a plastic doohickey that converts hot dogs into burger-shaped patties - there's just less demand for them.
What with junk food conversions, eskimos, and Marcus from Gävle, this is one of the more surreal SE talks I've seen in a while...
(p.s. - I did understand your post and how you made the connection, Marcus. I suppose doing something like that in Sweden, would cause a greater uproar than in most of the rest of the world. But in the end, if the chickens are still being slaughtered according to Swedish law, is it that bad that they undergo one extra step to make them accessible to a minority? McDonald's does have a history or changing company practices to cater to local populations - it's not unique to Muslems in Sweden)
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 10:56PM on 10/12/09
@Kenji: But there is a plastic doohickey that turns hot dogs into OCTODOGS!!!!
Yay human ingenuity.
Robyn Lee at 11:02PM on 10/12/09
@robyn
Hooray for white trash seafood!
That reminds me of salchipapas, which happen to be one of my wife's favorite. I don't know if it's just a Colombian thing, but it's french fries served with hot dogs cut into 2-inch lengths, with each end split like an octodog (though in this case, it's four legs on each end of the 'dog), then deep fried.
The kind of thing she gets to eat only on vacations or birthdays.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 11:14PM on 10/12/09
@Robyn
Wait a minute - just watched the video. You missed the most important part - turn the top half of the mold upside down, and it allows you to create a trough in the middle of the burger-dog to fill with your favorite toppings, like cheese, bacon, or vegetables! Jucy Lucy Dogs! Incredible!
On a further note of surreality, my wife just came over and asked me to sniff her hamster's butt. It smelled as you would expect.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at 11:33PM on 10/12/09
@Kenji: Ima gonna ignore the hamster thing. DOODEEDOOODOOOO
Oh yeah, I did watch the whole video, but without the use of any actual meat/fillings, it didn't leave much of an impression on me. Then again, I'm not the target audience for this thing seeing as I almost never prepare food at home. :(
Robyn Lee at 11:40PM on 10/12/09