
Bar-S Americas Favorite Classic Franks are made from top-quality, USDA-inspected meats. You could probably get away with using hot dog halves but I feel like that will result in catfish simply ripping the bait off the hook.699.4115. Hot dogs come in a variety of flavors and sizes but usually hot dogs cut into thirds will work best as it will fit properly into a channel catfish’s mouth without much hassle.
2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. The Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. Where do the calories in Bar-S Turkey Corn Dogs come from 11.6 47.8 40.6 Protein Total Fat Total Carbohydrate 220 cal. This helps to explain why my “taste ten dogs for a 4th of July ranking” morphed into a sprawling 22 dog ranking launched a week later than intended.Calorie Breakdown. We’re only roaming around this planet for a blink in the grand scheme of things, so I like every experience to be as close to transcendent as possible.
I hit Kmart, Fred Myer (the city’s largest grocer), Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and New Seasons. NATHANS BEEF FRANKS F/PACK.To find said dogs, I roamed Portland, OR straight through the long weekend. BAR S SMOKED SAUSAGE CHEESE. I needed more dogs.* I love ’em.BAR S POLISH SAUSAGE SMOKED.
As are the bottom entries. Please argue with me across every platform, but know that the top four is pretty tough to topple. My preferred way to cook a dog is to beer steam them — as detailed here — but this is more neutral. The best of them certainly inspired concession stand nostalgia.I cooked these in a half-inch of boiling water so that I could get the snappy casings of a boiled dog while also getting a tiny bit of toasting on the casing (if you boil them in a full pot, you don’t get that effect). That said, a few mainstream American dogs did well (with a few genuine shockers). Finally, I stopped going to stores because I knew I’d find more and this thing would have ballooned to 50 entries.Okay, parameters on this: I’m not gauging these off the dogs of my youth, I’m basing them on the German frankfurters that you get at beer halls and street markets in Europe.
Don’t believe us? Start the grill and watch your gang come running.Holy sh*t, someone needs to get fired for these. It’s actually gross that you can get these for this price.From the website: Made from premium beef with a flavor that will soon have you hooked, whether you’re serving up hot dogs for lunch or whipping up your famous chili cheese dogs. What was the wholesale price? How much went to the farmer? The butcher? The American food system is falsely deflated — relying on farm subsidies and exploitative labor practices — and this is further evidence. BAR S — Classic Franks Steve Bramucci*This is way too inexpensive for a pound of meat. Not sure it was worth the effort — they’re middling, at best.TIER I — UNMITIGATED DISASTERS 22.
It’s blended-pureed to a consistency that leaves it in the uncanny valley-level of homogenous foods, where you actually get unnerved by eating it.21. It’s a meat tube with no discernable casing. I literally can’t imagine a hot dog tasting worse than this.
Bar S Hot Dogs Cracked Black Pepper
It doesn’t have tensile strength. Why? Well, the snap of the casing is why I like hotdogs in the first place and that’s tough to imitate with plant protein. Crafted with garlic, cracked black pepper and paprika, our hot dogs are blended with classic spices to give you a perfectly balanced and flavorful bite every time.The hot dog is a very tough form factor for vegan food.
It’s a little easier to stomach here, because it’s plant-based, but still… a little texture would be better.These didn’t belong in an all-meat hot dog ranking. The flavor is similarly gray and the texture is almost Bar S-level of baby food puree. It’s not absolutely horrible but certainly not a tone that builds culinary anticipation. But alone, naked and shivering on the plate? Noooooope. So I’ll tell you that as a standalone product, these aren’t fooling anyone.Under chili and cheese (both would be vegan, I assume)? Maybe.
Bad chicken that was mechanically separated (if you think those machines are precise, think again). FoxYeah, this tastes like chicken. From the taste, I think this is a chicken dog with a smack of ham. HERITAGE FARM — Hot Dogs Steve BramucciInfo: I have to pull from the ingredient list here because there’s no website bearing a description (this is another house brand — in this case, for Kroger): Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork, Water, Corn Syrup, Modified Food Starch.Contains 2% or Less of: Salt, Flavoring, Potassium Lactate, Sodium Lactate, Sodium Phosphates, Dextrose, Sodium Diacetate, Beef, Sodium Erythorbate, Sugar, Sodium Nitrate, Extract of PaprikaI guess I bought chicken and pork combined on this and I’d like to see what the split is.
That said, it’s an almost-passable “concession stand for less than $2.00”-hotdog. It belongs right here, at the very lowest-yet-still-reasonably-edible spot in our ranking.I wish this was ranked even lower because its branding, packaging, and color annoy me greatly. That said, given the pale look of this one and the fact that its branding annoyed me terribly, it wasn’t a full-on nightmare.
Hear that sound? It’s the cascading peals of laughter coming from Jeff Bezos’ office every time a hipster thinks that the Amazon / Whole Foods 365 brand presents a quality product, simply because it’s sold at an upscale grocer (and is therefore willingly paying more for it). It’s borderline bizarre.Listen close when you bite into one of these. Seriously, I googled them and got nothing. 365 — Uncured Grass-Fed Beef Hot Dogs Steve BramucciThere is literally no information about these online, it all refers you to the 365 organic dogs.
I think it’s the white pepper — which always smells a little bit like cow poop to me — but it could also be the nutmeg, mace, ginger, coriander… What a muddled mess. Worse still, there’s a lot of funk at play with this one. 365 is a house brand created to maximize profits (because if your company is vertically integrated like the big grocers, you always make more off of house brands).Anyway, this is greenwashy (Jesus, that label is dumb — slapping itself on the back for mostly industry-standard practices) and also a huge departure in taste.

But it was a 24-pack and I’d already bought $100 in hot dogs. And, to be truthful, I actually found them once in that initial search. At a backyard picnic or a summer ball game, this is the frank you depend on.More relevantly to my tasting notes: Hebrew NationalI did try to find this when I first launched the tasting. HEBREW NATIONAL — Beef Franks Steve BramucciFrom the website: Hebrew National beef franks, made with premium cuts of 100% kosher beef, confidently provide premium taste and high quality every time.

But I promise you, but this dog isn’t great. Way better to be subtweeted about hot dogs than when I write about guns. It smears all over the palate — perhaps because the other flavors are so light.I am happy to be proved wrong. But you taste every MG of that salt.
They fought for it and I’m happy to oblige. But this one lets the sodium dominate the flavor.People seem to love this brand. It is beefy, but just you try it alone — no sweet Hunts ketchup, bright white onions, or distracting chili to balance it out — and tell me it isn’t a salt bomb.**I’m 100% sure there are saltier dogs ranked higher.

