— Paul Campanella

Well, how about hot dogs hot dogs are kind of its own little thing that is a fully emulsified sausage where the meat and fat and binders are thoroughly chopped and whipped oftentimes in what's a machine called a Buffalo Chopper, which is a very very high speed food processor and meant for this purpose. You can put anything you want to in a hot dog. Why because it's all gonna disappear into one lovely two, right? I actually happen to have some hot dogs here. It's amazing to me that somebody just finally figured out to put out dogs in four packs rather than eight packs. But anyway hot dogs are then typically fully cooked. These are typically in a synthetic casing. So hot dogs are typically ready to eat but that texture of hot dog, as you can see as the difference between that and a you know, an Italian sausage that's going to have that fully fully integrated fully emulsified texture to it. This hot dogs also often have a milk powder added to them added proteins that help the The Binding all sorts of stuff and then they're often cured as well for shelf life with the Sodium nitrate. So there's all sorts of hot dogs available out there now whether it's all beef whether it's nitrate free whether etc etc. I haven't made hot dogs in 20 years at this point. It is a fun thing to make I'll tell you that but yeah, anyway, there's a lot about hot dogs frankfurters, whatever you want to call them. But yeah, there you go. All right