 Shift your you're calling me up. Yeah, yeah Fine, I guess somebody else How do I present this Awesome Hi everybody First I would like to announce that there will be a reprise of this talk on Sunday in the morning So if there's something you have that's conflicting you could also check it out then However today, I would like to announce and welcome to the stage our One of our most senior the senior scientists from BSS labs And he's here to give you a presentation that like it's just all inspiring We are really really excited that he was willing to do this for us. And so we really hope you enjoy it And like if you don't learn something here today, they're clearly the problem is with you So thank you for coming and please please welcome Jacob Kozol friends family steamed colleagues Gracious guests. I welcome you to explore hot dogs Hot dogs are ubiquitous part of American and global life Everybody eats them celebrities eat them When you go to a ball game, of course you eat a hot dog. Maybe even a ballpark dog The presidents all eat them But the thing about hot dogs is they're pretty standard how you cook a hot dog You can bake them. You can boil them pan fry them grill them microwave them These methods of cooking hot dogs have been passed down by generations and there's very little variation But thanks to a fellow senior scientist at BSS labs We have uncovered a method of cooking hot dogs that was left in the past I present to you the presto hot dog This claims to cook hot dogs in 60 seconds and it can cook six hot dogs Here is the packaging that was found with the archaeological study as you can see very much a 70s product Quality quality logo here And now we get to the technique This is a fascinating method of cooking hot dogs almost archaic in the presentation You set stick the hot dog. I need a mic This is Mike. This is Mike Oh Okay, that works. Yep Hear me in the back So let me redirect your attention to these metallic spikes We take these Conical electrodes and we plug them into either end of the hot dog Allowing us to plug the machine into the wall running a hundred and twenty volts through it and cooking these dogs in 60 seconds as you see here. It includes a very helpful pamphlet you separate the cover Cover one to six you can decide maybe you're cooking for yourself and you only want one or two Maybe you're cooking for your whole family You fill it up with six hot dogs and you can do this in one go you insert the cover back on and you put it in The wall and there you go 60 seconds and these hot dogs are going to come out perfectly cooked now I want to also emphasize this is specifically for frankfurters It says nothing about sausages or any other conical shaped meat product simply frankfurters Now for our testing we used four brands to get a variety to make sure there is a consistency of quality We used Oscar Meyer classic uncured wieners ballpark Franks Lightlife smart dogs for the vegans out there and Hebrew national. We also wanted that variety We have turkey chicken and pork in one chicken and pork in one and then that solo beef Hebrew national As you can see the packaging I want to direct your attention right now to the horizontal nature of the ballpark and veggie dog packaging and The vertical nature of the Hebrew national and Oscar Meyer wiener packaging Now before we can plunge into the depths of electrocuting hot dogs We must first understand how does a hot dog cook in a traditional manner So we ran it through the standard five cooking methods started with a pan fry Took four minutes and 15 seconds to heat the pan up to temperature with a little bit of butter in it to make Sure the hot dog got nice and brown and fried and then we let them cook for three minutes and ten seconds exactly This led to a very linear temperature scale. They all started around 76 77 degrees Fahrenheit and over those three minutes and ten seconds They were able to climb up to about a hundred and sixty two to a hundred and sixty five degrees Fahrenheit We then moved on to the microwave a lesser known Predominantly dorm room inspired method of cooking hot dogs very fast no preheat time and then we did a standard hundred second cook for all of the hot dogs This had a little bit more variety as you notice the veggie dog and Oscar Meyer We're a little lower temperature at the end Whereas the Hebrew national and ballpark Frank's kind of climbed up at the temperature that might be more the single and double source of meat versus the triple and veggie dog Moving on of course to the oven we baked them preheated for about 15 minutes to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and then cooked for an additional 15 minutes some ovens may vary but for 400 degrees Fahrenheit 15 minutes was a solid cook time and In this instance pretty even scaling for all of the hot dogs However, the Oscar Meyer heated up pretty quickly and that's actually a tendency we notice in general It's a smaller hot dog. So maybe that is why it cooks a little bit faster gets to a higher temperature quicker Moving on to boiling it took my stove 14 minutes to boil it generally It'll range from 10 to 15 minutes to get a wire to boil and then cooking for exactly five minutes all of the hot dogs at once with the boil because you can fill a nice pot and And a strong variation here Ballpark Frank's really not getting up in the temperature quite quite edible still according to the sources a little salty little chewy But edible Oscar Meyer again high temperature Leads to a more solid kind of mouthfeel And then the one everybody knows grilling a hot dog took us 20 minutes We let the coals let it preheat and then cooked for exactly eight minutes That led to good results with our grill Generally, we found that seven to nine minutes is the ideal range for cooking a hot dog on the grill Fairly even temperature climb getting higher up there and 180 190 200 and they all came up with like a nice amount of browning on the surface That crispy kind of crunch you expect when you bite into a grilled hot dog So now we move on to what we're all here for electrocuting them we started by taking a resistance at a base temperature Oscar Meyer and ballpark Frank up there with 2.1 and 2 mega ohms and then the Lightlife veggie dogs in Hebrew National lower with the point 2 5 and point 5 mega ohms Assuming that that might be a result of the higher sodium content in the Oscar Meyer and ballpark Frank's or the variety of meats products within Now here's it here's what it looks like when you line them all up you get a nice amount of separation between each dog And actually as you see there's a bit of a curvature This allows a little bit of a spark in between and kind of gets that if that kind of seal down the Side which will pop open to let the juices open up but not come out So that way you when you put it in your bun the juices will spill up spill out perfectly, but won't be wasted Now we see some interesting temperature climbs here not a very linear progression Hebrew National very slow to heat up. I think that's because of the single beef source there However spiking up well into 168 degrees Fahrenheit Whereas the rest had a more linear progression and all ended up around 160 So some quotes from the experiments this is all of course with the most important method which was the electrocution Oscar Meyer technically warm warmer in the center than the edges and actually This Oscar Meyer experiment showed us that if you go back here We started with 60 seconds as we were directed But we realized that a hundred second cook time is much better for the hot dog Or it gives you a little bit more of a crunch on the inside and a generally warm inside versus here It's technically warm so the ballpark Frank's right kind of split That's due to that kind of curve you get with that dog. It's a nice split Not very hot Turning into who this one's pretty hot Surface temp was high Cold and dead on the inside You can all relate a little bit Then the veggie dogs ooh surprisingly warm Tofu licious and synthetic smoke taste a dope mouthfeel And finally the Hebrew national This one's better Better than the last more evenly cooked Again benefiting from the hundred second cook time smells like a hot dog This one tastes like a hot dog. That's actually cooked and of course. I'm a really bad vegan So now the comparison we averaged out the cook time results for Initial temp and final temp for all the hot dogs We scaled it down into a time range of a hundred and seconds and here you can see that the hot dog are coming from a very low Initial temperature ends up skyrocketing up very quickly Even kind of beating out the microwave a little bit in this one example And then we kind of go down pan-fried pretty quick The little lowers drilling it Boiling and baking both very slow because of that preheat time and then a long cook time Now we talked about the charring Everybody likes a charred hot dog. You want that outside to be crunchy But what about the inside? Why does the inside have to be soft as you can see here by the nature of Plugging in the hot dog and running the electricity through the inside of it. You get a nice char on the inside So you can see the split that was so talked about very juicy and now We thought what about larger dogs? What what if you want to break barriers and go for that sausage? Well, you don't need to linearly align them You can actually push them over one even two Slots and you can fill up more space as you can see here These are some fat hot dogs now and they have plenty of space to grow Now What is what is a hot dog if you if you don't try and see what limits it can handle? What does it take to make a pot dog pop when running a hundred and twenty volts through it? so We did a we didn't experiment with the Oscar Meyer and the veggie dog and we ran them both up at 58 seconds big popping sound 75 seconds a little bit of an electric sizzle 100 seconds. This is when we really could tell they are cooking because it just started smelling like straight burning paper 128 seconds that paper smells gone. It just smells Terrible 150 seconds That's when the smoke starts really coming out of the machine not just inside but coming out of the cover smells charred Now due to safety concerns. We had to shut down the experiment at this point. We want to pop not a burn Veggie dog came out at 171.2 degrees Fahrenheit and Feels so weird as you can see here. I understand why it feels so weird And the inside after pushing it that much nice and charred Now brand verdict First the Hebrew national solo beef dog having a single source of meat really benefits the hot dog It allows that even cook that even flavor Oscar Meyer follows up the Hebrew national heating up pretty well So it's consistently warm a solid taste very well orchestrated hot dog That's followed up by the veggie dog actually beating out the ballpark dog So if you ever going for a ballpark dog, maybe just go for the veggie dog instead now Hebrew national Oscar Meyer number one and two veggie dog ballpark number three and four. I'm gonna go back a couple slides Okay, as you see here ballpark and veggie dogs horizontally line Hebrew national Oscar Meyer vertical So if you ever not not too sure about which hot dog brand to stick because there's many you go to the store And there's a whole aisle of hot dogs go for that vertical packaging that vertical branding a hundred percent of the time It's going to beat out the horizontals Okay, so now What everybody's here for how do the various methods of cooking a hot dog compare Of course the fan favorite is the grill everybody likes a grilled hot dog. It a quote-unquote taste like hot dog Pan frying it also very successful. It's good if you're and you can't don't have a grill you have to be inside pan frying Very solid choice, too Number three however was the hot dog or people were pleasantly surprised a little uncertain going in About an electrocuted hot dog, but the taste was generally sufficient beating out baking Boiling and microwaving a hot dog But this is where the hot dog or starts to really shine of course a microwave is very fast We give it number one slot because there's no cleanup you just put it on the plate and you microwave it Maybe you put some paper towels around to make sure that the moisture is correct But hot dog or microwave very competitive there the pan fry comes in at a solid third Following those is boiling oven and grill because of the lengthy preheat times and the lengthy cook times So now we take that ratio of quality time and number one comes in as the hot dogger Because it had satisfying quality and a high high speed cook Pan fry again good quality decent time So if you're don't have access to a hot dog and I feel so sorry for you if you don't have access to the hot dog I would highly recommend pan frying them Grilling comes in after that grilling is just a solid way if you if you want to impress somebody grill the hot dog microwave better than boiling for time and then boil and Bake I would like to thank our sponsors This was all done in collaboration with GWS and then our senior scientists David Cantrell senior scientist David Shia and see senior scientist Sophia Fondel and remember The mustard indicates progress Okay, okay, all right questions any questions in the back very serious question It that's a great question. I I think the the issue is a fried hot dog is that just oh Okay, so the question asked was why did we not fry the hot dog? and the answer to that is When you when you want to fry something generally you want to apply a batter to it You can think of like a corn dog where you surround the hot dog in a batter frying a hot dog solo is not really the standard method of cooking it Because it'll be superior with that coating so we discounted that method additional questions Everyone has access to a hot dog at home What is your go-to method at home when you want a hot dog? Summer What is the question was what is my go-to method to cook a hot dog at home? Assuming I don't have access to a hot dog or because of course I would go for the hot dog Or and my answer to that is that in warm weather months I would go for the grill I would take that extra time. I would commit to it I think it's worth deciding in advance that you want a grilled hot dog However, if it's winter months the grill is not as practical, so I would go for the pan fry Another question did you consider using the hot dog or with a 220 volts? That is an excellent great question the issue we found is actually oh So the question was do we consider the to run? 220 volts through the hot dog or instead of 120 and the issue we ran into was Getting that from a standard outlet. We want to experiment and what what would a person at home use? However, that is a great for a into more Experimental methods of cooking hot dogs or we can really start upping the voltage the current going through them test What a hot dog can withstand An additional question with in man in the red The question was would we consider expanding this to other food stuffs within the hot dog or and Absolutely, we actually have recently come across another model of the hot dog or and Different branding and that if you pay attention to flock maybe next year There might be in another talk with that included and we would love to have more food stuff What happens when you put a carrot in the hot dog or of course the sausage the sausage? We have to try out sausages Maybe an expanded foray into non meat based hot dogs like a whole gamut of different types of veggie dogs Bananas Another question the back The question is why didn't we experiment with a sous vide? So we had many culinary experts on our panel of tasters and The sous vide is a very popular choice in cooking meats currently Unfortunately what we did have sponsors our funding was limited and so sous vide has been put on the docket for the next round of testing Another question Oh That that is an exceptional question Okay, so the question was how would the hot dog a Swanky swanky Frank how would a hot dog or handle a swanky Franky, which is a hot dog with bacon wrapped around it Now of course you're gonna have to push that cook time You're gonna make sure I would not do the 220 volts with a hot dog We're trying to cook the bacon on the outside because it's an inside-out method of cooking So you run the risk of the bacon, maybe not fully cooking I would postulate that the bacon would be slightly undercooked But probably will hit an edible temperature you might want to experiment with we mentioned sous vide Maybe you sous vide the bacon apply it to the hot dog and then when you put it in the hot dog You get that nice charring from the electricity Any additional questions How does one acquire a hot dog or one acquires a hot dog or by laborious and meticulous searching on a website like eBay or Searching through your parents attic. It's surprising how many families purchase these presto hot doggers Right there they had one in their house any additional questions Well, it's been an absolute pleasure It's kind of a beefy miracle that this all was able to happen So thank you for your time and enjoy the rest of the conference They're no more no more odd