My kids love this simple recipe. They reckon they are the world's best hot dogs. Everytime I serve them they have a saying they got from a Kids show called Drake and Josh. Done with a over the top English accent. "Perry, Perry, can I have some mustard on my wiener, Perry" Makes me laugh everytime.
Quite often I will wrap the buns, grate the cheese, slice the onions and take a thermos of boiling water and a saucepan in a picnic basket to the local park with a free electric BBQ. Put the saucepan on the hot plate an add the water and franks, heat the buns directly on the hotplate turning regularly and fry up the onions. A delicious quick fire outing with 10 minutes preparation.
Recently I had a famous Pinks hot dog in California. This is generally regarded as the standard in world class hot dogs and the line up round the block is testament to this. The stand out feature of the Pinks is the frank has more spice, salt and fat. It is strongly flavoured and really quite tasty. But I don't think it would be suitable to feed to younger children. Even I suffered some mild indigestion. My presentation with the lashing of salted butter, charred onions and fresh grated real cheese is better.
Cut the buns and wrap loosely in foil. Heat in moderate oven
for 15 mins. Put at least 4 ice cubes into the oven to provide steam while heating
the buns.
Slice up the onions and fry in butter till just charred.
Grate the cheese.
Remove the buns from the foil and put a lashing of butter into the bun
and insert the frank.
Garnish: On the bottom side of the frank add onions and on the top side add cheese. Cover frank from side to side with a squeeze of Mustard sauce and fill the gaps with tomato sauce.