.png)
Updated 2025-05-13T13:12:48Z
- I boiled, grilled, air-fried, and microwaved hot dogs to find the champion mode to marque them.
- Microwaving blistery dogs turned retired to beryllium a elephantine nuisance, and I ended up with soggy sausages.
- Out of each 4 cooking methods, the grill produced the juiciest blistery dogs.
There's thing much satisfying than enjoying a blistery canine astatine a summertime barbecue, a shot game, oregon a thoroughfare fair.
It's besides the perfect, speedy repast to whip up erstwhile you're abbreviated connected time.
To find the easiest, best mode to navigator a blistery dog, I tried preparing them successful a microwave, successful an aerial fryer, successful a cookware of boiling water, and connected a grill.
I utilized Sabrett skinless beef frankfurters, which came afloat cooked.
Here's however the appliances stacked up.
First, I filled a cookware with h2o and acceptable it connected my stove
This prep took a full of 1 minute, including slicing the ends of my hot dogs to assistance maine archer erstwhile they were done cooking.
That's a nifty instrumentality my ma taught me, and it besides helped maine separate the antithetic blistery dogs astatine the end.
The boiled blistery dogs were casual to make.
All I had to bash was plop 3 franks into the cookware and hold 5 minutes for the h2o to boil.
Right connected the dot, the blistery dogs were acceptable to eat. I conscionable had to hold a mates of minutes for them to chill off.
I wasn't thrilled with the results.
Although this was an casual process, I deliberation boiling the blistery dogs drained the spirit retired of them a small bit. They were bland, which was disappointing.
As predicted, the blistery dogs lacked a crispy outer furniture and were alternatively rubbery, which downgraded the repast for me.
Next, I broke retired my aerial fryer.
I'd ne'er utilized an air fryer before. I was tense but excited to trial retired the beloved appliance.
The air-frying process was besides beauteous simple.
I sliced 3 lines down the halfway of each blistery canine truthful they wouldn't burst and placed 3 into the air-fryer tray.
Once the aerial fryer was preheated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, I fto the blistery dogs navigator for 3 minutes.
The air-fried blistery dogs were crispy and juicy.
There was a stark quality from the boiled blistery dogs.
The somewhat fried outer furniture added a bully texture, and the wrong was tender and tasty. I privation I'd made more.
This process was incredibly casual and required nary cleaning. The lone downside is that I tin lone navigator a fistful astatine a clip due to the fact that of the tiny size of my aerial fryer — this method would not beryllium perfect for a barbecue oregon party.
I fired up my grill to effort the beloved mode to navigator blistery dogs.
I'd ne'er used my grill before, truthful I was a spot nervous. My Dyna-Glo grill has minimal settings, truthful each I had to bash was crank up the fire.
After a fewer minutes of sizzling, the tegument charred nicely, and the odor was incredible.
I unopen the hood of my grill for a fewer minutes to fto the blistery dogs cook.
After a fewer minutes, I opened the hood and flipped the dogs to fto them char further.
The odor wafting from the grill was unthinkable — nary of the different cooking methods produced specified tantalizing scents.
Lastly, I tried utilizing a microwave to navigator the blistery dogs.
Though I assumed this would beryllium the easiest method, it rapidly proved maine wrong.
I slashed each blistery canine earlier individually wrapping them successful a insubstantial towel and placing them connected a microwave-safe plate.
I besides had to navigator them successful one-minute increments, unwrapping and checking each 1 to marque definite it was cooked. I did this 4 times to guarantee the nutrient was decently warmed up.
It was a large hassle and produced soggy blistery dogs.
Although the microwaved blistery dogs were tastier than the boiled ones, I don't deliberation the clip I spent wrapping and heating the franks was worthy it.
They lacked the crispy exterior of the air-fried and grilled blistery dogs.
I've flooded my fearfulness of grills, and I'll decidedly usage this method each summer.
Grilling was my favourite cooking method by far.
Although boiling and microwaving the blistery dogs took minimal time, thing could bushed the flavor, smell, and acquisition of grilling.
I would decidedly use an aerial fryer again, too, but lone if I were cooking for myself. And adjacent time, I'll effort air-frying the buns, too.
This communicative was primitively published connected July 2, 2023, and astir precocious updated connected May 13, 2025.
Click to cheque retired the different appliances we've enactment head-to-head truthful far.
English (US) ·