http://corduroyorange.com/?p=45 The only Food Blog written by Jesse Sharrard Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:50:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://corduroyorange.com/?p=45#comment-60981 haroon dadoo Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:02:14 +0000 http://corduroyorange.com/?p=45#comment-60981 Great article. I'm looking for vegetable sausage casing. Where is it obtainable? ThankHaroon Great article.
I’m looking for vegetable sausage casing. Where is it obtainable?
ThankHaroon

]]> http://corduroyorange.com/?p=45#comment-112 Corduroy Orange » Blog Archive » Frankenfurter Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:35:01 +0000 http://corduroyorange.com/?p=45#comment-112 [...] Everything in a hot dog is edible; otherwise manufacturers wouldn’t be allowed to put them on the market.  In general terms, a hot dog is a sausage made of a 5-4-3 forcemeat: 5 parts meat, 4 parts fat, 3 parts ice or ice water, plus seasonings stuffed into a casing.  As with any sausage, it is the recipient of, well, the “less glamorous” parts of the animal: the parts that are more difficult to sell when they’re packaged as themselves: which is to say, the various scraps left over after the animal has been segmented into saleable cuts, etc.  If a weiner includes organs (heart or kidney, eg), the organ and the breed of animal it came from must be named in the ingredients list. Kosher hot dogs can only be made from animals and cuts that are considered to be kosher: which is to say, in the case of hot dogs, they are all-beef franks from an appropriately-slaughtered bovine (killed by an observant Jew with an extremely sharp knife with a single cut to the neck of an animal that has not been frightened) and all blood and blood vessels have been removed from the meat before it is ground to become the hot dog. You may have seen the ads for kosher hot dogs on TV which brag about how they don’t have any butts.  This is because kosher law dictates that the meat in their hot dogs does not come from the hindquarters of the animal. This relates to Genesis 32:32, which is perhaps least confusingly translated in the New American Standard version of the Bible, “Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.” Basically, it means unless the sciatic nerve is removed, the muscle is unclean according to kosher laws. [...] [...] Everything in a hot dog is edible; otherwise manufacturers wouldn’t be allowed to put them on the market.  In general terms, a hot dog is a sausage made of a 5-4-3 forcemeat: 5 parts meat, 4 parts fat, 3 parts ice or ice water, plus seasonings stuffed into a casing.  As with any sausage, it is the recipient of, well, the “less glamorous” parts of the animal: the parts that are more difficult to sell when they’re packaged as themselves: which is to say, the various scraps left over after the animal has been segmented into saleable cuts, etc.  If a weiner includes organs (heart or kidney, eg), the organ and the breed of animal it came from must be named in the ingredients list. Kosher hot dogs can only be made from animals and cuts that are considered to be kosher: which is to say, in the case of hot dogs, they are all-beef franks from an appropriately-slaughtered bovine (killed by an observant Jew with an extremely sharp knife with a single cut to the neck of an animal that has not been frightened) and all blood and blood vessels have been removed from the meat before it is ground to become the hot dog. You may have seen the ads for kosher hot dogs on TV which brag about how they don’t have any butts.  This is because kosher law dictates that the meat in their hot dogs does not come from the hindquarters of the animal. This relates to Genesis 32:32, which is perhaps least confusingly translated in the New American Standard version of the Bible, “Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.” Basically, it means unless the sciatic nerve is removed, the muscle is unclean according to kosher laws. [...]

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