Fresh out of the oven hot dog buns. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
I had an unstoppable hunger this past weekend for old-Chicago-style all-beef hotdogs from
Vienna Beef, the best hotdog in the country
in my opinion. I wanted that charred skin flavor of summer, the grill smoke from fat dripping on coals, the juicy snap when you bite into them.
I decided to make buns. Why? Because, we were inviting friends (great food must be shared); I had a
cool hot dog pan from American Pan; I had never made them before; and most important, the best hot dogs deserve special treatment. One of the great things about cooking is that you're subliminally eating the entire time, a kind of calorie-free spiritual nourishment, and I was thinking about the hot dogs the whole time in ...
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