15 hours Ago By Paige Freshwater
People have vowed to never eat hot dogs again after seeing how they're made - but some say it "isn't even that bad". The YouTube channel 'How It's Made' posted a video detailing the journey of hotdogs from production to supermarket shelves, but the process appears to have unsettled some viewers. The five-minute clip provides a step-by-step breakdown of how they're made.
The video explains: "The cuts they start with are called trimmings - pieces of meat left over from cutting steaks or pork chops. The trimmings are ground the same way butchers chop up hamburger meat by pushing the cuts through grated metal plates." Scrambled eggs will be creamier and tastier if you add 1 ingredient to the frying pan Woman says you're storing fruit and vegetables all wrong - and it's costing you The next steps involve adding processed chicken trimmings, food starch, salt, and other flavourings to the ground meat.
"Water is sprayed into the mix and everything is blended together in a big vat. Corn syrup adds a dash of sweetness," it adds. More water is then added to make the hot dogs 'juicier', before the mixture is pureed in another machine.
To form the familiar sausage shape, rolls of cellulose tubing are loaded into a stuffing machine to hold the mixture. The narrator shares an interesting fact: "It takes just 35 seconds to make enough hotdogs to span a football field, twice. The hot dogs are then moved into another machine before making their way through a "liquid smoke shower" to add flavour to them as they bake in an oven.
Finally, the hot dogs are moved to another machine and pass through a "liquid smoke shower" for added flavour before being baked in an oven. "Hot out of the oven, they're drenched in cold, salty water to chill them in preparation for packaging," he explained. As the journey continues, the hot dogs then glide onto a conveyor belt where "steamy air" is applied to strip away the cellulose casings before the franks are encased for supermarket shelves.
The revealing process garnered mixed reactions online, with one stunned viewer remarking: "I haven't had a hot dog in about 10 years thanks to this show." Meanwhile, another viewer shared their educational use of the footage, saying: "Showed this to my class. I don't regret it.
" Contrastingly, a different perspective was evident when someone stated: "I was like this is actually not that bad until the corn syrup." Yet, some remain unfazed by the behind-the-scenes look, with one person commenting: "People say you'll never eat it if you see how hotdogs are made. This is actually better than I thought it would be.
" Another concurred: "This is a lot more tame than what I imagined. I'm also still gonna keep eating hot dogs." And finally, an unshakable hot dog aficionado declared: "Not only will I continue to eat hot dogs, I'm eating one while watching this.
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