How to Make Hot Dogs at Home (with a BONUS Archery Challenge!) | By The Bearded Butchers!

It's time to find out what are hot dogs made of! No, not the cheap ones, these are the real ones. Today, we're going to take venison trimmings and turn them into a traditional summertime favorite - hot dogs!

By the end of this video, you're going to turn out a delicious, tasty hot dog at home, right in your own kitchen. We'll be using venison and pork fat in this video to make our hot dogs! You are free to use venison that's already been ground and frozen (thaw it first, obviously), you just may not know the fat content compared to using meat that's not been ground.

We are using a 80% lean to 20% pork fat mix for our hot dogs. In our video today, we are using 24 lbs of venison.

We also add 2 oz minced garlic and 2 oz hickory smoke per 12 lb meat.

With 28mm cellulose casing, 8 hots dogs makes up 1 lb.

30:13 How to tie a hot dog

37:23 How to peel the casing off of a hot dog

40:48 Don't miss the archery challenge!!

46:09 - A prayer and some family time

When making hot dogs, you don't want the ground meat to have any definition like sausage whatsoever. The ground meat should be very finely ground by the end of 4 or 5 passes through the grinder. Remember, the colder the meat is, the more efficiently it will pass through the grinder.

Here is everything you will need:

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Index:
5:21 - Start by seasoning the meat. 12 lb gets 6 oz of Bearded Butcher Blend seasoning. We mix the seasoning into the trimmings before we grind them so we end up with a much better blend.
7:59 - Scott show you how to take apart, assemble, clean, and lubricate the meat grinder.
10:00 - Time to grind up some venison! Start with a 10mm or 3/8 inch plate for a coarse grind.
12:17 - Grind #2 goes through a 4.5mm or 1 inch plate. Never remove the guards from your meat grinder!
14:06 - Grind #3. Replicating the outcome of a bowl chopper (finer meat texture) by running the venison through the grinder again.
16:23 - Grind #4.
16:31 - Grind #5. Change your gloves (lots of protein extraction by now, everything is stick and the proteins are binding together). At this point, dump in 1.25 lb ice for 12 lbs of meat. Dump it right into the ground meat. This will bring the temp down and help it through the final grind.
21:54 - Now it's time to get out the mixer! MEAT makes it super simple by allowing for a quick attachment of the grinder to the mixer that you just finished using. Just dump in your ground meat and 1/2 ounce pink cure (sodium nitrite for wild game) for every 12 lb meat. Use about 1/2 bottle of water as well. Change directions every minute, 8 minutes total - so about 4 minutes mixing in each direction. You are free to add more water if you notice that the meat is firming up. Lean meat like venison will usually absorb more water.
25:28 - No more power tools. Time to stuff the meat into the casings on the manual stuffer.
28:31 - How to twist hot dogs. Try to keep up! 😮
32:25 - Time to smoke the hot dogs on the Traeger 885. 165 degrees for 2 hours, then 1 hour at 185 degrees, then 1 more hour at 205 degrees. 4 hours total... Then a hot dog ice bath!

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Hey Sean, Seth, and Scott! Love your videos!

As a youth, my grandfather retired from B&W and bought a small grocery store on the outskirts of my hometown, Lynchburg, VA. Therein, he operated a modest meatcutting operation that was the main draw.

As soon as I turned 15 and 6 months, I acquired my workers permit and began working with him on Saturdays. He trained me to fully process beef hind quarters as well as pork, chicken, and deer.

I think my main job was to breakdown and clean the saw, tenderized, grinder, and other equipment. My grandfather, however, quickly turned over the operations to me alone on Saturdays and, eventually, Sundays.

During each Christmas season, a huge operation was launched to cook, debone, and slice country hams. In Virginia, both when entertaining and for the family, country ham biscuits are a holiday staple.

In this video, I noticed one stark difference in how grandpa set up his shop. The meat grinder was inside of our walk-in cooler. "Brrrr!" was the word when it came time to grind. Like you, however, he also did the double grind: once through the course die and then thought the fine die.

Your videos bring back so many memories for me. Keep on keeping on.

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Adding the family and pray made this video 100% better

[charlesfoleysr]

A trick I read somewhere, rather than running bread or having ungrounded meat in the worm, I just run some of the already ground meat through, so you don't have any unground meat left. This works best for the final grind.

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[joshuamonroe]

Best part of this whole video was the prayer before eating. We need more of that in the content we consume.