A & W has temporarily brought back whistle dogs which I think is a great thing. It was a treat having one again and it made me realize something. Whistle dogs are a simple thing to make and I should of been making them myself. Hotdogs are a summer staple for my wife and I, and as I have yelled loudly I would rather have a hotdog than a hamburger. If my memory is correct I have only made whistle dogs three times. Have been thinking about it since Friday and not sure why I haven't been making them, for some reason I just haven't. Time to change that since they will only be at A & W temporarily.
What makes a whistle dog such a good hotdog is the simplicity of them. The wiener isn't steamed, boiled, or deep-fried, it is simply fried. The cheese, relish, diced onion, and bacon is all it needs. Now, I am a big mustard with a hotdog, never ketchup person, but with a whistle dog leave the mustard in the fridge. Lots of people will totally disagree with this. A whistle dog does NOT need any mustard, ketchup, sour kraut, hot peppers, or anything else. There is a balance that is created with the wiener, bacon, cheese, relish, and diced onion that is perfect. Adding other things just mutes the flavour combination and it goes from a great hotdog to just a hotdog.
There is one thing that is a little difficult and that is splitting the wiener. You want to slice the wiener length wise just enough so that you can lay it flat. You want to keep it as one piece not two. You just have to be careful and after you get one the next ones are easy. A little trick I found doing it with breakfast sausage is once cut put them on a plate cut side down with another plate on top. Put them in the fridge for a couple of hours. For my wife and I it was four wieners but just make as many as you need.
4 very good wieners
4 slices cooked bacon
4 hotdog buns
Diced onion, about 1 and 1/2 teaspoons per bun
sweet green relish, about 1 and 1/2 teaspoons per bun
sliced cheddar cheese, enough to put on one side of each bun, you can use cheese slices one for each bun is enough just cut each one in half.
Preheat a frying pan on medium heat. Place the wieners cut side down and cook for 2 minutes. While wieners are cooking place cheese on one side of the buns and place under the broiler to lightly toast the bun and start the cheese melting. After 2 minutes turn the wieners over and cook for 2 minutes. To assemble the whistle dogs spread the relish on the opposite side of the buns from the cheese. Add the diced onion on the relish, place the wiener in the bun cut side up. Put the slice of bacon in the middle of the wiener so that when you close the bun the bacon stays in the middle. Your done, now eat
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