A Hot Dog Bun is a Type of Soft Bun Shaped Specifically To Contain a Hot Dog or Another type of Sausage.

 History

Hot dog historian and professor emeritus at Roosevelt University Bruce Kraig believes the term "hot dog" was invented in the late 19th century by American observers of German immigrants, who ate sausages on buns. The Americans joked that the sausages looked suspiciously like the Germans' dachshunds.

Charles Feldman invented an elongated hot dog bun on Coney Island in 1871 according to writer Jefferey Stanton.

According to an obituary of Austrian immigrant baker Ignaz Frisch Mann published in 1904, the "Vienna roll" supplied to Coney Island hot dog vendors was invented by Freshman and made him a rich man sometime before his death.

At the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in St. Louis, Missouri, a German concessionaire, Antoine Feuchtwanger, served hot sausages called 'frankfurters', after his birthplace, Frankfurt, in Hesse. At first he loaned gloves for his customers to hold his sausages. When many were not returned, he asked his brother, who was a baker, to invent a solution. Thus, the hot dog bun was born.

Reginal Variations

Split-top hot dog buns are popular in New England for lobster rolls and clam sandwiches.

In Chicago, Illinois, where poppy-seed buns are popularly served with Chicago-style hot dogs, the buns are made with high-gluten flour to hold up to steaming.

In Austria, Poland, and throughout Central Europe a "hot dog" is a baguette which is hollowed out by cutting off the end and impaling it on a spike so a sausage can be inserted. In Denmark this variation is known as a "French Hot Dog" because of the use of baguette, and a "French Hot Dog Dressing" which contains Dijon Mustard. Specially prepared baguettes are made for this popular food.

Ingredients

Common hot dog sausage ingredients include:

• Meat trimmings and fat

• Flavorings, such as salt, garlic, and paprika

• Preservatives (cure) – typically sodium erythorbate and sodium nitrite

Pork and beef are the traditional meats used in hot dogs. Less expensive hot dogs are often made from chicken or turkey, using low-cost mechanically separated poultry. Changes in meat technology and dietary preferences have led manufacturers to lower the salt content and use turkey, chicken, and vegetarian meat substitutes.