r/RevTrad

-This is basically just a recipe for an onion topping, but it does seem to work well.

-Apologies for store bought hot dog buns, I made homemade buns yesterday but it didn't turn out right.

-Apologies for store bought potato chips. (Yes seriously)

-Apologies for the store bought ginger ale (ok I might be trolling, I'm going to have to make Alton Brown's ginger ale and report back, it's been about a decade since I've had it and I can't remember if it's better)

-I am using the 12 inch skillet next time...

-...if this didn't permanently stain my baby blue porcelain enamel! I understand that 50 year old porcelain pieces have permanent stains as part of the character, but this is like getting pregnant the first time you lose your virginity.

-I am putting the salt in with the onions at the start next time (and using kosher salt, perhaps a different amount) because I'm not a moron.

-I wanted to use a weird expensive hipster ketchup but my grocery store didn't have any

-Yes I use vegetarian dogs, only as a medical issue

-The second half was TOTALLY ignored. My "how to build a hot dog" tip is 20 minutes in the toaster oven at 250 degrees F (because it's just over the boiling point) to get the center warm, then 10 or 15 minutes broiled to char the outside, because "a broiler is an upside down grill."

-Buns then reheated at 250F for 7 minutes

Overall: Very nice, but it says "optionally add sauerkraut on top." I wanted to do that, but there's just not enough room (and I broke out a scale and measured out 1/4 of the onions for each dog.) So it's a topic of debate whether this topping is better than kraut, or whether it's actually enough for 8 dogs. I *could* see a cool contrast between the two, so I don't want to mix the onions with the kraut before hand either

Also, I feel like brown sugar or molasses would work well with the ketchup (and then we might be talking about adding cayenne pepper for a totally different set of reasons than you might already have been thinking of) but it would probably convey a more Southern image

The biggest flaw is, well, as a New Yorker, you don't go to Grey's Papaya (or "Papaya Dog," my personal favorite) for the actual hot dogs, you go for the drinks. When my older brother took me to 6th ave to laugh at the dildos in the sex shop windows when I was 14, he laughed at me for getting a sprite with my corn dog, because it's bullshit, you go there for the mango etc. But I guess Kramer didn't go there for that reason, so it fits.