Tiggytam said:
All this talk about whether the Telstra Dome will soon ban taking in your own food and drink reminded me of something I have been wondering about.
If one takes their own hotdogs to the footy in a flask, do you have hot water in the flask or do you cook them at home, heat the flask up beforehand and just add the cooked hotdogs before you set off. If that is the case do they stay very warm or if you cook them in the flask how do you go getting them out of the flask at the footy without spilling hot water all over yourself?
I am an expert, doing this every time we go to the footy.
Ingredients;
- Hot dogs (we prefer fat Kransky type, sometimes going for the dogs with cheese inside. Yum
- bread rolls, fresher the better
- sauces: tomato, relish and/or mustard
- butter as required
- water
- 1 x wooden skewer
- 1 x thermus
- glad wrap
- kettle
- pot
Method:
1. Boil a kettle of water, half-fill the thermos flask with the boiling water, swirl around and close lid loosely. This gets the internals hot. Leave water in for now.
2. Put the remainder of the kettle water into a saucepan, bring to boil (won't take long) and cook the dogs.
3. cut the rolls, and butter if required. We take small mustard and tomato sauce bottles with us, but if you don't want to you can add the sauce now. Place rolls in glad-wrap.
4. Once the dogs are cooked, empty the water from the flask. But, before pouring it out, swirl around again to heat the inside. The water will still be scolding, so be careful.
5. Add the dogs into the now-empty flask, put lid on. Go to the footy.
6. To get the dogs out of the flask, what you'll need is a skewer - the things that are used in shaslicks. You can pick up a packet of wooden skewers in any the supermarket. You can skewer the hotdog length wise, down the shaft, then tilting the flask slightly withdraw the skewer and the dog comes out, plop it straight into the roll.
7. Enjoy.
You can optionally place cheese, or anything else for that matter, in the rolls before hand.
'Stu
