• Get to Know Your Grill
• Keep the Lid Down
• If I Can Grill These, So Can You!
• Hamburger Patties
• Hot Dogs
• Steak
• Chicken
• Other Foods
• Potatoes
• Corn in the Husk

How to Grill:

Preparing hot dogs for the grill is about the same as hamburger. We take the block of hot dogs out of the freezer, chip off as many as we want, and take those to the grill on a plate.

Once again, the idea is to keep things as simple as possible. Those hot dogs will pick up a grilled flavor, just hanging out with the hamburger patties in the grill.

(These grilling times come from one summer's grilling experience. You'll find that your grill's design, and outside temperature affects grilling time. It may take longer to grill things when the tank is nearly empty, too.)

Hot dogs heat up much faster than hamburger patties. When I'm grilling only hot dogs, I use medium heat, and check on them at 1 or 2 minute intervals. As they start browning on the bottom, I turn them, to keep one side from charring. When they swell, and start turning black, they're done.

The family's tastes being what they are, I often grill a mixture of hot dogs and hamburger patties.

When I do this, I keep the patties on one side of the grill, preparing them as described under "Hamburger Patties." I keep the hot dog side at low heat, and place the hot dogs as close to the outside of the low heat side as possible. I turn them over at 1 or 2 minute intervals, and flip then end for end at least once.

Even so, the hot dogs often get very sincerely done long before the hamburger patties do. When that happens, I take the hot dogs off the grill and have them carried inside.

Next: You've Grilled It, Now Serve It

Copyright © 2005-2010 Brian H. Gill