Hotdog Straw

The Original Hotdog Straw

5 Minute Crafts has this absurd hack where they use a raw hotdog (they call it a sausage, and to be perfectly honest, I couldn't tell you the difference) as a wine straw after drilling a hole in it. I decided to recreate this. I cooked a Teton Water's Ranch hotdog rather than leaving it raw. Drinking from raw meat sounds like a good way to get sick somehow.

I also substituted a metal straw for the drill they used in the video to remove the core of the hotdog. Using a drill the way they did looked pretty dangerous, and I want to keep my fingers, though using a straw to create a worse version of one is a bit circular and silly. These sorts of hacks are not designed to be thought about anyhow. The hotdog was a bit... hotdog-like, and it was difficult to push the straw through, especially around the midpoint where there were a few fork holes in the hotdog from the grilling process that started leaking meat juice as the straw was inserted.

I wound up poking through the side instead of the other end, but nobody's judging me on my hotdog straw-making skills.

I then used it to drink cranberry juice (100% Ocean Spray) because wine is disgusting. The hotdog certainly tasted a bit like a hotdog. Because of the fork holes, I needed to plug the sides to create proper suction.

Ultimately this straw only worked for a few seconds. It was ineffective, to be frank. Perhaps it would have worked better if I had done things differently, but I'm not convinced hotdogs are designed to be straws at all.