How To Make a Chicago Hot Dog The Right Way

All right, I'm going to show you how to make a Chicago style hot dog, but most importantly, I'm going to show you how we do it and why you should do it the same way. So we're going to take a steam pan, this is fun. They're nice and soft, no issue opening up. I'm going to put a Vienna beef hot dog, that's our hot dog of choice. We're going to put the wet toppings first. We're going to start with the mustard. We're going to do mustard, then we go with relish. The reason why we do the wet toppings first is so the dry toppings can stick to it, kind of keeps it all together like glue. So we're going to do the relish, then onions. We do two slices of tomato. We don't do diced tomato over here, it's slices of tomato, two of them. We tuck them in on the side so it stays together like that. We take a pickle spear, we tuck it in on the other side, lay a couple of squirt peppers on top, a dash of salt. The reason why we do it specifically like this is one, if it's not getting wrapped up, look how beautiful that is. Two, if it is getting wrapped up, it's going to stay together. So a lot of people make them very sloppy, and when you open it up it falls apart. But I'm going to wrap it up, and now naturally it gets smashed because you're wrapping it tight, but when you open it back up, based on the way we put it together, it's still all in one piece. Very easy to eat.