How to Make Severed Hot Dog Fingers
Yesterday I posted a picnic bento with a disgusting Halloween themed food: severed hot dog fingers. These nasty looking things are actually quite tasty and Baby Girl had no problem saying, “Can I have another finger?” at our little picnic. First you’ll need some Oscar Mayer weiners. Tear them in half. If you want them to look cut, slice them, but if you want them to look torn off, just break them.
Next, slice each half in half lengthwise. Here’s a picture to show you the different stages:
Cut three shallow slices into the middle of each. To do this quickly, you can line up several fingers and cut across all of them with your knife at once. Next, you’ll need to boil these in a soy sauce and sugar mixture, which will accentuate the slits and darken the fingers. Use 1/2 cup each of water, sugar, and light soy sauce. Bring to a boil and then let them simmer for about 20 minutes.
After they’ve cooled, take a teardrop or oval cutter and gently press down on the rounded end of the hot dogs to make the cut for the fingernail. Then just take a knife and slice skin off the oval/teardrop shape. This forms the fingernail.
Voila! You’ve got yourself some disgusting hot dogs! This would probably also make great Halloween party hors d’oeuvres! If you don’t want to boil them in the sauce, just boil them and then serve with bloody ketchup, though I don’t know how well the lines will show up.
Ingredients
- Oscar Mayer wieners
- 1/2 cup light soy sauce
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Break hot dogs in half and then slice lengthwise.
- Cut three shallow slits into the middle of each hot dog.
- Boil and simmer in the soy sauce, sugar, and water for about 20 minutes. Let cool.
- Press oval or teardrop cutter into tip. Slice off the hot dog skin.
- Optional: Boil without sauce and serve with some bloody ketchup.
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My name is Crystal Watanabe and I'm 32 years old, living in Honolulu, Hawaii with my husband and two children. I have an addictive personality and that's a terrible thing when you're into cute bentos. I own over 200 bento boxes and way too many bento accessories!. 
Oh, so cool! Gross, and yet…. my mouth is watering… I grew up on shoyu vienna sausage. So ONO!
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Hahaha! I make that for lunch on the weekends! A pot of shoyu spam and vienna sausage. We gobble it right up!
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These are hands down (HA!) the best looking hot dog fingers I’ve seen! I love it! I’ll be putting these in my son’s lunch this week for sure. Can you make lots of them and store them for later? Would you just store them in the cooking liquid?
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Hi Heather, I had made more than I needed, so I stored it like you said, in the liquid.
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