Dad’s Hot Dog Sauce
5 pounds hamburger
2 – 46 ounce cans tomato juice
5 teaspoons salt
3 large onions, diced
salt for the onions
1/2 cup chili powder
1 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup sugar
1 can tomato paste
Place hamburger meat, one can of tomato juice, and salt in a large kettle.  Mix together with your hands, as if making a meatloaf. The meat should be mushy. Cook over medium heat to gently bubbling. Simmer until the meat is no longer pink. Stir often so it doesn’t stick.
While the hamburger is cooking, place onions, salt, and 1/2 cup of water in a sauce pan and cook until almost tender. Do not overcook or the onions will be mushy. Set aside, but do not drain the liquid off of the onions.
Once the hamburger is done, drain the grease off of the hamburger.  Return the hamburger meat to your kettle. Add in the chili powder, black pepper, and sugar. Stir and mix these in really well. Add the onions with the water and about half of the other can of tomato juice and the tomato paste. Stir until all of this is well incorporated.
Cook gently until thickened enough for your hot dog sauce. It will continue to thicken a little as it cools. 
This pairs well with
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42 Comments
Not so secret is it?
Love your shirt! I am from WV to. The southern part. I'm gonna try your recipe since it looks and sounds delicious.
Oh My Goodness! Melissa’s “YUCK” at the very end of the video about eating hotdogs was absolutely HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You sold me! Thank you West Virginia. Yummy 😊
I use ketchup and worcestershire sauce
What you call it depends on where you’re from. We call it chili and we call the soupy kind, chili beans. It doesn’t make anyone wrong.
At the hot dog stand I used to work at, we used a French Wisp to mush up the hamburger while it was cooking.
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Our home town DQ used to have the best chili sauce on their hotdogs but their supplier stopped making it and I haven't eaten one since… only I ordered a chili bun no hotdog ❤❤.
Brother we do it the same here in North Carolina gotta love the “all the way” dog
I don't trust anybody who says they don"t like a good hot dog
no, no its really not the only way,… a potato masher does just as good as ones hands can, or you could use electric "beaters", lol,…. interesting recipe though. Im gonna try a few things from it for sure.
Beautiful!
Batch…is…tooo…small.
Yummy !!!
tip: take some of the tomato juice and put it in the empty can of tomato paste if you have to add more.. let it swish around and get the last bits out of the can! Looks grubbing bro
Man that looks crazy good! I’m on it!
Looks amazing, the lady is so dumb to not try it!
Interesting, I'll have to try on my smoked hot dogs and being a believer of cumin, I'll probably add that in.
Thanks for sharing!
Well thank god you didn’t ruin it with beans
That is what is known as a WV hot dog!
When I was growing up you could tell what half of the state you hailed from by whether or not you ate slaw on your hot dog!!
Northern half, no slaw.
Southern half, slaw!!
When I moved to north central WV to teach in the early '70s we had an end of year cook out and I volunteered to bring the slaw. They were all bewildered why.
But after I fixed my hot dog others tried it and I converted a good many!!
Looks good but at my house the chili we eat is more like your sauce than a soup. In fact my children eat their chili on butter bread. the only thing your sauce doesn't have in it is green peppers. Might just have to make a batch of that sauce for the next family picnic. PS: I like my dogs a little, as my hubby says, burnt. lol
You lost me at onions….
Cumin
Love your Wva t-shirt, I was born in Huntington and lived in Barbousville.
Love your west virginia shirt I'm from west virginia
I’m like you Tom I like my hotdogs grilled or fried. Has to have that char on them!
God made our hands and we need to use them . Man made a nail brush for finicky people . I would not worry about what others think . There is also rubber gloves. Thanks for all you do and sharing wonderful recipes. God Bless .
Oh how I wish I had one of those dogs . That is exactly how I have ALWAYS made mine . Can’t wait to make that sauce. ❤️
Dude, you rock! Can’t wait to try this!
Not all Hotdogs are created equal. 95% of major brand suck.
Hot Dog Chili by any other name is Hot Dog Chili. There, Fixed it for you. A Bowl of Chili eaten with a spoon is not Hot Dog Chili. A Hot Dog with Hot Dog Chili is finger food.
I can’t wait to make this! Thanks for sharing this recipe with us. I am curious, how would V8 juice work instead of plain tomato juice?
Proper ratio is 1 teaspoon salt per pound of meat. 5 teaspoons of salt is correct.
This is weird meat on meat. I think I am with Melissa yuk.
I beg to differ. "Hot dog chili" IS "Hot dog sauce." Calling it "sauce" may jive with your world view, but the rest of the world calls it "chili." No, not a bowl of chili, nor that aberration, chili with beans. It is the type of food called, "hot dog chili." Calling it sauce just sounds weird. I look forward to making the recipe.
Thank you for this! I will most definitely be trying it this weekend. And I'm looking forward to trying it with deer, elk, and bison too. And as one who likes to can I will be making batches to put up. Thanks again, and God bless y'all
Love the shirt! WV native here! Really enjoy your stories with the recipes…makes them personal, and I have no doubt taste better!
Tom the resin I waothat
Tom that was the peanut butter and cornflake candy recipe
You say it's Hot Dog Sauce & not Chili but continually call it Chili?! 🤔
I live in WVA. We love our hot dogs the same way. Delicious