105-Year-Old Hot Dog Recipe! | Walter’s Hot Dog Stand Copycat!

Walter’s Hot Dog Stand was founded by Walter Harrington and his wife, Rose, in 1919 in Mamaroneck, New York. In 1928, hoping to attract new customers, roadside businesses like Walter built a unique pagoda-style roof with ornamental dragons and lanterns covered in copper tiles. I cooked up my Walter’s Hot Dogs using their techniques on my Wildfire Griddle to cook up this historic hot dog! https://wildfireoutdoorliving.com/griddles
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Today I’m bistic barbecue out of Merck New York I’m going to be cooking up Walter’s Hot Dog from Walter’s hot dog stand and when you’re done watching this video if you don’t mind go check out my buddy Tom out of Tom’s Test Kitchen he’s the one that brought this hot dog to my

Attention and he did a video himself let’s get going in 1919 a gentleman by the name of Walter Harrington opened up little hot dog shack on Boston Post Road in the Westchester area Westchester County of New York business was good he was selling a lot of hot dogs a lot of apple

Cider so in 1928 they decided they were going to up their game they built this beautiful kind of pagota shaped building to sell hot dogs from the rest is history generations of walters’s family have been running this business ever since still family-owned and it’s just an awesome story I hope it goes on

Forever kind of seems like it will one of the things that makes their hot dogs kind of unique is the way they’re cooking them but then also they serve up an option of a uh they call it a mustard mix and I actually bought their mustard

Mix bought it off of Amazon it was a little over eight bucks and with prime it was free shipping so that was a decent deal and you can see it’s you know basically with a brown mustard but it’s a lot kind of a more of a beige Hue

Than than the other mustards a spicy Brown mustards you see um so initially I wanted to just make it from scratch I bought a mustard powder that had the same kind a tint to it and I just I wasn’t getting the texture right the texture is a little bit more grainy than

Than this is um the ingredients in this are very basic when you look at the ingredient list basically what it boils down to is spicy brown mustard and sweet pickle Rish and then some spices so I’m just going to make a simple hack I already made uh some of this earlier

Just testing it and although it’s a little bit different in appearance because this is spicy Brown mustard has you know the the grains in there that this you really don’t see the grains in this the flavor I think is pretty spoton and um so this is I bought this brand

Just simply because of the color I I think it’s actually made in in Canada so I have the spicy brown mustard and I am not measuring anything here or this this is actually stone ground mustard and I have her sweet relish sweet sweet pickle relish and you’ll see in this relish

There are little pieces of red bell pepper which is on the ingredients list and I’m going to put in a couple scoops of that and then some of the juice give this a mix so all in all I have about three of these plastic teaspoons in here and just a little bit of

Paprika get that stirred in and this is about about 1 half of a cup of the mustard and probably a/4 teaspoon of that paprika and that’s all there is to it easy stuff let’s get cooking these dogs so I actually purchased a pack of 12 hot dogs from Walters and it’s facilitated

Through the shipment is fulfilled through uh gold belly the smallest quantity I could purchase was 12 of these hot dogs you can see diameter wise they’re pretty small hot dogs and they’re also very light color now these are a blend of of pork ve and beef and I

Think you know the ve V’s usually pretty light color I think that’s why um but because hot dogs with a ve ve added are are very difficult to find I wanted to buy them from the source to to get the real experience and um I’ll tell you

This these were not cheap um purchasing them through again through gold belly and shipment out here to San Diego I’m almost embarrassed to say but this was like a $70 purchase right here let’s cook these dogs so I’m using the Wildfire griddle today this side I have

On medium high this side I have on low this side will be used mainly for keeping those buns nice and warm and toasty so one of the unique things about this cook is we’re using butter I have clarified butter I’m laying down here these dog these dogs have almost an

Octagon shape to them so basically we’re going to cook one side get them nice and toasted flip them toast the other side then we’re going to actually split these hot dogs just get a little this butter over here don’t want too much butter on this side here Buns Down okay now what I’m going to do is take this hot dog and split it right down the middle Here At these face down beautiful color on those all right let’s build build these and here we are now we’re just going to dress them I’m going to alternate I’m going to use some of their mustard mix and then mine see how I did so with this in the bottle here when they’re applying

It there they have a big kind of a container and they’re just using a spreader knife but I’m going to go ahead and just lay a bead down the middle there I’ll take a spreader I’m kind of flattening them out because that’s the way they look there

Very flattened out this hot dog here here that cooked meat’s got a gorgeous color take some of that homemade spread that I made just lay it on there’s and I’m using two different spreader knives for anybody that may be wondering and mine two of these hot dogs are for my

Son and my wife by the way and here we are Walter’s Hot Dog from Walter’s hot dog stand in marck New York let’s give give these a go so this will be theirs first and you can see like I said they’re flat they the way they roll them

Up and I guess because of the you know the buns are fairly steamy from The Heat Of The Griddle they end up very flat and then of course the hot dog itself is very flat because it’s been butterflied I guess really good hot dog is really good the dog itself

They’ll also make a double where they stack two of these butterflied hot dogs on top of one another um that that meat though in the hot dog is really good it has a slightly you know a sweeter flavor than like an all beef hot dog there’s

Mine like I said it doesn’t look exactly like their mustard spray spread but it sure does taste a lot like it I mean they spread you know it’s very mustard forward spicy mustard forward and it has uh you know the the definite sweet pickle relish uh in there as

Well this is really good I I like this hot dog and we used to do these uh kind of split hot dogs every once in a while at home when I was growing up you get that more of that myard reaction you know on that flat surface it’s really

Good I truly believe that my version of that sauce is a very acceptable copycat like I said just little differences in the looks um that being said there there’s if you wanted the real thing it’s you know eight bucks and some change from Amazon so it’s not that

Expensive but it’s good and as far as the hot dogs I mean these definitely taste you know let me try the piece of the dog it’s a really good dog do I think that that’s necessary to have a really good tasting hot dog experience no I mean I think any

Highquality dog would would be great with this technique it is kind of cool using the dogs they’re using but boy oh boy at least for me it was not cheap I’m sure you know state closer to New York than I mean I’m at the complete opposite end of the country here

So this is good I had fun learned something new so it’s a win-win I hope anyway guys thanks for stopping by keep those suggestions coming in I’m getting tons of hot dog uh requests and I appreciate that if you’re not subscribed please at least consider hitting that sub button ringing the notification Bell

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