Hot Dog Abuse. The Good Kind!

Take a Sahlen’s hot dog, cook it over hot coals, and poke at it, stab it, and slash it as you roll it around on the metal grate.  You end up with a tube steak that has achieved maximum crustiness and smoky savor.  That’s the way it’s done at Ted’s in Tonawanda, NY (a Buffalo suburb).  Hear about these dogs (and the great onion rings and loganberry served alongside them) as Jane and Michael Stern discuss Ted’s with Lynne Rossetto Kasper on The Splendid Table this weekend.  If you miss the radio show you can catch their piece, or the whole show, online.

Check out the Roadfood.com review of Ted’s, where Stephen Rushmore Jr. says: “True Buffalonians can argue passionately over the city's best tasting, name-sake wings or famous beef on weck, but when asked for their first choice for hot-dogs, the answer is a unanimous: TED's.”