Ye Olde Oak 8 Hotdogs

The hot dog has been a favourite convenience food of mine for as long as I can remember. When I was a teenager, and my parents worked leaving me to fend for myself food wise in the evenings, a tin of hotdogs was a quick, easy, no fuss meal that I could do myself and that my friends wouldn't turn their noses up. As I got older, I started to favour the frankfurters you can buy in the chiller section, and for many years stopped eating the tinned hotdogs in favour of these. However, a recent decline in finances has led to me having to cut back and buy cheaper alternatives of my favourite products. So, I grabbed a can of these from my corner shop for ...  Read the complete review

With Bonfire night round the corner you will notice supermarkets stocking their shelves with the usual goodies ready for the occasion. Parkin, Toffee Apples and Cinder toffee make their annual appearance and the tins of Hot Dogs get moved to a more prominent position ready to tempt you as your walking by. Being a sucker for such obvious marketing ploys I recently picked up a can of Ye Olde Oak Premium hotdogs and had them for lunch one day last week. A 184g drained weight contain 8 hotdogs and Ye Olde Oak tell us that these are an 'Improved Recipe' you are advised that there are no artificial colours, No GM ingredients and that the hotdogs are made ...  Read the complete review

There are days when I just don't have the time or the incilination to cook nutritious, cheap, healthy meals and sometimes I want to have a blow out without really going to mad on the calories. Nights like this call for Ye Olde Oak Hotdogs in Wholemeal Buns with some low-fat cheese and healthy living ketchup. Ye Olde Oak Hotdogs are provided in an aluminium can and come packaged in salty brine water which is ideal for pouring straight in to a pan and gently heating for a few minutes until the hotdogs are lovely and soft and tender whilst still having a slightly crisp, almost crunchy, outer 'skin. I normally find that I end up cooking mine for around 5 minutes ...  Read the complete review

I have always found that when I have sausage and beans from the same tin (you know the hot dog type) that you have loads of beans and few sausages. For this reason I have for many years just bought beans and a separate tin of sausages. This gives me a higher ratio of sausages - and if a man wants his sausages, he must have his sausages:-) Yesterday was no exception. I was walking along the aisle at my local Asda looking for hot dog sausages, and immediately I saw a choice of about 6 different types. This particular make caught my eye as it was on buy one get one free. The tin is slightly different in design to the one pictured. It is green in colour with a ...  Read the complete review

For some strange and twisted reason, I have a particular liking to this type of 'sausage', the frankfurter style sausage which is coined as a hot dog sausage. This particular brand is one I hadn't tried before, opting instead for whatever has been on Tesco's shelves before. However, I popped into the Co-Op on Sunday and bought a tin of these. Ye Olde Oak Hot Dogs contains 8 of the sausages, in brine, and to cook them couldn't be simpler. The tin tells you to empty the hot dogs into a pan of hot, but not boiling, water, heat gently for 5 minutes and then serve. It's not clear whether you drain on the brine first or not, but I generally do with this type of ...  Read the complete review