Food Network Program: Ham on the Street

[thewayne]

Recommended. It's a half hour program, the guy is really funny. The first one that I saw was on hot dogs. He decided to "core" a bunch of dogs and stuff them with various things, so he went to a hardware store and they made a bunch of attempts at coring, few of them successful. The first was to drive a rod through it, it had problems with accuracy and the fact that it didn't remove material from the inside of the dog. Then they tried a drill with a long bit. That chewed up the inside of the dog nicely but didn't remove enough material. Finally they found a thin enough metal tube that removed enough material, except they now had said tube filled with hot dog meat: they quickly found the best solution was using a syringe and popping out the plug with a blast of air.

Finally the dogs were stuffed with ketchup, chili's, bleu cheese, perhaps mustard and mayo. The reactions from the eaters was quite positive, I'm interested in trying the bleu cheese one. Or perhaps a ketchup/BBQ sauce.

The other show that I've seen had to do with late-night dining and insomnia. It included Rice Krispie treats that contained a few tablespoons of coffee, bowling in the frozen food aisle with quart cartons of milk and frozen turkeys, and testing hospital staff to see if they could tell whether coffee was decaf or regular.

It seem to be paired with Good Eats, it makes a good double-header.