To make hot dogs, butchers at Geier’s break down and grind whole cuts of beef and pork before putting the meat in the sheep casings and then smoking the links 400 pounds at a time.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and that could apply to how hot dogs are made. If you really want to know what the casings are made of, these are the options.

Natural Casing: The best hot dogs look a bit like a sausage -- with a natural casing made of pork or lamb. "So when you bite into it, it snaps," says Barry Nemerow, co-owner of The Weiner's Circle ...

Dominic Armato recommends 12 hot dogs to grill at your next barbecue, ... Best Pork Hot Dog: ... Top Dog: Wimmer’s natural-casing wiener is a lean beef-and-pork mix with light smoke and a heavy, ...

Spoiler alert: That signature "snap" usually comes from intestines.

The meat is a smoked, grilled, pork-and-beef mixture in a natural casing that people treat as a sausage, and it may be descended from Southern hot link sausages.

Let's start with some hot dog terms you should know:. Thumann's: High quality pork and beef dogs in a natural casing that provides an excellent snap. These dogs hold up well in the deep fryer ...

Let's start with some hot dog terms you should know:. Thumann's: High quality pork and beef dogs in a natural casing that provides an excellent snap. These dogs hold up well in the deep fryer ...

The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC) estimates that Americans will eat 150 million hot dogs on July 4th alone and while they enjoy many different kinds of hot dogs, ...