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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please season your burger meat. Just salt is fine but definitely salt. Some black pepper can also be nice -- freshly ground if you have it.

Know how your grill works. Start it when it needs to be started (if using charcoal give yourself 45 minutes or so before you need to be putting the meat on.

Doneness is obviously a matter of preference but most people like a medium doneness so aim for that. You can always leave a couple on longer if someone is squeamish about pink meat.

American cheese is fine but you're welcome to get something better. But offering cheese is nice.

For toppings you should have - at a minimum - lettuce tomato pickle ketchup mustard. Some people like a thinly sliced red onion or - if you want to be fancy - grilled onions. Bacon barbecue sauce mayo etc. are optional but you need to have those first five.

For hot dogs please buy kosher for better quality. Ensure they are all cooked all the way through -- a lot of people who don't eat hot dogs will just throw them on until there is any kind of grill marks but they take a bit longer than that to cook and actually for doneness hot dogs usually taste better if they have a good crispy char on the outside. For toppings offer ketchup and mustard at least (relish onions etc optional).

Toast all the buns. It takes very little time and helps a lot.

Classic sides: baked beans (crock pot so you don't have to turn on the oven) potato salad and chips. We like to put out a crudite platter and a green salad as well.

If you can't handle the forgoing just don't host on the 4th or memorial day. It's okay. Not everyone likes hosting. But if you DO host please do not serve your guests uncooked dogs and unseasoned burger hockey pucks with just ketchup and some sad wilted lettuce and no sides. It's depressing and your guests will wind up having to stop for food on the way home.[/quote]

Thank you for the helpful advice![/quote]

Sock puppeting is tiresome.  There is NOBODY over the age of 21 that doesn't already know the basics of this, and funnily enough, some of this is wrong.  (Hot dogs are already cooked, you can't undercook them)[/quote]

There are tons of people over the age of 21 who don't know this stuff as evidenced by your incorrect belief that it is impossible to undercook a hot dog. Think about it -- if it were not possible to undercoook hot dogs then why would e cook them at all? Just because grill marks are attractive?[/quote]

You cook them because they taste better hot. And grilled. And also because they can have bacteria like similar meats (deli meat, which you are supposed to heat to steaming if you are immunocompromised).

But you cannot undercook them. They are fully cooked. [/quote]

I think you are being pedantic about the word undercooked. Yes hot dogs are cooked when you open the package. But they are not *ready to eat.* Serving a hot dog that you didn't even bother to warm all the way through is gross and a hot dog that is not sufficiently heated can carry gross bacteria. Some people might call that undercooked because they have not been sufficiently cooked to be hot enough to eat. So even though they were cooked out of the package they are still "undercooked."[/quote]

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