Fun In A Bun: How To Make D.C.-Style Spicy Half Smokes

What's in it

9 parts read from its 20 ingredient lines, its title and its method.

Sausage

• Frank or wiener, type not stated “6 jumbo hot dogs”

Bun or wrap

• Plain soft bun “6 hot dog buns”

Cooking

• Grilled from the method

Toppings

• Raw onion “1/2 large white onion”
• Other hot peppers “1 Fresno chili pepper”
• Chili or meat sauce made in the recipe

Sauces and condiments

• Yellow mustard “1 tablespoon Yellow mustard”
• Spicy brown or grainy mustard “1 teaspoon brown mustard seeds”
• Tomato sauce or paste “2 tablespoons tomato paste”

Against the usual Half-smoke

It has 4 of the 5 parts of the usual Half-smoke: chili or meat sauce, any mustard, raw onion and grilled. Not on it: smoked sausage, kielbasa or half-smoke.

Less usual for the style: other hot peppers (in 20% of Half-smoke recipes) and spicy brown or grainy mustard (in 20% of Half-smoke recipes).

A coarse, smoked sausage, usually half pork and half beef, grilled and topped with chili, mustard and chopped onion.