April 1, 2015
Well it’s been a long road but my newest invention is finally hitting the market in May.
However, readers of Hot Dog Profits can get a free sample pack now, as I need product testers to provide feedback for my marketing team.
Problem: Hot dogs take up a lot of room on a hot dog cart.
Solution: Stack-a-Dogs: The dehydrated flat hot dogs that stack easily in your cooler.
Stack-a-Dogs dehydrated and frozen.
Stack-a-Dogs take up just 1/10th the space of a cylindrical hot dog while in storage, but once you add them to hot water or a steamer, they reconstitute. All it takes is 5 minutes to regain their full, plump roundness.
Partially reconstituted Stack-a-Dogs after 2 minutes in hot water.
Once they are fully re-hydrated you can throw them on a grill or flat top to put the sear marks on them that customers love.
Stack-a-Dog after 6 minutes in hot water. Ready to serve.
This is just the ticket for those with small hot dog carts, or for festival vendors who need to store one to two thousand hot dogs for multi-day events.
Consumer Stack-a-Dogs will be available in local stores, frozen in decks of 12, 24, and 48.
Stack-a-Dog Pro is the same flat hot dogs but they come in cases of 144.
Both will be available for purchase beginning May 15th, but today I need product testers. You don’t need a hot dog cart to be a tester. Stack-a-Dogs work just fine on a home stove.
I will send you a free deck of 12 Stack-a-Dogs on the condition that you come back to this page and give me your honest opinion in the comments section. I need your feedback for the creation of our advertising campaigns.
One sample deck per person please.
If you would like to be a Stack-a-Dog evaluator, please click here.
If you own a hot dog cart and would like to get on the waiting list to purchase Stack-a-Dog Pro cases, please click here.
Thanks for your help!
-Steve
We have lots of room on our cart, with the extra storage we added on April 1st they will not be used by us. Thanks anyway
a huge improvement over the powdered version (just add water) I have been using.
Indeed.
Yes, I agree!
Steve, lol you got us again even though that would have been a great idea. Can you imagine selling cases of that product to all the preppers out there! To bad it’s April 1st and not May 15th.
You’re on to me Bob.
Wooooo! All I have to say is THANK YOU STEVE! The ” beta test went really well! I have already pre ordered 15 cases! Once again thanks!
Thanks Troy!
Lol! I like the idea though! Hmmm..might work.
Nice one! You had me at dehydrated, hahaha
Steve, thanks for speaking with me on the phone a few minutes ago. I am so glad that you are going to allow my entire neighborhood to be evaluators of the dogs at our spring block party next month. I have an old school bus that I have converted into a legal food truck and eatery, and we will be handing out those stack a dogs to our neighbors and friends all day long! Get ready for lots of feedback on the stack a dogs, Steve!
Nice!
It is 6 a.m. and barely sipping the first cup of coffee and reading this. You Got Me Steve. Good one. Have a wonderful day.
You too Bill!
The packages I saw online had Stack a Bun included. When you put them in the steamer they expand to full size. The buns come with or without dry mustard already on them. Great for fairs and festivals!
The buns still need work.
awesome product already tried the first package you sent me. wrapped them with bacon first then put them in the steamer when they swell up the bacon is tight everybody loves them. Thanks again. Love it.
I hate loose bacon.
Hi, Chris from COB DOG’S
I knew you were working on this and having been a taste tester for you I cant wait to use them on my cart.
Save space, save money? AND Delicious I’m all in!!!
Thanks Steve!
Awesome Chris!
LOL! Almost! ????????
Sounds good Steve. I’m close to perfecting stackable canned soda. Imagine, a small 6 pack cooler would be able to hold over a hundred cans of soda. I’ll let you know when I’m ready to market it.
John Peoples
Spa City Dogs
I like it!
Hi Steve
Received your package yesterday… the only problem is that my dawgs don’t like water!
Regards,
Al Alvord
Weenie Dawgs
“Not the biggest dawg… Just the best!”
Can’t grill them flat, they need water to plump.
love the space and weight savings of not having to drag around full dog packs
although am waiting to see what the health dept. has to say about reusing so
much water!!
“sell em’ all”
Shouldn’t be an issue but keep me posted.
“Best thing since sliced Bread” No longer applies.
It’s the future!!!!!.
Thanks!
Thanks Stevo! These will go great with the cases of dehydrated water I’m keeping in my prepper “bug out” stash. ;~)
Hey Steve!
What a space saver! Three times the inventory stored means I don’t run out before then end of ANY festival of the Society of Creative Anachronism (and you know how hungry those folks can be…they WILL go all medieval on you!). Added bonus…I tried rehydrating them in beer instead. WINNER!!
Beer! Brilliant!
I’m holding out. I don’t know if I should be a tester. The last time I helped test a new product was with that time travel machine. I’m still stuck in 2015 and need to get back to 2312… I miss my replicator
Say hi to the future when you get back.
Heck with rehydrating them……HOT DOG JERKY! Sellem’ by for $1.00 a piece
Hermano,
Thanks for letting me try this new and innovative product, I tried them out yesterday and the soldiers liked them but it did kind of reminded them of the dehydrated food rations they get in the field. Thanks though, hopefully others had a much more positive feedback.
Arrr har har har har !!!
Dehydro dog !!
Does it shrink if you throw it in the pool ??
Arrrrr har har har !!!
1St Mate Jim.
OMG!
I love it!
Thanks for the samples Steve I know the entire gulf coast of Mississippi will love your stack-a-dogs. Tastes just like sausage but smaller storage.
Cool!
I’m very Leery on a day such as this, my guru of the dogs.
You are wise David.
Sorry to say you have a unexpected design flaw. The case I got was in the fridge I lost power and didn’t realize it got hot inside of fridge dogs expanded and blew out sides splattering approximately 10 customers with bits of hot dog not sure if I have insurance covering that
Will let you know
Your humidity was set too high. Got to keep them dry!
Are these the same ones that NASA developed for the space program a few years back? I heard that on the space station they couldn’t keep the Russiains out of them. The space/weight savings on the Space Shuttle alone were worth a small fortune. I guess all in all it was worth the 84 million they spent to develop them as a product and now like so many things from the government we get the benefit.
Hi Ron,
Actually these are not the same as the NASA dogs. We developed these on our own. I did try the NASA product at Space Camp in January but I think Stacks are even tastier.
Best invention ever and super tasty! Fast food peeps better guard their condiment packets because I am going to be living off hot dogs slathered in mustard, relish, and ketchup while on the trail!
Glad you like them Jodi!
Hey Steve,
How many to a lb.? I hold about 12 lbs. In my cart. How much more could I get out of this?
You should be able to get 60 pound on the same physical space Robin.
Steve.
While your Idea was great. Unfortunately the dogs seem to have lost something I just can’t put my finger on.
But you are the Steven Hawking of Hot Dogs. Keep up the great ideas, we all appreciate and admire your inspirations.
I don’t know what I did but my stack of dogs exploded. It was a mess, carnage everywhere. I think I had the heat to high. Boy you should have seen the people running, and the little kids screaming, and crying. I felt guilty for a minute. Chappy
Like to try thanks Steve yours Chris Duet
Man, what a product! Unfortunately my ex wife ate 10 of them and then drank hot tea. The gastric emanations were worse than a chili cookoff, and for the near future, all pics of her will need to be aerial shots! Due to this delicate situation, I have engaged SeaWorld to help transport her. Fortunately, she is still just 1/4 the circumference of my ex mother in law, so no renovations to the house will be required!!
Yikes!
I marinated them in Wolf Brand no bean chili for 24 hours. Really unbelievable taste.
Also did a sweet and sour version using grape jelly and cider vinegar. Incredible. The dogs actually plumped up and turned purple…a real hit with the kids.
The best was the hot dog stir fry, just scoring the dogs along the lines that you designed flat to begin with, added bean sprouts, water chestnuts, and some tamari sauce, served in a bowl over smashed up fortune cookies. I can’t believe paid $4.01 for it and loved it.
Super inventive Jeff! I may have to hire you in my development kitchen.
Steve,
Thanks for the promo pack, tried them out but sales for the day turned out really flat!
Jim
Ha!
This was incredible. With the space I saved I was able to stay stocked and I fired my runner. Thanks.
Good for you Roan!
Hahaha, I knew it !
would love to hand these out to the customer that wants to know how many calories are in hot dogs, cause I could say theses are half the calories of other dogs since they start out flat.
Nice selling point to the woman. heehee
Right on!
These are a fantastic product. I cooked some of them on my grill before reconstuting them and when I re-grilled them I got cross marks for a diamond effect.
Dave
P.S. Instead of water, use a can of Beer or Coke or Gingerale and a couple of cloves of garlic and they are really deelicious.
I love the chilies cheese ones and they hardly take up any room at all
A revolutionary idea ,good taste ,one less cooler to lug around.
You could sell me ANYTHING Steve. THANK YOU for the laugh!!
The really FUNNY THING is I had a dream about this very thing! LOL!!
😀
That’s funny!
Wow!!! I’m trying to invent a package of 52 dehidrated buns that come in a pack the size of a deck of cards.
Wow!!! I was trying to invent a package of 52 buns that come in pack the size of a deck of cards.
I was traveling in Germany some years ago and, while visiting Frankfurt, I saw a similar product in a local butcher shop. I was so impressed by the idea that I bought an extra suitcase and packed it full with these novelties. When I arrived home, I wondered just what in the world I was going to do with all these flat weenies. Then it hit me. I would throw a giant block party and treat my friends and neighbors to a weenie roast.
It’s important for me to mention at this point that I live in Oregon where the state motto is “If you don’t like the weather here, just wait a minute.” So, there I was on the day of the big event. I had the water bath for reconstituting all set up and my grill was at perfect temperature. The guest were beginning to arrive.
And then it happened. It was April 1st and we got hit hard by an early spring cloud burst. Although it only lasted 2 or 3 minutes, the downpour was torrential and the rain came down in sheets. The barbecue was dowsed and the drenched party guests could only look on in dumbstruck wonder as the once neatly stacked hot dogs stared to plump and came pouring out of the holding pan like so much movie popcorn.
In the ensuing mayhem, the party guests started running around not knowing quite what to do and they began to slip on the sausages that were rolling across the patio. And when our three dogs, Larry, Moe and Curly, caught wind of what was happening, they got in on the action. It was a scene straight out of a Laurel and Hardy movie with people, animals and hot dogs flying every where.
In short, I’m going to pass on the free samples. I still have disquieting memories of trying to serve such a product at large events.
Thanks anyway,
Dale
I hope no one got hurt!
A few bumps and bruises, but no one was seriously hurt… and no law suits were brought against me. However I was extremely unpopular in the neighborhood for a while after that… except among all the dogs and cats. It’s hard getting smooshed weenie residue out of a wooden deck. It took a couple of weeks, a lot of elbow grease and about 10 lbs of TSP. Finally, I got it cleaned up, my neighbors forgave me and things returned to normal. I have since moved from that neighborhood and was on good terms with my former neighbors. I am mostly able to put the whole ugly incident behind me.
I’m not saying that Stack-A-Dog is a bad idea… in fact, I think it’s quite a good one. I just don’t think I’m ready for such advanced food technology until I get proper training in the handling of this product. Will you be offering any tutorials for klutzes like me?
Nope. You’re on your own Dale, lol.
omg I can’t believe I’m just hearing/seeing this post…are these stack dogs still available and how are they selling with the slingers who are using them?
I’m definitely interested in these! someone let me know the scoop on sales and taste…
are they footlongs or regular size dogs?
thanks