Hi, I'm Josh.
I’m Ollie.
And today we are gonna ask the question: Can you improve...
on the hot dog?
We've each prepared our pitch to see if we can improve on the hot dog.
Indeed.
I've been working on this for quite some time.
Josh probably hasn't been working on it for quite as much time.
I've gone simple, you know?
First one. I'm not sure if you should be so excited about.
Don't bash it until you try it.
OK.
- Because - Alright.
My first offering is not a hot dog.
It's a pickle dog.
OK. Yeah.
What if you just want the pickle?
Oh, pre-sliced.
Pre-sliced.
I give you the pickle dog.
I am on board for this.
Don't you wanna know how that tastes?
I wanna know how it tastes.
I can imagine rich people loving this.
You know?
Like you go somewhere and they're like,
"You know, there's this new thing it's called a pickle dog."
"Oh, it's lovely. So much more flavour, oh my gosh."
Grass-fed... pickle.
Grass-fed pickle!
This feels risky.
- This feels risky. - But we’re living on the edge.
I'm really hungry. Alright, cheers.
Ah, that was the weirdest cheers I've ever done in my entire life.
Pickle dog.
That tastes almost exactly how you would expect it to taste.
It's kinda good though.
If you're on a low carb diet.
Right?
It's got a really satisfying texture.
It, offset against the, I mean, there's no other word for it
the flaccidness of the wiener.
Did I improve on a normal hot dog?
- No. - Ok.
Let's see what your first offering is, shall we?
Hot dog is a form of food that you don't want it to literally be
what it says it is.
-And so I present to you the World's first -There better not be a dog underneath there.
literal
hot dog.
It's gonna work, it's gonna work.
It held itself for such a short amount of time.
Oh my gosh, what is that?
Are you sure this is a good idea? Oh my gosh, oh stop, stop.
It's a hot dog.
Ah, it's hot!
Yeah of course it's hot, it's metal and you were just flamethrowering it.
Just give me the flipping spoon!
Good job.
How long did it take to actually build that?
Too long.
Did I improve on a hot dog?
Definitely not.
No, I didn't.
So I've got high hopes for this one.
Yeah, I went a little bit experimental with my first offering.
I thought the second one, need to reel it in a little bit.
Let's go with a tried and tested recipe.
Good, me too.
These are affectionately called around the world, danger dogs!
Or LA hotdogs.
And it is simply a bacon-wrapped hot dog.
That uses not just any old frankfurter wiener
but, in this case, a proper English traditional sausage.
We've got it oven-roasted and then fried for a bit of crispiness, as well.
OK. Let's do it.
Lets see if this is better than the standard hot dog.
That's what I'm talking about.
- It's good. - It's very good.
I wouldn't say it's an improvement on the hot dog, though.
I mean, I'm improving on the most basic hot dog I'm not improving on all possible hot dogs.
Well, maybe you and I have different ambitions then.
On no, where are you going next?
We are going to break new ground today.
Oh my gosh.
Why do you have a drill?
What flavour do you want? Strawberry, bubblegum, banana, and vanilla rose.
I guess, bubblegum?
Are you ready for this?
I'm just gonna say, I'm going to be a little disappointed
if you're not gonna insert a frankfurter on the end of this
and wrap candy floss around it.
Get me a frankfurter.
I thought that was where you were going and I was kinda getting excited.
This is great. I'm humble enough to admit
that you've made a huge contribution here.
So you're doing a candyfloss dog?
Oh my gosh, why is that such a disturbing image?
-This is gonna be incredible, Josh. -This is a candy floss dog.
I'm so proud of us.
The teamwork.
Oh, what in good God's creation is that?
Oh, no, no. Something's going terribly wrong.
- I'm going manual. - Manual?
Switch to manual controls.
Oh my gosh, it's working, the manual shift has actually worked.
It's working!
Science! Look at this.
How do I eat this? I mean you can't see it, it's hidden, it's literally hidden inside.
OK, I'm gonna go for it, I'm gonna try and get some sausage.
How is it?
This is the weirdest feeling. It's cold, it's cold.
That does not work, even in the slightest.
Let's just move on.
Yeah, I feel like we really hyped that up.
We did but it's immediately obvious that we made a huge mistake.
For my final one.
Come at me, bro, with your...
wiener.
Oh gosh.
You've probably had a grilled cheese sandwich.
But have you ever had a grilled cheese hot dog?
Does adding cheese to things ever not make them better?
Candy floss, maybe?
Shut up!
I've pre-prepared a garlic butter concoction.
- On the outside? - on the outside
because we're gonna grill the bun.
Hot dog fits nicely in the bun.
The key ingredient is cheese so we're gonna go heavy on the cheese. You ready?
Let's let it cook for a little bit.
And then we've just gotta get that cheese to melt.
You know what we need here? Flamethrower, Ollie.
Oh my gosh, he's going straight in,
- OK, that's enough. No, too much. - We gotta brown it.
Is that enough? I think that's good.
It's gonna be hot, it will try and melt the inside of your mouth out.
Careful, careful. Nice.
How's that?
That's good.
Pass the pickle.
You're gonna put a pickle inside?
This is an incredible creation.
- A bit of ketchup. - A grilled cheese dog.
Get involved.
That is a complete winner. Wow, we've polished that off.
We've done a lot of hot dogs.
We now have my final effort.
I had to order ingredients for this specially.
I wasn't actually sure whether it was legal to order.
This is my contribution to the question:
Can we improve...
the humble hotdog?
Why's it look like a turd? What is that?
It's a hot dong.
What?
It's a bull's penis.
This morning I started to cook this
and I was looking up online I had no idea whether you could eat it.
So I was like can you eat bull's penis?
Why did you order it before finding that out?
Well, I got things to do I didn't have time to read all the fine print.
What are you talking about? Things to do?
Firstly, almost no information online about how to prepare to eat…
Shocking.
You'd think! The Internet's a big place!
That's what it looked like when I started it.
We can't show that.
Then, I had to boil it.
Oh my gosh!
I'm scarred.
And then a bunch of slag came up to the top.
What the frick is slag?
Then when I started cooking it, it coiled up.
And I can't get my hot dog visual, which was the whole point!
Oh my gosh!
Why?
Why have you made it worse?
If I take a big bite, will you take a big bite?
No!
I really don't want to do this.
Why? Why? Why have you?
This is not JOLLY.
This is not very JOLLY at all.
I don't think I'll be able to get through it with my teeth.
What happened?
I just hit my gag reflex.
You just tasted it for the first time, didn't you?
Oh, dear!
If you can't swallow it, all bets are off.
He has gone bright pink in the face.
He's just left the room.
All swallowed!
- You swallowed an entire tarantula. - I did.
And you've swallowed all number of things,
and to see you literally, physically not be able to swallow…
I really don't want to vomit.
You absolutely should not eat that!
I would say the hot dog is not improvable.
That's been 'Can You Improve on a Hot Dog?'
I think we've proved that it's possible but you can sink a hell of a lot lower.
The pictures you showed me really scarred me.
- I knew the second you showed me that - I don't think we can show them.
- I didn't think I was gonna eat it. - I've got videos, man.
I don't wanna hear that!
Let's wrap this video. Let's wrap it.
Guys, this has been 'Improvements on Hot Dogs'.
In the meantime...
We'll see you JOLLY soon.
See you later.
I feel so sick.