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Cheesy Bacon Ultimate Dogs

"This is a fun and easy way to amp up your hot dogs for the grill with some cheese, bacon, and a few other classic hot dog topping ingredients! These come together quickly and are ready in no time. They go great with all your favorite BBQ side dishes: corn on the cob, pasta salad, baked beans, watermelon, etc."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Cheesy Bacon Ultimate Dogs

Why it works: Mustard and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 560 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cheesy Bacon Ultimate Dogs

4 hot dogs
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

163Calories
10 gProtein
13 gFat
1 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Hot Dognot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mustard + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Mustard + cheddar cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together708 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Cheddar cheese + dilltop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together133 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, cheddar cheese):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Celeryfits about as well
  3. Dillthe original
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, cheddar cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.