My daughter wants me to send her with a hotdog for lunch tomorrow. Don't have a thermos yet, how can I keep it warm until her lunchtime? Doesn't need to be hot, just warm. Was thinking of wrapping in foil after I heat it up but not sure how warm that would keep it. Lunch is around noon.
I plan to get a thermos to send more warm meals this weekend, but she wants it tomorrow! :)
They do have hotdogs at school, but doesn't start until next week and she really wants it tomorrow. Lol
We're not coffee drinkers so no coffee mugs/thermoses either! Haha
I can't think of a way to keep a hot dog warm. Even at home it only stays warm a few minutes. I think I'd tell her that it simply won't work.
Really though, if she wants hot food she needs to eat the hot meal at school.
Nope - I wouldn't do it. It's still hot outside and bacteria can set up really quickly. Being sick from hotdogs that "turn" is SO awful. If it hasn't happened to you, you just don't know.
Sometimes you have to say no for a kid's own good.
just doesn't work that way.
she eats a cold dog, or buys at school.
khairete
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It is UNSAFE to keep food warm. Food needs to be either cold or HOT. Warm is just asking for bacterial contamination. How about she has a hotdog on the grill this weekend instead.
Without a thermos, there is no way. Since hotdogs are already fully cooked, they can be consumed cold. Will your daughter eat a cold hotdog? As long as there is an ice insert, it will be a safe temperature. Is there any chance the school is serving hotdogs for lunch?
I was just going to say heat it and put it in the thermos. lol
Outside of using foil..
Do you have a insulated coffee mug?? You could put it in there.
Okay... the hot-dog... does it have to be in a bun????
If so, then keep the hot-dog and the bun separate. So the bun does not get soggy.
Put the hot-dog in foil. More than 1 layer. Or wrap the hot-dog in layers: foil/paper towel/foil/paper towel/foil.
Then, put the bun in even just saran wrap, or in a container. Separately.
She can, put the hot dog and bun together herself, right?
Or, put the hot-dog only, in a thermos. And the bun separate.
And she can put it together herself at lunch.
Or, if the hot dog does NOT have to be in a bun... (many kids at my kids' school don't even eat the bun, they just want to eat the hot dog itself), THEN... just warm the hot-dog, put that in a thermos or something, and that's it. OR, what some parents do, is they cut up the hot-dog, into bit sized pieces, and put it in a container/thermos, and that's it. Because their kid only eats the hot-dog anyway. Not the bun.
And on the side, just put in a ketchup packet or whatever she eats it with.
OR, if she wants hot-dogs... an alternative would be, those MINI hot-dogs that comes wrapped in a puff pastry or "corn-dog" type "bun." That are sold in stores. Then, you can warm up a bunch of them, put those in a Thermos, and it will be warm for lunch.
I work at my kids' school. MANY kids bring hot-dogs. But hot dogs are also served at school lunch. OR, the parents put the kid's hot-dog in a container. That's it. And then in an insulated lunch bag with blue-ice in it, and the kid eats it at ROOM temperature.
Cook the hotdog in the morning so it's hot AND cooked.
Wrap it tightly in foil. Then double wrap it in foil again.
Send the bun sparately in a splastic baggy or tupperware.
Then put in little bags of ketchup & mustard like they give you at McDonald's drive through.
