The Best Homemade Hamburger & Hot Dog Buns

Homemade Hot dog and Hamburger Buns are worth the extra time it takes to make them. Living at the ranch, you just can’t pop out and buy the ingredients that you need. If I don’t have a cake mix on hand, then by golly, I still make that cake.  If we want pizza or Chinese food, we buy a book and learn how to make that too.

Homemade Hot Dog and Hamburger Buns will be a hit!

One of the ways that I learned to cook was to make the most ignored, commonly purchased foods from scratch. Crackers, mayonnaise, ketchup, sausage… You name it, I have experimented with it. The only thing I have never made from scratch is soy sauce or tofu. However, we don’t see too many soybeans in our local harvests. I will simply put soy sauce and tofu my list of items that I just toss into the grocery cart and move on.

Excellent burgers require excellent buns

Homemade Hot Dog and Hamburger Buns seem to be an item that we just toss into the cart also. Howver, wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy the standard home grilled burger with an uncommonly delicious home made bun? Count me in.

Different Buns, Same Bun Recipe

This recipe is very versatile, and can be used for both homemade hot dog and hamburger buns . There are 4 different ways you can divide the dough:

1. Make only hamburger buns – divide the entire bulk of the dough at the second rising into 10 portions (about 4 oz (113 gr) per portion
2. Make only hot dog buns – divide the entire bulk of the dough at the second rising into 20 portions (about 2 oz (56 gr) per portion
3. Make hamburger sliders  – divide the entire bulk of the dough at the second rising into 20 portions (about 2 oz (56 gr) per portion
4. Make sliders and hot dogs – divide the entire bulk of the dough at the second rising into 20 portions (about 2 oz (56 gr) per portion, and make 10 sliders and 10 hot dogs

I chose to make the last option, and made sliders and hot dogs. Granted I had a fancy hot dog bun pan that I used, which shaped the rolls very well. As for the slider rolls, I simply rolled them in my hands until they were nicely rounded, and placed them on a parchment lined baking pan.

With the hamburger buns, try to space them apart so that they don’t touch while baking, for a better shape.

For best results, make HOmemade Hot Dog and Hamburger Buns in the morning before your evening barbecue, because the idea is for them to be as fresh as possible. The will be noticeably more dense than store bought rolls, but this is real bread!