The best hot dog chili is not canned chili. Once I started shopping for our first taste test, I realized that hot dog chili (or sauce) is a chili genre.
What’s the difference? Hot dog chili is typically bean-free, less lumpy, and like a puree (mmmmm…pureed meat).
If you like 7-Eleven dispenser chili, you'll like the greatest canned chili for hot dogs.
Before our first hot dog chili taste test, I didn't understand people love chili dogs.
Readers absolutely slammed me for not included their regional chili brand.
Because I'm a people pleaser, I tried to get most of the brands mentioned in the comments for our second hot dog chili taste test, excluding the hard-to-find ones.
The greatest hot dog chili makes a gas station dog or Coney taste good. When you crave chili dogs, grab a can of the best hot dog chili sauce we found in two taste tests.