Guy Fieri created anapple pie hot dog for the MLB's "Field of Dreams" game on Thursday.- The wild dish features a hot dog running down the middle, plus bacon jam and apple mustard sauce.
- I tried the apple pie hot dog with Fieri on Zoom and was shocked at how much I loved it.
My mother always said she could instantly tell when I was lying as a kid because the guilt would be all over my face.
It's important I tell you this because you might think I'm crazy with what I'm about to say next.
I tried Guy Fieri's apple pie hot dog, and I liked it. Actually, I loved it. I really, really loved it.
Fieri joined me on Zoom as I tasted his new creation, and told me all about how he made the most American dish of all time.
Guy Fieri's apple pie hot dog was inspired by a baseball game
It was Chevrolet who called up the
The game featured a showdown between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox in Dyersville, Iowa, where the classic 1989 baseball movie was filmed.
In honor of the game, Chevrolet wanted to create a stadium snack inspired by its 1970s jingle that went "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet." And they decided Fieri was the perfect chef for the job.
"Chevy said, 'Well we've got the baseball going on, we've got the Chevy going on, this apple pie and hot dog - how can we make that go together?'" Fieri recalled. "And I'm like, that is the craziest thing I've ever heard."
"I mean, I had to check my phone," he added. "Someone's pranking me right now."
To bring the dessert to life, Fieri had to completely change the concept of an apple pie
"I was like, OK, I got it. Let's treat the apple pie filling as a condiment less than a big center of the pie," he told me.
The structure is similar to McDonald's classic rectangular apple pie, but with a hot dog running down the middle.
Fieri's dish features pie crust dough, apple pie filling, an all-beef frank, and apple pie spice, along with his apple mustard sauce and bacon jam.
The "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives" star told me he wanted to create a dish that people could still make in their own homes without spending a lot of time in the kitchen.
"You don't have to make the pie crust, you can buy pie crust, you can buy some apple pie filling, and a really good hot dog that you love," Fieri said. "Make the bacon jam, make the apple mustard. In 25 minutes, your family can have this American experience."
I tried the apple pie hot dog in front of Fieri himself
Chevrolet sent me the ingredients for the apple pie hot dog, as well as a premade one.
Before I hopped on Zoom with Fieri, I threw the premade apple pie hot dog into the oven for 10 minutes as instructed and made my apple pie mustard while it baked. The
Now, reader, I have to confess, I didn't exactly have high expectations for a hot dog stuffed into an apple pie. I'm not really into hot dogs in the first place, and how could you mess with pie?
But then I took the apple pie hot dog out of the oven and it smelled, well, amazing. "Maybe this won't be so bad after all," I thought to myself.
Fieri then instructed me to drizzle some of my apple pie mustard on top, along with the bacon bits.
"You can never have enough bacon," I told him as I prepared the dish.
"It's so interesting to be having this experience with you and being able to hear you and you can hear me and not the alarm," he said with a laugh, referring to the time just a few months before when we made his ultimate grilled cheese sandwich over Zoom - only to have my smoke detector go off six times in the middle of his lesson.
Fieri then recommended that I cut the apple pie hot dog in half and take my first bite from the middle instead of the end.
"That first bite you get right there is going to be the apple pie filling, the bacon jam, the crunchy bacon on the outside," he told me. "That's going to guarantee you get every single thing in the bite."
I took the apple pie hot dog in my hands and, after ever so gracefully hunching down to make sure I didn't miss a crumb, I dug in. And wow, was it an experience.
The first thing that surprised me about the apple pie hot dog was how much depth of flavor there was to the dish. You get hit with the savoriness from the hot dog and bacon, along with the sweetness of the apple pie dough and filling, plus the tanginess of the mustard. There's a lot going on but, just as Fieri had promised to me, they all really work together.
"That's really good!" I told him, mouth still full. "That's not what I was expecting."
"It sounds crazy but when you take a bite, you're like, this totally works," Fieri told me as I kept eating. "Why do you put ketchup on a hot dog? Sweet. Why do you put mustard on it? Acid. We're creating this juxtaposition with hot dogs anyways, this now just takes it to a whole other level."
The pie dough was perfectly flaky, while the bacon bits on top gave some extra texture and crunch. And the bacon jam is honestly incredible.
Fieri's bacon jam consists of just five basic ingredients. All you do is sauté some finely chopped applewood smoked bacon in a hot pan until the fat renders. Once the bacon turns golden, add brown sugar, honey, apple cider vinegar, and black pepper. Reduce the heat and let it simmer until the liquid is syrupy and coats the bacon.
I couldn't help but spread some of the extra bacon jam on my apple pie hot dog as I finished it off. Fieri also recommended that next time, I try his jam with avocado toast for a total "gamechanger."
I told Fieri that he knocked it out of the park with his apple pie hot dog
"I had my preconceptions," I told him. "I was like, I don't know if I'm going to love this, this sounds intense."
"I'm not judging, I think you're exactly right to think I'm crazy," Fieri said with a laugh. "And it takes one to know one. I've been there with you when the fire alarm was going off! But it's really fun. It's just been a blast to be a part of history."
And with a dish as good as this, I think the apple pie hot dog may just become a regular thing. I know I'm definitely making it again.