How to Make Hot Dog in Grow a Garden
Last updated September 2026
Quick answer
Hot Dog is cooked in the Cooking Kit from 5 rarity tiers. It always takes 7 minutes and weighs 1.5kg at base. The lowest tier is Common (2x Corn + 1x Watermelon); the best is Prismatic (1x Corn + 4x Bone Blossom). Across every tier this dish uses 8 different crops.
A Corn-based recipe with a wide rarity range. Watermelon appears in the Common tier.
Hot Dog ingredients by rarity tier
5 tiers, 9 known ingredient combinations in total. Higher-rarity crops in the pot push the output tier up — mutated crops count as higher-rarity inputs.
| Rarity tier | Ingredients | Alternative combo |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 2x Corn + 1x Watermelon | — |
| Legendary | 2x Violet Corn + 2x Lucky Bamboo + 1x Bone Blossom | 1x Pepper + 1x Corn |
| Mythical | 1x Ember Lily + 1x Corn | 4x Ember Lily + 1x Corn |
| Divine | 2x Bone Blossom + 2x Beanstalk + 1x Corn | 1x Violet Corn + 3x Bone Blossom |
| Prismatic | 1x Corn + 4x Bone Blossom | 1x Violet Corn + 4x Bone Blossom |
Every crop Hot Dog uses
8 crops appear in at least one Hot Dog combination. Sorted by base value — the rarest ones only show up in the top tier, so plant them separately from your bulk crops.
| Crop | Rarity | Base value | Seed cost | Grow time | Used by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bone Blossom | Transcendent | 181K | 100B | 2h 52m | 11 recipes |
 Ember Lily | Prismatic | 60.2K | 15M | 5h 57m | 3 recipes |
 Lucky Bamboo | Legendary | 58.7K | — | 1h 26m | 1 recipe |
 Violet Corn | Legendary | 45.1K | — | 3m | 2 recipes |
 Beanstalk | Prismatic | 25.3K | 10M | 3h 41m | 5 recipes |
 Pepper | Divine | 7.2K | 1M | 10m | 5 recipes |
 Watermelon | Legendary | 2.7K | 2.5K | 17m | 3 recipes |
 Corn | Rare | 36 | 1.3K | 1h 49m | 11 recipes |
Where Hot Dog sits in the recipe list
Ranked against all 15 cooking recipes in Grow a Garden.
Recipes that share ingredients with Hot Dog
If you already grow the crops for Hot Dog, these dishes reuse the same plots.
Hot Dog FAQ
How do you make Hot Dog in Grow a Garden?
Put the ingredients into your Cooking Kit's pot and press Cook. Hot Dog has 5 known rarity tiers — the lowest is Common (2x Corn + 1x Watermelon) and the highest is Prismatic (1x Corn + 4x Bone Blossom). The dish always takes 7 minutes to cook regardless of which tier you aim for.
What ingredients does Hot Dog need?
Across all 5 tiers, Hot Dog uses 8 different crops: Bone Blossom, Ember Lily, Lucky Bamboo, Violet Corn, Beanstalk, Pepper, Watermelon, Corn. You never need all of them at once — each tier has its own two-crop or three-crop combination.
What is the best tier of Hot Dog?
The Prismatic tier is the best version, made with 1x Corn + 4x Bone Blossom. An alternative Prismatic combo is 1x Violet Corn + 4x Bone Blossom. Reaching it needs 2 ingredient slots filled with high-rarity crops — the hardest one to source here is Bone Blossom (181K base value).
How long does Hot Dog take to cook?
Hot Dog cooks in 7 minutes. That puts it at rank 9 of 15 recipes by cook time, where the fastest is Candy Apple (3 min) and the slowest is Burger (10 min).
Is Hot Dog worth cooking in Grow a Garden?
Hot Dog uses 8 crops — rank 6 of 15 recipes by ingredient count, and its easiest ingredient to restock is Corn. That is a long ingredient list, so budget your plots before committing to a batch. Cook it during Chris P. Bacon's craving event for the biggest payoff.