AIR FRYER FRIDAY - Hot dogs for breakfast?

If it's one thing Bob and I do well, it's turn leftovers into great tasting breakfasts. With that in mind, when I needed something for a breakfast sandwich a couple of weeks ago and didn't have any of your typical breakfast meats thawed out, I reached for the container of left-over grilled hot dogs.

I started by frying each of us an egg:

I left them a bit on the runny side so they would finish cooking in the oven. Just let them cook to this stage, stab the yolks and swirl them around in the whites, wait a minute then flip. Let them cook on that side lone enough to grab your plate.

Next, I cut the hot dogs lengthwise and warmed them in the pan just to give a bit of sear:

While I did this, Bob buttered four slices of Kings Sweet Hawaiian bread. 

Note: I discovered later that they should have been buttered LIGHTLY ;-) as the bread was a bit soft.

Bob layed 2 slices of the bread on the baking rack, then I transfered an egg on to each one then 4 of the hot dog strips. Bob added a slice of Velveeta then the remaining slices of bread.

We used the TOAST setting on the second highest darksection to get a good toast. As you can see from the picture below, one corner got a bit darker than the rest. Setting the amount of time selects your 'color' at the same time. So if you like your toast lightly toasted then you would watch your dark setting and go from there. 

I think part of the darkening came from the thickness of the sandwich, making it closer to the top element. We may not have had the issue if we'd just been doing 'toast'. 

This was the result:

After we removed them from the oven, we added slices of tomato.. the last from our garden harvest.

We would definitely make these again.

Keep in mind that any recipe you do the first time is going to bring you to a trial an error point. Keep a small notebook handy to write down what you did so next time you know where to make adjustments. 

Enjoy the Journey!