The Icelandic Hot Dog Kit – Ein með öllu | Everything but the sausage (chilled, DHL Express)

The complete Icelandic hot dog — everything but the sausage. Every topping from Reykjavík’s famous hot dog stand, the proper buns and the drink, packed cold and sent by DHL Express so you can make “ein með öllu” (one with everything) at home, exactly the way we do it.

The six things in the box

Gunnars remúlaði is the creamy, slightly sweet Icelandic remoulade — the one that can’t be copied, and the reason this kit travels chilled. SS pylsusinnep is the sweet brown Icelandic mustard: not Dijon, not yellow (Bill Clinton took his with mustard only). Vals ketchup has been made by the same family since 1960 and is the ketchup used at Bæjarins Beztu — milder and a touch sweeter than the American kind. Crispy fried onions are the crunch under the sausage. Myllan buns are the soft, slightly sweet rolls baked for the SS pylsa — ten of them. And Egils Appelsín, Iceland’s orange soda since 1955, is the classic hot dog drink; we freeze the two bottles before packing so they keep the remúlaði and buns cold on the way, and they thaw into two cold drinks for you.

How to make “ein með öllu” — the order matters

1. Warm the sausage in hot (not boiling) water for a few minutes — that’s the proper way, even if plenty of Icelanders grill them at home. A splash of beer in the water is the old trick.
2. Warm a bun so it just gives.
3. Into the bun, in this order: a line of ketchup, then a spoon of crispy fried onions and a little raw chopped onion.
4. Sausage on top.
5. Finish with a zigzag of SS mustard down the length, then a stripe of remúlaði.

Serve with the Appelsín, cold. Eat it standing up — that’s the tradition.

Which sausage should I use?

The Icelandic pylsa is mostly lamb, with pork and beef, in a natural casing that snaps. The closest thing at home is a good lamb sausage or a natural-casing pork-and-beef frankfurter from a butcher or deli. Thin is better than thick. Skip anything smoky or heavily spiced — the toppings are the flavour.

Why the sausages aren’t in the box

We’d love to send them. But meat can’t be posted into the United States by parcel — it may only enter through USDA-inspected commercial imports — and most other countries have similar rules. Rather than sell you something customs will take, we send everything that can travel: the toppings, the buns, the drink, and the know-how.

Shipping and freshness — please read

• DHL Express only. The remúlaði must stay cold and the buns are fresh bread, so this kit is packed in an insulated box with a cooling mat and the frozen Appelsín, and shipped by DHL Express from our family shop in Hafnarfjörður. It is the only shipping option offered for this kit.
• Refrigerate the remúlaði on arrival. Mustard, ketchup and onions keep at room temperature until opened.
• The buns are fresh and are best eaten within a few days of arrival; they freeze well if you want to keep some for later.
• Full ingredient lists and nutrition are printed on every item in the box. The mustard contains wheat flour (gluten); the remúlaði contains egg.