Hotdog Emoji Kitchen
Hot dog launched with Emoji Kitchen on 1 October 2020, picked up 122 pairings that day, and in the thirty releases since has never beaten that number. It sits at 389 of 619. Thirty releases is among the highest counts in the whole system, which makes the modest total all the more striking.
Every Hotdog mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added Hotdog to Emoji Kitchen on 1 October 2020, starting with 122 combinations. It now mixes with 389 emojis, built up over 30 separate releases. The most recent, on 29 April 2026, added 1.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 14 | 3.6% | |
| 5 | 1.3% | |
| 12 | 3.1% | |
| 8 | 2.1% | |
| 2 | 0.5% | |
| 19 | 4.9% | |
| 4 | 1.0% | |
| 39 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | 1.0% | |
| 37 | 9.5% | |
| 17 | 4.4% | |
| 18 earlier drops | 227 | 58.4% |
Newest Hotdog pairings
These partners arrived in the 29 April 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
Thirty releases, nine pairings each
That is the arithmetic. Hot dog has been included in almost every Emoji Kitchen update for five and a half years and gained an average of nine stickers each time. It is the clearest case of maintenance without investment in the dataset. Pizza, which arrived four years later, needed one release to triple what hot dog built over thirty.
A long thin shape is hard to mix
The bun and sausage make a horizontal bar, and a horizontal bar gives a partner emoji almost nowhere to go that does not break the silhouette. Put something on top and it reads as a topping, which only works for food. Put something beside it and the composition stops being a hot dog. Round or enclosing shapes do much better in Emoji Kitchen, and the counts across the dataset back that up consistently.
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Hotdog Emoji Kitchen FAQ
How many hot dog emoji combinations are there?
389 out of 619 possible partners. Hot dog has appeared in thirty releases since the October 2020 launch but has averaged only around nine new pairings per release.
Has hot dog had new mashups recently?
Barely. One sticker arrived in the 29 April 2026 batch. When updates shrink to a single pairing it normally means the emoji is riding along with general maintenance rather than being developed.
Why does pizza have more combinations than hot dog?
Pizza received 551 pairings in its first release in October 2024. Hot dog has accumulated 389 over five and a half years. The difference is how Google chose to introduce each one, not how long they have been supported.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.