MAJOR Facepalm! Our French Fries Will be made with beef tallow

[kenny]

Burger chain announces states where fries have been "RFK'd"

Steak 'n Shake has said all its branches across the U.S. will cook their fries in beef tallow by March 1.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Karl_K]

yummy!!!

 

[seaurchin]

SMH

 

[Karl_K]

yummy!!!

For the record, I love the taste of food fried in tallow and barely tolerate vegetable oil. It gives everything an off taste.
That said other than eggs, I eat fried food maybe once every 2-3 months and have low cholesterol with good ratios.
I might drop in and try them. I have never been there.

 

[lyra]

This doesn't seem good.

 

[RMOO]

Well you can certainly tell what political party the owner of Steak n Shake belongs to.

 

[Lookinagain]

Is Beef Tallow Healthy? Cooking With Beef Tallow

Beef tallow is seeing a resurgence in the kitchen thanks to the keto diet. A cardiovascular dietitian explains why that isn’t good news for your health and heart.

health.clevelandclinic.org

I think I'll stick with olive oil and avocado oil.

 

[kenny]

... I think I'll stick with olive oil and avocado oil.

+1
That's all I use any more.

 

[Lookinagain]

+1
That's all I use any more.

From what I can tell, they are the best for you. I do use peanut oil once in a great while, but not often. I think that is okay too, from what I've read.

 

[kenny]

One naughty thing I splurge on is homemade Taro chips.
I buy the raw root.



Slice thin with my OXO slicer.




Then deep fry in Avocado oil in my LeCruset Wok ... so beautiful it belongs in a museum of modern art.


Dry on paper towels.
Then a smidge of salt.

TO DIE FOR!!!

 

[JPie]

Honestly? Beef tallow fries sound delicious. Duck fat fries are even better.

 

[RMOO]

Is Beef Tallow Healthy? Cooking With Beef Tallow

Beef tallow is seeing a resurgence in the kitchen thanks to the keto diet. A cardiovascular dietitian explains why that isn’t good news for your health and heart.

health.clevelandclinic.org

I think I'll stick with olive oil and avocado oil.

I use olive oil too, but what do you use for baking (sweets?)

 

[lyra]

I grew up with wild game year round, and bacon grease to fry everything. All we use now is olive oil. (And I may have bought an air fryer recently that is astonishingly good to have, lol.) So I've eaten enough duck fat, goose fat and bacon grease for a lifetime. My tastes are just very simple now. We don't have that restaurant here.

 

[dk168]

I have not changed the way I fry anything.

Potatoes = animal fat depending what I have in stock, such as butter mixed with vegetable oil to minimise burning of the butter, or duck/goose/beef/bacon fat.

Aubergine = vegetable oil mostly corn oil or sunflower oil.

I have never stopped eating butter.

DK

 

[lyra]

We also use a lot of butter. We gave up on alternatives several years ago. So we use it for cooking a lot too. I forgot about that.

 

[Lookinagain]

I use olive oil too, but what do you use for baking (sweets?)

I don't bake often, but if you mean what do I use instead of oil in things like banana bread, I use applesauce instead.

 

[Lookinagain]

We also use a lot of butter. We gave up on alternatives several years ago. So we use it for cooking a lot too. I forgot about that.

Oh, I use butter too for certain things. I was thinking about oils, since they were talking about french fries.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

yummy!!!

its how my mum made them
we just called it fat or dripping and it lived in a basin in the back of the fridge, collected from a roast although sometimes she would buy a packet from the butcher

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

For the record, I love the taste of food fried in tallow and barely tolerate vegetable oil. It gives everything an off taste.
That said other than eggs, I eat fried food maybe once every 2-3 months and have low cholesterol with good ratios.
I might drop in and try them. I have never been there.

i do use olive oil but i dont trust anything with soy in or anything very processed, i dont want to touch anything GM, its illegal here but it is in imported processed food

we do like the olive oil spread but i would buy butter if t wasn't so expensive (we have to pay international market prices for dairy here)

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

butter is really yellow here because cows eat grass

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Many oils burn before they get hot enough to deep fry anything. At any rate, I fry very little. Exception: Butter for steak on low heat.

cheers--Sharon

 

[kenny]

I

HI:

Many oils burn before they get hot enough to deep fry anything. At any rate, I fry very little. Exception: Butter for steak on low heat.

cheers--Sharon

True ... when/if oil smokes it becomes dangerous to consume.
So, pour it out, wipe out the pan well, and start over.

And that's why:
1. You do your homework and buy/choose the oil that does not smoke when heated to the temp you need for what you're cooking this time.
2. Buy a quality thermometer, and learn how to use it properly.

America's Test Kitchen's top choice thermometer is actually still made in England ...
And it happens to be on sale right now ...

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[kenny]

butter is really yellow here because cows eat grass

But then, shouldn't your butter be green?

 

[telephone89]

i do use olive oil but i dont trust anything with soy in or anything very processed, i dont want to touch anything GM, its illegal here but it is in imported processed food

we do like the olive oil spread but i would buy butter if t wasn't so expensive (we have to pay international market prices for dairy here)

NZ butter is highly sought after in Canada!

 

[SparklieBug]

America's Test Kitchen's top choice thermometer is actually still made in England ...
And it happens to be on sale right now ...

Thermapen® ONE

Experience rapid, precise temperature readings with ThermoWorks’ best-selling Thermapen ONE. Essential for every cook, it’s your key to culinary mastery.

www.thermoworks.com

I purchased one of these last year, and love it! Super fast, accurate, and the probe hinges so it can be used in confined spaces or to keep your hand out of heat from a pan. Have also used it for checking temperature for roasts, and for reheating food to be sure the center is hot. So good!

 

[Gloria27]

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

omg they put beef flavour into the modern ones
and a whole lot of other sh*t
as my mother would say
the world has gone mad

 

[Lookinagain]

That's actually very interesting. I don't buy fries there, but I did when I was a teenager and thought they were very good. Maybe that's why. Beef tallow is not something I've ever even seen as something to purchase. Where do people get it?

 

[Gloria27]

omg they put beef flavour into the modern ones
and a whole lot of other sh*t
as my mother would say
the world has gone mad

Yeah, and citric acid is made from mould, in a lab, and dextrose is sugar.

(Not in the ingredients list above but) most USA cheeses are made with an ingredient, a bioengineered product made in a lab called chymosin (turns milk into cheese) which replaces rennet, brought to you by...wait for it, Pfizer!

not to mention colourings in food that are legal in the US but not so much here in EU and UK, some are cancer causing stuff.

bon appetit!

The UK is slightly better, still adhering to EU food safety standards but some stuff out there is nasty! Slushies are not to be sold to under 7yo anymore, because the sweetener is glycerol not sugar and kids have gotten ill.

That's actually very interesting. I don't buy fries there, but I did when I was a teenager and thought they were very good. Maybe that's why. Beef tallow is not something I've ever even seen as something to purchase. Where do people get it?

The fancier supermarkets usually, farms, online stores and sometimes even Amazon.

I rarely eat chips/fries, when I'm on the road I get burgers with fries, I avoid frying stuff in my house and if I do it's always meat not chips/fries.

Lard and goose fat work too, goose fat for oven baking (birds meat) and lard for extra flavour in dishes that lack fat, usually the ones with sauces.

Goose fat (jar) is sold in every supermarket during Christmas times, stored in the fridge lasts a long time.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

this is what mum used to buy if she had no reserved fat from a roast
her chips were the best
of course back in the day it came in a greeseproff paper wrapping