Fast food chain Steak 'n Shake announced Thursday that it will make its french fries 100% pure. Beef tallow By the end of February.
“Our french fries “It will now be cooked authentically, 100% beef, in order to achieve the highest quality and best taste,” Chris Ward, Steak 'n Shake's chief supply chain officer, said in a statement.
By the end of February, that's it Steak and Shake Restaurants It will go from frying in vegetable oil to frying in “100% natural beef fat”.
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“The consumer wants the best and deserves the best,” Christine Priddy, the chain’s chief global development officer, said in a statement.
Switching to beef tallow will ensure Shake 'n Shake “serves the best french fries possible,” she said.
Fast food chain Steak 'n Shake has announced that it will cook its French fries in beef lard by the end of February. (Istock)
Earlier Thursday, the official Steak 'n Shake account on X posted, “Steak n Shake to Use 100% Beef Tallow. No Cap.” “No cap” is a slang term meaning “no lie” or “true.”
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The chain followed up that post with another that said: “By the end of February 2025, all locations will be using 100% natural beef tallow. If vegetable oil broke your heart, our tallow will make you fall in love again.”
Tallow is the fat that surrounds a cow's kidneys.
Steak and Shake She had previously teased the move to beef tallow on her X account. Three days before the announcement, Steak 'n Shake posted a poll asking, “Cook french fries in 100% beef tallow?”
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More than 90% of participants voted “yes,” but it was not clear how long the vote would last.
Steak 'n Shake has 436 locations across the United States, primarily in the South and Midwest.
The Indiana-based chain was founded in 1934 and is known for Steakburger.
The Indiana-based chain will replace vegetable oil with beef fat. (Istock)
In recent years, it has been usedSeed oilsIn cooking it has generated much controversy. In October, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized its use in fast food restaurants and called for a return to the use of beef tallow.
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“Did you know that McDonald's used beef tallow to prepare its French fries from 1940 until phasing it out in favor of seed oils in 1990? This switch was made because saturated animal fats were thought to be unhealthy, but we have since discovered that seeds are October 21 post: “Oils are one of the drivers of the obesity epidemic.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a strong supporter of fast food restaurants using beef tallow. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Obesity rates “began to rise dramatically at the same time that fast food restaurants switched from beef tallow to seed oils in their fryers,” he said.
“People who enjoy a burger and fries on a night out are not to blame, and Americans should have every right to eat out at a restaurant without being poisoned by highly subsidized seed oils,” Kennedy said. Make frying oil fat again.”
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