Fast food chain Steak 'n Shake announced Thursday that its shoestring fries will be cooked in 100% beef fat by the end of February.
“Our fries are made using authentic methods using 100% beef tallow to ensure the highest quality and best taste,” Chris Ward, Steak 'n Shake's chief supply chain officer, said in a statement. It will be cooked,” he said.
By the end of February, all Steak & Shake restaurants will transition from frying food in vegetable oil to using “100% natural beef tallow.”
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“Consumers want and deserve the best,” Kristen Breede, the chain's global chief development officer, said in a statement.
The switch to beef tallow allows Shake 'n' Shake to “offer the best fries possible,” she said.
Fast food chain Steak 'n Shake has announced that it will start cooking its fries in beef tallow by the end of February. (St. Petersburg)
“Steak & Shake uses 100% beef tallow. No upper limit,” the official X Steak & Shake account posted early Thursday. “No Cap” is a slang term meaning “no lies” or “true”.
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The chain followed up the post with a statement: “By the end of February 2025, we plan to use 100% natural beef tallow in all of our stores. If vegetable oils have broken your heart, you'll fall in love with our tallow all over again. ” he posted.
Beef tallow is the fat found around the kidneys of cows.
Steak 'n Shake previously teased a move to beef tallow on its X account. Three days before the announcement, Steak & Shake posted a survey asking, “Which fries are made with 100% beef tallow?”
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More than 90% of respondents voted yes, but the voting period was unclear.
Steak 'n Shake has 436 stores across the United States, primarily in the South and Midwest.
The Indiana-based chain was founded in 1934 and is known for its steakburgers.
The Indiana-based chain plans to replace vegetable oil with tallow. (St. Petersburg)
In recent years, the use of “seed oil” in cooking has been a subject of great debate. In October, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed the use of beef tallow in fast-food restaurants and called for a return to its use.
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“Did you know that McDonald's used beef tallow to make its fries from 1940 until 1990, when it phased out beef tallow in favor of seed oil? This switch was made with saturated animal fats. “Oil is one of the drivers of the obesity epidemic,” Kennedy wrote on October 21. I wrote it in
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a vocal supporter of fast food restaurants that use beef tallow. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Obesity rates, he said, “started to skyrocket around the same time that fast-food restaurants switched from beef tallow to seed oil in their fryers.”
President Kennedy said, “People who enjoy hamburgers and fries on a night out are not to blame. “People should have the right to eat,” he said, adding, “Now is the time.” Make the frying fat again. ”
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