Fast food chain Steak 'n Shake announced Thursday that its shoestring fries will be cooked in 100% beef tallow by the end of February 2025.
“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 'n Shake restaurants will move from frying food in vegetable oil to frying food in “100% natural beef tallow.”
“Consumers want and deserve the best,” Kristen Breede, the Indiana-based chain's chief global development officer, said in a statement.
The switch to beef tallow allows Shake 'n Shake to “offer the best fries possible,” she said.
early Thursday morning, Posted by X's Steak 'n Shake official account“Steak'n Shake made with 100% beef tallow. There is no cap. ”
“No Cap” is a slang term meaning “no lies” or “true”.
The chain followed up the post with a statement: “By the end of February 2025, we will be using 100% natural beef tallow in all of our stores. Even if vegetable oil breaks your heart, our tallow will make you fall in love again.” It will let you fall.”
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 'n Shake posted a survey asking, “Which cook fries are made with 100% beef tallow?”
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 chain was founded in 1934 and is known for its steakburgers.
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.
“Did you know that McDonald's used beef tallow to make its French fries from 1940 until 1990 when they phased out beef tallow in favor of seed oil?” President Kennedy wrote in an Oct. 21 post..
“This switch was made because saturated animal fats were thought to be unhealthy, but then we discovered that seed oils were one of the drivers of the obesity epidemic.”
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.”
“Those who enjoy burgers and fries on a night out are not to blame. Americans should not be unwittingly poisoned by heavily subsidized seed oils and should not be left unwittingly poisoned by heavily subsidized seed oils.” “They should have a right to food,” Kennedy said.
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