Rip's Chicken Fried Steak

[Mark Rippetoe]

Not according to him.

[tnumrych]

It is a steak fried in a pan like a piece of chicken. Use a tenderized pork cutlet for the best flavor, or beef if you prefer. The cutlet must be either tenderized like a cube steak or beaten with a meat hammer. Salt and pepper the steak, roll it in flour, dip the rolled steak in a batter made of egg and milk, then roll it again in flour. Fry it in a heavy skillet in a half-inch of bacon grease, fairly hot, turning it only once when brown. It is traditionally served with cream gravy made with the drippings in the pan. I have make it for friends in the UK, to a warm reception.

This is exactly what my mother still makes to this day. A mainstay of Polish cooking.

[WildPegasus]

This is exactly what my mother still makes to this day. A mainstay of Polish cooking.

It appears your mother made something that was coated in breadcrumbs, not flour, and fried in something other than bacon grease.

[tnumrych]

It appears your mother made something that was coated in breadcrumbs, not flour, and fried in something other than bacon grease.

Guess I deserved that. I didn't look too carefully at the wiki. Because of regional variations, she used either crumbs or flour, usually flour, but she did not use bacon grease as bacon was a luxury that made its way to the fridge infrequently, lard was used instead.

[UPSDriver]

I do mine a little different. I soak the steak or pork in buttermilk for about an hour in the fridge salt and pepper. Then dredge it in flour and fry in bacon grease like Rip does. Bacon grease in a cast iron skillet is the key to it. The buttermilk helps keep it super tender

[Mark Rippetoe]

The cutlet machine is supposed to be the thing that makes it tender. And the flour-batter-flour process is what makes it a CFS.

[Jamie J. Skibicki]

Cutlet machine?

[The Emancipated Freak]

The cutlet machine is supposed to be the thing that makes it tender. And the flour-batter-flour process is what makes it a CFS.

I thought the gravy made it a chicken fried steak, and a country fried steak is the same thing without gravy.

Although I've only had these once or twice, and I'm from Indiana so I wouldn't know.

[warmachine7954]

Thank God there is a place in Korea that does a CFS pretty good. I can get one when I travel up to Seoul on occasion. But we call them Country Fried Steaks where I'm from in Tennessee.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Cutlet machine?

The rotating blade thingy that tenderizes a cube steak.