Ask Rip - Chicken-fried steak

[poser]

Just covers the bottom of the meat, 1/2 butter and 1/2 olive oil.

1/2 butter, 1/2 pork lard is a much better option. Olive oil is not great for cooking purposes.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Olive oil is excellent for cooking purposes, eckspecially with butter. But lard works well if you have it laying around the kitchen.

[Jennifer Williams]

I hail from the People's Republik of New Yorkistan and I have never referred to it as "country-fried"...

It's floured like fried chicken... so it's chicken-fried...

OH YEAH!!! Well my husband comes from Alabama and he calls it Country Fried Steak. 😛

I grew up in South Florida where I generally preferred Cuban and Mexican food...to the annoyance of my Portuguese and Italian grandmothers. So, I certainly don’t claim to be an expert on this subject. I guess my grandma fried her chicken with a Parmesan blend. So it wouldn’t apply in my experience. 😝

[Mark Rippetoe]

Alabama is apparently full of Yankees.

[John Watson]

This thread is making me hungry.
Why the hell isn't there even at least a Waffle House or Cracker Barrel in midtown Manhattan?

[furrier]

OH YEAH!!! Well my husband comes from Alabama and he calls it Country Fried Steak. ��

I grew up in South Florida where I generally preferred Cuban and Mexican food...to the annoyance of my Portuguese and Italian grandmothers. So, I certainly don’t claim to be an expert on this subject. I guess my grandma fried her chicken with a Parmesan blend. So it wouldn’t apply in my experience. ��

Yep, "Country Fried Steak" in the part of Georgia where I grew up, too.

[mbrowne]

Rip, have you been to Mary’s in Strawn for the chicken fried steak? My wife says people “come from all over the country to try it”

[johnnys]

Alabama is apparently full of Yankees.

When I lived (as a carpetbagger Yankee) near Dallas, I was told that the definition of Yankee is anyone born north of I-30. Sorry. What does Andy Baker call breaded fried steak?

[Mark Rippetoe]

The Red River is the demarc. Baker may call it a schnitzel.

[Colby]

The Red River is the demarc. Baker may call it a schnitzel.

That's a matter of your orientation - I'm born and bred in Houston and I veiw anything north of Huntsville as Canada