What Happened To Minute Steaks?

[stefen]

Used to cook them up for a quick sandwich snack...can't find them any more.

[SwampHunter]

They are alive and well in Arkansas. We had minute steak last night for dinner. I pick out the packages that are bright red and have the less white flesh. I then tenderize it more with a rubber mallet. Cut them into smaller pieces. I make up a mixture of salt, pepper and Tony Cachere's seasoning in flour. I coat the steak pieces in this. I then get a skillet going with about a cup and a half Canola oil. When the oil gets hot I place just enough steak pieces in so they don't touch. Cook them on both sides. It doesn't take long for them to get done. When I have finshed cooking the steak pieces I dump out half of the oil. I then take the flour mixture that I coated the steak pieces in and dump it into the the skillet with the oil and stir. I add milk as needed. Get it as thin or as thick as you like it. This makes a great gravy to go with the steak and some mashed potatoes with real butter.

If you can't find them in the store ask the butcher to make you some up.

[stefen]

The ones I remember were frozen-prepackaged, were square maybe 5" X 5" X 1/4 to 3/8 " thick and had a pat of butter embedded on each side...

All you had to do was open the package and drop into a skillet and brown each side...total time of i minute...then pop betgween 2 peices of bread...and enjoy.

[SwampHunter]

I guess we aren't talking about the same thing. I guess what I am talking about is actually called Cube Steak in most parts of the world. Around here it's known as Minute Steak.

I don't guess I have ever seen what you are talking about. Sounds good though.

[stefen]

You see, I don't want to go to the butcher (boucher) to get meat for a meal...I want to go to the freezer and pull out a package and pop it into a skillet and have a (fast-food) meal.

[PBK]

I agree with SwampHunter as far as what "minute steaks" are.

What Stefen's describing sounds more like Steak-umms...

[Tubecity]

We call em cube steaks here too. Don't care to much for steak'ems but some food places get what's called wafer cut rib-eye steak from the supplier & they
make a fairly good steak sandwich or what we call 'hoagies'.

[Mental Granny]

Here they sell them in the fresh meat section, lightly breaded, throw from the frezzer in the pan 2 min. they are ready, love when were runnin late on tired. Or just plain lazy night!

[Johnny Cache Hunter]

My idea of a minute steak is when my wife yells out from the kitchen....
"Dinner is going to be ready in a minute"

The steak-ums, from what I remember, were completely processed and therefore tended to lack the taste and texture you could get from a thinly sliced fresh steak. I suspect what your probably looking for is something convenient, however, I think it would be possible to buy a bunch of the fresh breakfast steaks, as previously suggested, and simply stack them between sheets of wax paper, perhaps placing the stacked steaks in bundles of 5 or 10 per freezer bag. That way they'd be readily available, easily to separate, still quick cooking and likely tastier than the processed stuff, of course taste is subjective.

JCH

[oldplacesnofinds]

Here is PA, Steak-ums are considered minute steaks. I prefer the Quaker Maid brand. It is less fatty and taste better.

[Sara77]

It's funny how a few hundred (or thousand) miles change peoples labels for things. I would never in my life have thought of a steakum as a minute steak. Here in hillbilly country us kids had to eat minute steak on the weekends while we watched the adults eat a ribeye or t bone!
TT, those definitely taste like cardboard!

[Tubecity]

Here is PA, Steak-ums are considered minute steaks.

I'm in western Pa. & minute steaks to us are thin, sliced rib-eyes
or thin breakfast steaks, usually served on steak hoagies or steak
& cheese sandwiches. We call steak -ums----steak ums.

[stoney56]

You might look in the grocery freezer section for breaded chicken fried steak patties. Got some at Wally World, made by Tyson. 8 patties for $4.95. Heat-n-eat. Not bad with pepperjack cheese melted to 'em.