A good steak tossed on the grill for about 20 seconds is what I call food of the gods.
Any steak cooked to shoe-leather is a bad one.
“A good steak tossed on the grill for about 20 seconds is what I call food of the gods.
Any steak cooked to shoe-leather is a bad one.”
Apples and oranges. Chicken-fried steak is originally from the poorest cuts of beef. Beating the hell out of it, breading it and frying it for a bit actually did it some good. You’ll find that many Southern dishes are based on what rural poor people could get.
I’ve never had a chicken fried steak that resembled shoe leather. In this part of the country good restaurants make it or break it on the reputation of their chicken fried steaks. I still say you had a bad one.
CFS was shoe-leather *before* it was fixed up to be edible, most places you get it.
In very nice places, it’s a good cut and here in Houston, back in the oilie heyday, we had a place called the Pacesetter that served Chicken Fried Filet Mignon. My very favorite CFS ever, may it RIP!