Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake announced Thursday that it will cook its fries 100% beef tallow until the end of February.
“Our fries will now be cooked authentically, 100% beef tallow, to achieve the highest quality and best taste,” Chris Ward, chief supply chain officer for Steak ‘n Shake, said in a statement.
By the end of February everything Steak ‘n Shake restaurants switched from frying in vegetable oil to frying in “100% all-natural beef tallow”.
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“The consumer wants the best and deserves the best,” Kristen Briede, the chain’s director of global development, said in a statement.
The switch to beef tallow will ensure Shake ‘n Shake “delivers the best fries possible,” she said.
Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake announced that until the end of February, they will cook their fries in beef fat. (iStock)
Earlier Thursday, the official Steak ‘n Shake account on X posted, “Steak n Shake to use 100% beef tallow. No lid.” “No cap” is a slang term meaning “no lie” or “really”.
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The chain followed up with another post that said, “By the end of February 2025, all locations will use 100% all-natural beef tallow. If vegetable oil broke your heart, our tallow will make you fall in love all over again.”
Beef tallow is the fat that surrounds a cow’s kidney.
Steak ‘n Shake previously teased a switch to beef tallow on his X account. Three days before the announcement, Steak ‘n Shake released a poll asking, “Cook fries in 100% beef tallow?”
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More than 90% of respondents voted “yes,” but it was not clear how long the poll had been open.
Steak ‘n Shake has 436 locations across the United States, primarily in the South and Midwest.
The Indiana-based chain was founded in 1934 and is known for your Steakburgers.
The Indiana-based chain will replace vegetable oil with beef tallow. (iStock)
In recent years the use of “seed oils” in cooking caused much controversy. In October, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned their use in fast food restaurants and called for a return to the use of beef tallow.
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“Did you know that McDonald’s used beef tallow to make its French fries from the 1940s until it was phased out in favor of seed oil in 1990? This change was made because saturated animal fat was thought to be unhealthy, but in the meantime we discovered that seeds oils are one of the driving forces behind the obesity epidemic,” Kennedy wrote in an Oct. 21 post.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he was a vocal proponent of fast food restaurants using beef tallow. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Obesity rates, he said, “started to rise dramatically around the same time that fast-food restaurants switched from beef tallow to seed oils in their fryers.”
“People who enjoy a burger and fries on a night out are not to blame, and Americans should have every right to eat out at a restaurant without unknowingly poisoning themselves with heavily subsidized seed oils,” Kennedy said, adding, “It’s time to Rebuild tallow from frying oil.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Steak ‘n Shake for additional comment.
