You've Been Making Cube Steak WRONG Your Whole Life! — Try These 30 Appalachian Tricks

🔗 Grandma never wrote hers down, so I finally did. All 118 plus much more. Get em before they're gone: https://www.opalrowe.com Opal Rowe is eighty years old, and for sixty years folks have asked her at every homecoming and every funeral dinner how her cube steak comes out so tender. She always told them flour and grease and a hot black skillet, same as anybody, and never said a word about the pan. In this one she counts down 30 old Appalachian tricks for cooking cube steak right, from the bacon grease can to the ten-minute rest that keeps your breading from sliding off, and the first few you can use on tonight's supper. All the while a pan sits on her kitchen table with a dish towel over it, four cube steaks laid in something cold and pale since six o'clock that morning. If your cube steak ever came out tough as a boot sole, that pan is why hers never did, and she finally lifts the towel and tells you what is in it. In this one, Opal covers: • Why your breading slides off in one big sheet, and the ten minutes that fix it tonight • The egg and canned milk dip between two coats of flour that gives you the thick, craggy diner crust • Browning it quick and letting the gravy finish it slow, on the back of the stove, in the oven, or in a roaster for forty at a church supper • Hard-times tricks from the hollers: the Coca-Cola bottle for pounding, three steaks stretched to feed a table of six, and the little skillet for cooking for one • What is under that dish towel on her kitchen table, and the one thing about gravy that can never be written down Tell Opal down in the comments where you are watching from, and who made the cube steak and gravy at your house growing up, a mama, a mawmaw, or an aunt, and what she served it over. Was it biscuits, or rice, or mashed potatoes? Tell her if anybody in your family still makes the gravy without a recipe. Opal reads every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Covered Pan on Opal's Kitchen Table 1:55 Bacon Grease From the Can 2:48 Let the Floured Steak Rest Ten Minutes 3:40 Pat the Steak Dry Before the Flour 4:29 A Heap of Pepper in the Flour 5:24 The Egg and Canned Milk Dip 6:17 Press the Flour In Hard 7:06 Never Crowd the Skillet 7:59 Brown It, Do Not Scorch It 8:51 Do Not Wash That Skillet 9:43 Warm Milk for Gravy With No Lumps 10:32 Buy a Round Steak and Beat It Yourself 11:43 On the Back of the Stove All Afternoon 13:02 Brown It, Then Finish It in the Oven 14:21 Smothered in Onions 15:53 Cooked Through, No Pink in the Middle 17:34 The Pressure Cooker and Its Jiggler 19:12 Forty Steaks in a Church Supper Roaster 20:45 Tomato Gravy Over Cube Steak 22:32 Pork Cube Steak Off the Hog 24:26 A Pinch of Soda in a Cup of Water 26:20 The Vinegar Splash Opal Got Wrong 28:10 Lillie's Slow Cooker and Mushroom Soup 30:10 The Steak Biscuit the Next Morning 31:51 Fork Tender for Somebody With Few Teeth 33:40 Deer Meat Pounded Like Cube Steak 35:35 Three Steaks to Feed a Whole Table 37:22 The Little Skillet for One 38:56 Freeze Them Between Wax Paper 40:53 What's Under the Dish Towel — Revealed 43:02 Standing at Her Elbow