Chicken fried steak

[msmofet]

No, but it surely sounds like that, doesn't it? It's just hammered out with a mallet or something. I never thought about it, but wonder why it's called cube steak?

Edited to add:
Cube steak - Wikipedia

 

[medtran49]

Running a piece of fairly tough steak through a tenderizer or using a Jaccard or meat mallet basically does the same thing as cutting flank/skirt/flap steak against the grain in that it drastically shortens the muscle fibers making the steak easier to chew.

Cube steak or minute steak is a cut that should be cooked a very short time or a very long time.

 

[badjak]

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Which makes it a schnitzel again

 

[TastyReuben]

Here’s a video, though he’s making cube cardboard (“…that perforates it good!”):

View: https://youtu.be/DJJS7sCCJXA?si=Kv1X1ldEXNlALAN_


We used to go to a diner years ago where you’d be able to watch the cook cube your steak “right in front o’ yah!”