Chip Steak

[abunaitoo]

When I was young, there was something called "Chip Steak" I used to eat in a sandwich.
Came in a box frozen. Brown/red color. Paper thin. It had a special white paper that you used to cook it in a frying pan.
It made the best beef and cheese sandwiches I've ever had. Kind of like a Philly cheese steak, but better.
Haven't seen it around for a while.
Did a web search and found something called "Sizzle Steaks". Sounded like the same thing. But also not around anymore.
I've tried "Steak'ums" and it's not the same.
Being in Hawaii, we can get only what is brought in. Miss out on lots of thing available in the states.
Anyone know if it's still around, or something close to it????

[SOFMatchstaff]

Oh yeah, chipped beef on toast, or chit on a chingle, loved it. one of the few things the chow hall at Hickam couldnt mess up to bad.

[lancem]

I know what you are talking about, haven't see it in 20 years or more.

[wallenba]

S.O.S., smelled like up-chuck, hated it, dad loved it. Guess why I had to eat it. After leaving home, I never ate it again. I've seen it in the frozen food section. Stouffer's brand I think.

[Tom_et]

S.o.S was made two ways in our family, fish or Beef
Tuna or salmon was more popular in my house,mixed with
cream of mushroom, can or package frozen peas
Spooned over Dry white toast
doesn't sound that good today :(
I'd say we ate it a couple times a month


as to the Beef ?? I remember it came as you say in a box
can't recall the name
It was Ox-blood in color and white

I don't recall the cooking cooking paper?


Tommyt

[nicholst55]

S.o.S was made two ways in our family, fish or Beef
Tuna or salmon was more popular in my house,mixed with
cream of mushroom, can or package frozen peas
Spooned over Dry white toast
doesn't sound that good today :(
I'd say we ate it a couple times a month Tommyt

Our mothers must have been related, because I actually like(d) that stuff! We ate it frequently, although no frozen peas for us - just tuna and COM soup over toast! I don't think I've run into more than a handful of people who were familiar with this particular dish.

[Bad Water Bill]

Stouffer's FROZEN creamed chipped beef is what the package reads BUT it sure doesn't taste like the stuff they served in the Navy when I was there.

No self respecting HOG would touch this garbage.

Then there was the cinnamon raisin bread with the iceing over the top that woke every one up starving for more.

I still remember that aroma filling every compartment on the carrier.

[Love Life]

Love me some SOS.

I make my own.

[snuffy]

Mom's recipe for chipped beef on toast was corned beef very thin sliced that came in a plastic envelope. She made a white sauce which is just flower, butter, and milk. Usually she'd also hard boiled some eggs, slicing them into the mix. Served on toast, it was delicious.

When I went into the AF, that stuff they called SOS, really was! Always with hamburger, never saw the thin sliced beef. It was barely edible! But they usually had scrambled or fried eggs, so I didn't starve.

[shooterg]

Now, Love Life, post your recipe !

[MaryB]

SOS barf..... all my grandmother made except she used 1/4 pound of hamburger to a gallon of water...

[nhrifle]

Now, Love Life, post your recipe !

Do please share!

[monadnock#5]

S.o.S was made two ways in our family, fish or Beef
Tuna or salmon was more popular in my house,mixed with
cream of mushroom, can or package frozen peas
Spooned over Dry white toast
doesn't sound that good today :(
I'd say we ate it a couple times a month
Tommy


Our mothers must have been related, because I actually like(d) that stuff! We ate it frequently, although no frozen peas for us - just tuna and COM soup over toast! I don't think I've run into more than a handful of people who were familiar with this particular dish.

My grandmother called it Salmon Pea Wiggle, and I loved it served on Saltine Crackers. I asked her for the recipe years later, and was promptly informed that "compared to what salmon costs now, it's a waste of money". I made some anyway, for the memories. My old gramps made sure that we ate Saltines with milk at least once a year. I think it was supposed to be a lesson in "if you're hungry, you'll eat this and like it". A lesson well learned.

[762 shooter]

Chipped beef on toast is very tasty, but not what the OP is referring to.

762

[Lloyd Smale]

you can still find steak-ums in the store. I do it once better. I take a muscle from a hind quarter of a deer and freeze it. Then take a razor knife and slice it real thin. Fryed up in butter with onions peppers and mushrooms and put on home made french bread with american and mozzeralla cheese and you just got the recipe for my favorite way to eat venison

[leadman]

I used to eat the thin fried beef sandwich in a little restaurant when I was a kid. My Dad grew up on a farm and told me it was part of the stomach of a cow. Not sure on that but he could have been right.

[Cowboy_Dan]

One thing you may try if you can't find the original is flank steak. That's probably what was in the box to begin with. All you need from there is the recipee for the rest of it. Simple interwebs search can probaboy turn up one with a picture to confirm that it is the same dish. Bon appétit.

[DLCTEX]

Creamed beef on toast, aka SOS. Ground beef, seasoned and browned mixed with cream gravy, served over toast. Made right is delicious. It was the favorite of the 16 boys I cooked for as a houseparent at Boy's Country.

[C.F.Plinker]

The chipped beef that I remember came in a glass jar with a blue snap on lid. Haven't seen it or even thought of it for years.

[Artful]

Ah, Chipped beef

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3194097397_cfc3656920_o.jpg

These wafer-thin slices of salted and smoked, dried beef are usually packed in small jars and were once an American staple. Chipped beef is also referred to simply as dried beef. "Ship on a shingle," known in polite society as SOS, is military slang used for creamed chipped beef served on toast.
Read more at: http://www.foodterms.com/encyclopedia/chipped-beef/index.html?oc=linkback

http://www.cooksinfo.com/edible.nsf/images/chipped-beef/$file/chipped-beef.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef
Chipped beef is thinly sliced or pressed salted and dried beef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef). Some makers smoke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_%28cooking%29) the dried beef for more flavor. The modern product consists of small, thin, flexible leaves of partially dried beef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef), generally sold compressed together in jars or flat in plastic packets. The processed meat producer Hormel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormel) once described it as "an air-dried product that is similar to bresaola (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresaola), but not as tasty."[ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef#cite_note-1)

among the restaurants still offering chipped beef on toast are Golden Corral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Corral) and Silver Diner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Diner). IHOP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHOP_%28restaurant%29) no longer offers this on their menus, having substituted sausage gravy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_gravy), and the same is true for Cracker Barrel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_Barrel) restaurants. It is also available from companies such as Stouffer's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stouffer%27s) in a frozen form which can be put on top of separately-prepared toast; It is typically quite salty. For instance, Stouffer's creamed chipped beef contains 590 mg sodium per 5.5 ounces (160 g) serving.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef#cite_note-2) The mixture was also, at one point, available from both Freezer Queen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezer_Queen) and Banquet as "hot sandwich toppers"; as of late 2007, Freezer Queen no longer makes this product, and the Banquet variety is rarely found. Finally, both the Esskay Meat Company of Baltimore and Knauss Foods (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knauss_Foods&action=edit&redlink=1) make a refrigerated version of creamed chipped beef which can be easily microwaved. The meat itself is also available for purchase under the Knauss and Carson's Brand names.

US Navy 1945 SOS recipe
http://hnsa.org/doc/cookbook1945/pg148.htm

http://www.hormelfoodsrecipes.com/recipes/details/1133/chipped-beef-on-toast.aspx (http://hnsa.org/doc/cookbook1945/pg148.htm)


E. W. Knauss & Sons, the world's largest producer of dried beef, was acquired by Alderfer Inc. in 2004. Click here to go to Alderfer's website; there you will find a search function to help you locate a retailer near you that carries Knauss dried beef. And if you can't find it locally, Alderfer offers an online purchasing option and full contact info so you can write to them if you like.
http://www.alderfermeats.com/deli/deli-beef/beef-loaf-alderfer-brand-smoked-beef-loaf

[fryboy]

The chipped beef that I remember came in a glass jar with a blue snap on lid. Haven't seen it or even thought of it for years.

that was amour ( spelling? ) brand , last time i saw it ( and cant recall when that was ) it came in the newer fangled foil flashed plastic pouches , not sure which brand was better ( or worse ...lolz ) straight out of the package i dont think either was but when mixed with culinary skills it was not only edible but downright enjoyable

[Dale in Louisiana]

Loved SOS when I was in the Army. Made sure that I hit the messhall at Camp Perry for some, too.

Here's a link to my recipe (http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=4639).

Dale in Louisiana

[dagger dog]

The chipped beef that I remember came in a glass jar with a blue snap on lid. Haven't seen it or even thought of it for years.

Armor still makes that it's salted beef in jars ,you have to boil it with water to remove the salt, then do the SOS.

Cheese steak sandwiches are popular on the east coast and they have plenty of fresh or frozen chip steak on hand at the groceries.

Penn Station a franchise sub shop comes closest to serving cheese steak to what I remember buying and eating in the Philly PA area, they are a reasonable facsimile thereof, but wouldn't cut it where the real product is sold.

[slughammer]

Chip steak is eye round that has been cross cut. As suggested semi-frozen and cut across the grain. (My parents and my brother have a meat slicer and will both do this to the round out of a deer hind 1/4....my wife prefers roast). If you find the right butcher you should be able to ask for this.

[abunaitoo]

I like hamburger SOS. But instead of toast, I like it over buttermilk biscuits.
The Chip Steak" I'm talking about is different from what's in SOS.
Last time I had it was in the 70's.
Steak em's is processed meat. I've tried it and it's rubbish.

The one I'm looking for was round, paper thin, real meat cut. It came in a box of 10 or 12. Each serving of three or four, was between two sheets of some kind of paper.
To cook it, you put it frozen in a frying pan with the paper on the top and bottom. When the meat started to get brown on the edges, it was flipped over. The top paper taken off. Lightly salt and pepper.
Served on bread with mayonnaise and cheese.
Best sandwich I've ever had. Wish I could find it again.

[TCLouis]

It must be me, but whn SOS was on the menu, ate whatever else was available in the line and pushed on!

[mold maker]

Here we have the dried beef in jars by Armor. Wife and I consider it a great treat about once a month. Being both of us are diabetic, with high BP, it is reserved for special occasions. It does have lots of sodium and carbs. Makes you thirsty all day.

[OBIII]

My step-father used to make it with the dried chipped beef. Not bad, but being the frugal gourmet that I am, I use generic sliced beef, like the Buddig variety. I cube it, then add it to a cheese sauce (white sauce with cheese), season, and allow to cook through. Serve on plain toast or homemade biscuits, or over eggs. It's an anytime meal, and right tasty if I do say so myself.

OB

[Garyshome]

I has sos the other day for lunch!

[wyrmzr]

http://www.countrystoremeats.com/Products/Chip-Steak-1--5-Box__668.aspx
(http://www.countrystoremeats.com/Products/Chip-Steak-1--5-Box__668.aspx)
That's one of the first results from a web search. Getting it to you may be a challenge, though...

[abunaitoo]

http://www.countrystoremeats.com/Products/Chip-Steak-1--5-Box__668.aspx
(http://www.countrystoremeats.com/Products/Chip-Steak-1--5-Box__668.aspx)
That's one of the first results from a web search. Getting it to you may be a challenge, though...

This one is processed into a patty. I think it's like "Steak Em's". Not to good.