Frozen VS Homemade Salisbury Steak

[@Barbarra63297]

Salt is definitely a preservative, hasn't been that long since meats were stored between layers of salt and lard and it kept for a very long time in those stone crocks. Even salted cod is still being processed and it really is an excellent preservative.

[@logsupermulti3921]

Salt is very good at both extracting moisture and keeping it out. The entire history of things like Salt Pork is super interesting because it was something that was so common and so vital to life for quite literally thousands of years that people just never did a good job writing about it. But even just 150 years ago salt pork was so important for life that it's local price was printed in the daily paper like stocks. You'd buy it by the barrel full. Or buy it right out of a barrel if you were a single household. Pork when salted and stored for several months was still fairly tender, so the salt could be dusted off, and it soaked for a bit to get rid of excess salt in the meat and then immediately cooked or even eaten raw if you were a soldier on the move or a sailor. Salt beef on the other hand was so hard it was often used by sailors as whittling material. You had to soak it over night for it to be of any use and it didn't really taste that great. EDIT: Regarding the question about if salt should be counted as a preservative on the box I think when processed food has the 'No Preservatives' marking on the box there's a good faith assumption on the part of the buying that means no artificial preservatives.

[@mikes.4136]

I love Salisbury steak and yours looks delicious! The Stouffer’s is very good, but I agree with you - mashed potatoes are the preferred accompaniment. Thank you.

[@j.l.emerson592]

Odd... I learned to make Salisbury Steak with tenderized round steak... I've heard of people using hamburger meat, but it was never done that way in our family. We pounded the steaks to tenderize them, seasoned them with salt & pepper, then browned them in bacon grease. Then we made the roux & 'smothered' the steaks in the resulting brown gravy until fork tender. The gravy usually had onions & mushrooms, seasoned only with salt & pepper. It was always served with mashed potatoes, the gravy, green beans or corn, iced tea & white bread to sop up the gravy... Yum!

[@FoulOwl2112]

That recipe sounds like what l grew up with calling Swiss Steak. Delicious indeed!

[@TheWolfePit]

I identify tenderize round steak with gravy as Swiss steak! or a tenderized round steak with breaded and fried and served with cream gravy as country fried steak! Very interesting differences. Thanks for sharing!

[@lucascady4992]

Family Size Banquet Salisbury steak meal is still amazing as an adult! I add onions and mushrooms after the first 30 minutes.. You can also add add a 1/4 cup of sour cream at the end and serve over egg noodles!! Straight up Beef Stroganoff!! 8+ servings for under $10!

[@thekpmckay]

When you talk about the food so many of us ate growing up, how "horrible" it was nutritionally, and how good we it tasted, it really hits home for me. Keep up the good work!

[@suzanneleonard5485]

Homemade Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes is the best. Add a side of green beans and I'm in heaven. I love your recipe

[@petezahrbock]

Mr,Wolfe pit. Another sweet video 📹!! You are the MAN!! Keep up the awesome work 👌

[@TheWolfePit]

Thanks! Will do!

[@alpham777]

Going off the your website recipe the steaks you made are around 889 mg of sodium each serving accounting for the beef, bread crumbs, salt, egg, milk, water (yes water lol), Worcestershire Sauce, using BTB reduced sodium beef base. Don't wanna be Scooter but if you add a side of mash to that you are at about the same as the boxed meal. But I'm sure it tastes way better.

[@thaisstone5192]

Preserved Lemons: Quartered lemons in jar (1 layer) copious salt. Press lemons into salt, till they get juicy. Continue layers until jar is full. Screw on lid and let them sit for at least a week. N.B. ONLY the rind is used. A must if you are a fan of Middle Eastern food.

[@kenmore01]

Thanks for making it from scratch! I have tried frozen dinners a few times lately, including a couple from Boston market, and though they may taste alright, part way through they start to make me feel sick. I don't know what it is, but it happened every time I ate a frozen meal but never does when I make something from scratch, so I'll be trying yours. I discovered the joys of gelatine lately though. I used it to thicken a vinaigrette (it worked perfectly, but it's easy to overdo it.) I think I'll do that instead of the cornstarch. I'll definitely be adding the mushrooms though! And the mashed potatoes. 😋

[@leonardvavra9493]

I have the Stauffers for a quick lunch. I microwave it. I add a pat of butter to the mac. I also put some of the gravy on the mac. that way my mac and cheese is not dry like the oven version.

[@mikesalgado8627]

i love the voice microphone change from Stouffer to homemade. It gives it that homemade feel atmosphere.

[@MarkMeadows90]

I miss my mom's salisbury steaks she used to make years ago, even the cubed steak she used to make as well.

[@lancerevell5979]

I prefer mashed potatoes with Salisbury Steak. I used to like pretty much like anything from Stouffers. 😎

[@TheWolfePit]

Me too!

[@ifga16]

In the late 1950s the school lunches made by the R-9 School District in South St Louis County Missouri, were mostly scratch built. Salisbury steak day always had a meat patty, mashed potatoes and spinach. My mouth still waters at the thought of a chopped up steak mixed with the potatoes, gravy and spinach into a a gloppy mess. Oh, yes, a mess but a very tasty mess.

[@turtlegrl1749]

❤ I just used your Salisbury steak recipe last night for dinner! It was absolutely delicious (although I did use a bit too much pepper😅)

[@TheWolfePit]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@zeprulz1]

I can't tell you if they are still served in school cafeterias, but can attest they still make appearances in military dining facilities and they are still delicious! They, along with breaded, baked "cordon bleu" (hamsters) and "chicken parm" are the trifecta for 3/5ths of a perfect week. To round out the other 2 days, I'm good if chili mac and the "Yakisoba" make the cut....as long as we get real, deep fried tator tots on Fridays!

[@jeffreybowers7250]

I live in northwest Ohio, and where my kids go to school, unfortunately they don’t serve salisbury steak. They did when I was a child though.

[@brendarector4194]

Mr.Wolfe please do a segment on groceries you stock to have on hand for your budget meals.Would like this for 2024.❤

[@keithstegall1961]

Made this with rice. It was delicious and duck sauce is just apricot jam with vinegar. I used ground pork and breakfast sausage, sage added something different.

[@thnksno]

I've eaten the Stoufer Salisbury Steak and Meatloaf for decades. They're not for living off of, but great for the right time. I've always associated meatloaf with potatoes and Salisbury steak with macaroni. This is literally going back to the tin tray and tinfoil days.

[@thnksno]

I want to add. I wish I could find the Stoufer Welsh Rarebit somewhere.

[@Robb403]

I wonder if these frozen dinner manufactures have a gravy pipeline moving it around from some refinery? It all seems to taste like the same salty brown goo no matter what it comes in and it doesn't curdle in the freezer like regular gravy and the stuff is nearly transparent. So, it must be some sophisticated chemical process that keeps it flowable.

[@TheWolfePit]

lol

[@MoltenMetalGod7]

Our cafeteria used to serve salisbury steak but something i always found odd was while the entrees were usually so-so the bread was ALWAYS on point. Our cafeteria ladies used to bake homemade fresh yeast rolls almost every day it was easily the best part of the meal most of the time (along with the carton of chocolate milk).

[@PaperworkNinja]

The homemade salisbury steak looks pretty dang good! Thanks for the recipe!

[@mcvet57103]

The home made salisbury steak part had me drooling like Pavlovs dogs. Now I'm craving homemade salsibury steak. Thanks a bunch. 🙂

[@rumjack5286]

I can still taste that school lunch steak it tastes like what I imagine the color grey tastes like but maybe that's because it was grey with airbrushed grill marks

[@markiangooley]

The original Salisbury steak advocated by Dr. Salisbury was pretty much ground beef, though made from fairly lean meat with all connective tissue removed. Served with butter, salt and pepper, perhaps Worcestershire sauce or other sauces. The Wikipedia article gives some quotes from Salisbury. Somehow it acquired things like bread crumbs. Salisbury probably wouldn’t have minded a bit of gravy if the ingredients weren’t too far from the meat-based diet he advocated, or if there was a modest amount.

[@TheWolfePit]

That's interesting I didn't know that!! I'll have to look into the original recipe! Thanks for the information!

[@FixinToFish]

I really like Boston Markets Salisbury Steak. I am not a fan of mashed potatoes. I like the Rotini mac and cheese that comes with it. Pairs nice. To each their own.

[@sailorbrite]

You’re subliminally influencing me now, because I just put in a Stouffer’s Salisbury steak in the microwave and then sat down and found this video. 😂

[@rabbitttz]

You had me at NO MUSHROOMS! 😍 And yes I see Salisbury steak on my kids’ school lunch menu.

[@robylove9190]

Thanks, Scott, Frank and Mo ❤

[@glenmoss02]

Great video for us, the people. And I must say, Larry, your nails look immaculate. 😁👍

[@jerrymccurry9372]

Been making my own for years, using just hamburger and packets of brown gravy mix. add whatever flavor you like. much easier and quicker than round or cube steak and cheaper and easier to chew. also stick a potato in the microwave and mash it or not. either way is good.

[@robylove9190]

Thanks, Larry ❤

[@viceprincipalcriticismine]

*”1st, First…” This word is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Stingy.* *Sorry about that.* *:\*

[@timbeaudoin2065]

Or in the manufacturing process on the conveyor belt the gravy squirter squirted a little bit of gravy into the potatoes

[@timbeaudoin2065]

Or mac and cheese lol

[@yvettechristensen8315]

Your recipe looks mighty tasty!

[@robnalu6436]

Gonna HARD PASS on the frozen one, but YOURS looks GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Aloha~~ from Hawaii~~ 🍍🤙🤙

[@ampleangel2262]

Heres a struggle video idea.. Right now many stores are selling turkeys dirt cheap, as little as 50 cents a pound. How about a video showing how to break that turkey down into its parts and then use it to make several different struggle meals

[@jonruss2718]

This is one of my favorite frozen dinners

[@RustyShackleford-]

Love your channel man!

[@CantankerousDave]

I make the recipe from the Foodwishes channel pretty regularly. Me, I use extra mushrooms in the gravy.

[@robertvega3078]

I love Salisbury steak with mash potatoes and regular white bread, make sandwiches with the steak and mash potatoes and green beans on the side

[@jefferybruce2332]

Totally Agree!! Cracker Barrel Mac & Cheese is the BEST by far.

[@benorth0311]

10w-30 got me! My sides were hurting laughing so hard!

[@deshaefromarounthawayricha7324]

I had some last night and it was delicious!

[@susancatterson9422]

I have a pound of ground beef and can’t wait to make this tonight yours looks spectacular 🙋‍♀️😂 Toledo Ohio

[@incompetentdiplomat3716]

Sodium is also the reason some heart issues come to light as well as excessive urination and kidney stones. It’s not good for you, you’re right to point out the huge amount of salt in all this stuff we eat! We could be investing 5 times the amount we should eat and make us unhealthy from too much salt!

[@brandong.1857]

So grateful for this topic. Mystery Meat vs. Homemade

[@ronaldyeater3322]

Sup Larry, there are salts "known" as a preservative, but any salt will draw water from a protein and fight microbes.. so answer Yes it's a preservative 🦧😂🤣. Salisbury steak is my favorite comfort food, and meatloaf but.. when was homeless I went for frozen Salisbury steak meal,but never Mac n cheese lol. Cracker barrel frozen Mac n cheese is good 👍, I make Salisbury steaks with 2lbs beef thinking I can freeze my own but end up eating it within few days 🥺, tyvm tc 🍔🥩🥘🍲🧆🌮🍝🍻

[@TerryC69]

Hi Larry! Your homemade made me forget the whole first half of the video. I will try this with the mushrooms.

[@candyeolney30]

Salt in that amount is definitely a preservative. Homemade version so much better. I make mine exactly like yours except I add a pack of onion soup mix to the meat instead of the dried onions. I love mushrooms but I’m the only one that does so like you I leave them out.

[@ChrisJones-qj4xz]

Salt is how people persevered food for thousands of years. Just gotta boil the meat/fish in water until the salt leeched out and you can eat the food. It's a handy trick and is why salt was worth more than gold for awhile. Funny enough I work in a food grade salt plant in St Clair Michigan. It's a mineral so technically your body excretes the "extra" mineral through natural processes but if your organs aren't functioning correctly, it can build up in the fats you consume and cause all kinds of health problems. My oldest sister is a nurse and she's constantly letting me know these things.

[@ChrisJones-qj4xz]

Like constantly lol

[@TheABElia]

Your nails look beautiful, as always, Mr. Wolfe 👌🏻

[@chuckmckendry194]

We had Salisbury Steak twice a month in High School, and ours was the real thing, the mashed potatoes they served were also real.

[@harveyh3696]

I've never made 'authentic' Salisbury steak. Perhaps it's time to do so.

[@PS-cr1kr]

luv salisbury steak

[@thrasherx2k1]

Beechers worlds best Mac n cheese is the best Mac n cheese I’ve ever had and it’s right at your local store in the frozen section.

[@nunyabizznizz7326]

your version looked legit!

[@eladfitz5673]

Thank you on the sodium (salt) I'm one that the doctor keeps telling me to avoid as much as possible.

[@greenbroccolistudios1275]

I prefer the homemade ones Not the high sodium tv dinners tho :)

[@jerrylong1079]

I love your channel Mr. Wolfepit but, yes there's a but, there's no question that homemade is better than frozen unless one cooks like my mother used to. lol

[@darkwyngraym]

I like Salisbury steak with Mac and cheese because my family almost always serves it with mashed potatoes and it gets boring after awhile.

[@JamesSmith-pc6bh]

Haven't seen a new post in awhile. You doin ok?

[@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679]

yes sir, you need salt. NOT THAT MUCH. Now ME, I work outside in extreme southern FL...we sweat all darn day....WE NEED THAT or we DIE. Now if you aren't sweating your tuchus off starting at 5am, because you went outside, you DO NOT NEED THAT MUCH! And if i want salisbury steak, i make i...from scratch...it's not that hard. and it makes GOOD SANDWICHES the next day

[@sleepervega71hill28]

Hello Larry and All followers! Is the real "Salisbury steak made of Real beef-steak? The whole reason for the meat hammer?

[@judithfish4225]

Mr Wolfe pit. Devour is the best macaroni and cheese. You need to try it

[@lovepets2781]

Honestly I put salt and pepper on everything no matter how much sodium it has cause its never enough for me cause I love salr.

[@audreycasassa1683]

Damn that looks so good!

[@heatherfitzgibbon]

The Salisbury steak at a previous school where I taught was too tough to cut with a plastic fork, so the kids would stab it with the fork and gnaw on it. Must have been tasty enough.

[@vickirickards9625]

But, what about all the carbs?

[@ravenlorans]

2:35 THEY Lost me at MOOSHroom Juice Concentrate

[@ESPSJ]

Was this a reupload, for some reason I feel like ive watched this before?

[@cathyeller5722]

I cheat, I can no longer afford hamburger and buy the cheap fiesta turkey ground roll. It's 2.85 a pound at Walmart. I make my salisbury steaks from that instead of hamburger. Sometimes, I use beef bullion to make the gravy sometimes it's turkey gravy from a dry packet. When I do the turkey gravy husband wants the boxed stuffing with it instead of mashed potatoes. The only time we get mushrooms is when they are marked down. Thanks for the video.

[@LtDan-ov6bf]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@sukharevasyndrome]

We do need salt; it is an electrolyte. But it is a stimulant, and too much is not only poisonous (the reason why seawater is more toxic than urine) but is a stimulant that can harm your heart.

[@johntabor809]

TRY STOFFERS SAULSBERRY STEAK WITH PORK

[@deaconmikepray9793]

Homemade looks delicious!

[@666stonewall]

Mushroom and onion gravy is amazing. Such richness of flavor along with the steaks.

[@Paulosus]

Larry is getting closer to 1 M subscribers and eating a flip flop 😊

[@Shawn666Hellion]

Homemade Salisbury steak with homemade mashed potatoes is my preference

[@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679]

5:49 - that isn't "large size"...that's QUICK LUNCH sized.

[@peterdevries3651]

I used to make this all the time it's past due to make it again

[@pizzulo8111]

Gee, I wonder which will be better? A frozen one in plastic that's made from a bunch of preservatives, or one made from fresh beef? I can't wait to find out.

[@MichaelR58]

Yours looks good, thanks for sharing YAH bless !

[@TheWolfePit]

Thanks for watching

[@scottshep8978]

Good God. Between the fat and salt no thanks. Good video. Thank you.

[@1208bug]

👍

[@bridgetfarace3597]

Whenever I see a package that says, "No Preservatives", I think to myself, "Lovely. It will rot."

[@unforgivencaleb528]

Seeing this makes me so, so, SO glad that I make salisbury steak from scratch now. A million times better than those meat-flavored, salt-laden hockey pucks.

[@fusion210]

Oven ftw. I want these to get the best shot they have. As far as sodium goes, they say Americans are mostly dehydrated. Maybe the salt isn't the problem and people need to drink more water.

[@ScottReynolds003]

Frozen dinner put in the oven what is this 1970?

[@ianm2170]

You have two boxes from Stouffer's: One says "Saltbury Steak", the other, "Salisbury Steak". Explanation? Neither are "steak", but they are both called that, ironically.

[@lorettamargaret2243]

All sodium isn’t good for us, we need salt but it needs to be real salt such as Celtic sea salt or Readmonds real salt

[@twocvbloke]

Basically burgers boiled in oil, I mean gravy... :P

[@kd6tas]

School cafeterias are now fast food food courts.

[@mdoe37]

Banquet BEFORE they put the potatoes, gravy and processed meat patty in one tray section....its a slurry of glop now.

[@RebekahAmberClark]

Foods shouldn't be allowed to say 'no preservatives' when they contain salt, period. 'No artificial preservatives' maybe, but salt is ABSOLUTELY a preservative, whether or not enough is used, or it is used in the right way, to preserve the exact food item in question.

[@barackmycat9448]

I`m 67 and never heard of beef base.

[@gabrielpowers766]

Those used to be pretty good but a year or so ago they changed. several years ago actually, and aren't near as good. Both the mac and cheese and the steak are much worse than they used to be.

[@iluvmusicals21]

Thank you for mentioning the high amount of sodium. I have stage 3 chronic kidney disease. This would be in no way something I could eat . I very much enjoy your channel, especially your food reviews and your own personal cooking.

[@cathyeller5722]

I have noticed a great difference in the quality of the food we used to get and what is sold now. Even the basic Hellman's mayonnaise has changed. Things just aren't as good as they used to be. Now, we have all these recalls going on due to the plants laying off their cleaning crews.

[@Aaronspark7]

They didn't have Salisbury steak when i was in highschool a decade ago (God i feel old saying that)