Is Swiss Steak a common food in Switzerland?!
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No, they don't.
It's an Americanization for a cheap cheap piece o' meat that's been tenderized by razorblades!
Swiss steak is a method of preparing meat, usually beef, by means of rolling or pounding, and then braising in a cooking pot of stewed tomatoes, either on a stove (cooker) or in an oven.
The name does not refer to Switzerland, but instead to the process of "swissing", which refers to fabric or other materials being pounded or run through rollers in order to soften it. Swiss steak is typically made from relatively tough cuts of meat, such as the round, which have been pounded with a tenderizing hammer, or run through a set of bladed rollers to produce so-called "cube steak". The meat is typically coated with flour and seasonings and cooked in a gravy made from tomato and sometimes green and red peppers.
The process of swissing meat is done to enable tougher and cheaper pieces of meat to be tenderized. Cube steak is the usual meat used in producing Swiss steak by most home cooks. Cube steak has had the connective fibers that make the meat tough physically broken by the butcher and the braising process further breaks down the connective tissue in the meat. Swiss steak should be tender enough to be eaten without a knife.
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This is one of those questions with no real answer. Usually something about what people eat at that other country. Does everyone in Frankfurt eat franks or those in Hamburg eat Hamburgers or do those in Vienna (Wien) all eat Wiener schnistlel ? I guess that these names were built up by early times advertisers. BTW slightly off topic. A very bad disease was known in France as the English disease and in England, you guessed it the French disease.
I grew up in Bavaria and travelled to Switzerland several times. The Swiss are all about cows. Their cheese is far superior to ours. Yes they do eat it and they do it best. It's been my experience that europeans can take a cheap cut of meat and make it absolutely unctuous.
Braising steak will be done around the world, here we just call it tenderised steak.
..Yes!!...Just like "Hamburg-er"...is common to Hamburg Germany........LMAO!!
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