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The Tasty Fat Outback Steakhouse Uses To Cook Steak By Cassie Womack Oct. 26, 2025 5:20 pm EST

Outback uses beef tallow for its Sydney 'Shrooms, Aussie Cheese Fries, and famous Bloomin' Onion. That goes for all of the chain's other deep-fried foods, too. This has led to some confusion: A few influencers, like brendaclips and zak_primalhealth , have claimed that the steaks are also cooked in tallow. However, Chef Efrem Cutler, who works as Vice President of Research & Development at Bloomin' Brands, Outback's parent company, set the record straight. Cutler told Tasting Table that Outback uses butter for all of its steaks.

Why? Because tallow doesn't add anything to the steak. The beef fat flavor is already there. Cutler explained that Outback loo

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