Chain of Bull Cheese Steaks

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I cleaned and cooked five Costco tenderloins for a party for sixty. The cleaning and cooking went perfectly but then I had a frozen bag of five chains. I used them this Labor Day weekend for this recipe and. It was terrific.It feed 6 people for dinner.I used cheddar cheese.

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To me, this recipe was all about using the whole tenderloin as Alton intended. I can't tell you how many times I have disposed of the CHAIN thinking it had so much fat and silver skin--how could it ever taste good. Today I took the time and trimmed it up, pounded it, salt and peppered it--all the while thinking "I am not going to be able to eat this meat." After cooking--prior to sending it to the trash--I tasted it--OMG!--it was so juicy and tender and the flavor...WOW--I was very pleasantly surprised. I used his recipe for the meat only-- I put it on lettuce leaves with jack cheese and mushrooms which I cooked in a grill pan with the meat. Luckily I was the only one home so I got to enjoy the whole thing all by myself. Next time I will make it on a hoagie with the peppers and onions like he did and I think I just might share it with my husband and daughter. Now I know why the butcher saves it for himself. Mr. Butcher...your secret is out...thanks Alton.

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I made this and just used some Sirlions I had leftover from Sam's club along with a shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese and it turned out well. I also didn't do the last step as he didn't mention that on TV but overall was a great Sandwich, will definately be making it again. It makes for a nice quick meal!

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Mimolette has an ugly little secret: as it matures, it houses microscopic little nits called cheese mites. Though small they are choosy, preferring dark, damp places with minimal airflow, where they can gorge themselves silly on the rinds of developing cheese. The beauty is that their tunneling and nibbling promotes air flow and flavor development in many aged cheeses. In this case, start with a big bowling-ball shaped wheel. Then, give the wheel eighteen to twenty-four months to mature into a mite-ridden cannonball with craters deep enough to stick your fingertip in. Have no fear, the mites have departed by the time you eat the cheese

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Great with leftover steak. I add peppers and then make the thing in a panini press great reviews. MY family loves it. It's always for dinner the day after steak and I think they look forward to the sandwiches better than the steak.

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This is a great recipe - I otherwise wouldn't have known what to do with that piece of meat!

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It's a good recipe, but we found it to be a little on the sweet side from the onions. We used American cheese, maybe something sharper like cheddar would balance it out.

Also, my wife thinks the hoagie roll should be toasted. Next time, because there will be a next time.

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The meat tastes perfect! Best sandwich I've had in a long time.

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Very good...!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And it is all the moo delicious.
Ahem.
Barring the bad pun, this recipe was absolutely, positively, delicious!

I made this entirely from things on hand and it took a very leisurely half an hour to make - pressed for time and better organized someone could easily do it in 20 minutes.

I used a leftover tenderloin chain two days after a Beef Wellington dinner. I will try a different (cheaper cut of meat in the next week or so as I can't imagine buying an entire tenderloin just to use the chain in some sammiches.

I used American cheese as it was all I had on hand, I brought all my good cheese to a New Year's Eve party. I've never had Mimollette, but, the flavor of the American worked quite well indeed.

I also did not have hoagie buns on hand, luckily I had some incredibly good white bread from a local baker.

Unfortunately I did not have the recipe with me and was going purely by memory (I swear Alton ate it right after putting on the onions in the show.... I forgot the very last step of wrapping the sammiches in foil after putting on the cheese and onions. I will definitely do this next time, as the sandwhich wasn't quite "all there" when I first started eating it, but around halfway through it was melting together and the flavors combined into a Voltron-esque Super Combo Robot For Great Justice.

Only as a sandwhich, not a giant robot.

And it was delicious, not at all metallic and alkoloidy robot-ish tasting.

In spite of my own user errrors, this was an *incredible* sandwhich.
Thanks Alton!