Comments on: Iowa Style Maid-Rite Sandwiches Recipe

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:23:09 +0000

In reply to Deena Purvis. Interesting - so he added soda (Coke?) to the liquid? I'm intrigued!

By: marccrand

marccrand — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:56:12 +0000

I grew up in Iowa having never heard of Maid-Rite. I’ve had them a few times and they’re not my favorite but my roommate had a hankering tonight. Because the malls are closed or have weird hours because of COVID we googled for another option and saw another in Norwalk – a pretty long haul from our home. I knew I’d seen one in Grimes but it doesn’t come up on google. So if you’re in the Des Moines area just know there is one combined with a Broaster Chicken on the end of a little strip mall right off Rt 141 and SE 37th Street (Subway is on the other end of the strip). It even has a drive-thru so if you don’t want to try any of the many variations in these comments go try the real thing. I’m sure they could use the business in this challenging economy.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 02:38:04 +0000

Great recipe! Quick and delicious! Thanks so much for sharing.

By: Deena Purvis

Deena Purvis — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 22:40:23 +0000

I was right next to the owner of maid-rite while he was preparing the meat. He had a bottle of pop. And a dented up restaurant shaker. And he was mixing the ground beef up by hand. In a big square dishpan Then as we spoke we went upstairs where he flipped it into the big sink looking vat and pulled the cover down. Then he went into the vat with two spatulas and stirred until ground small and dipped the grease out of the lower part of the vat. The days buns were delivered fresh. I had seen dehydrated minced onions in big restaurant spice containers.downstairs. While upstairs they were in a bowl getting reconstituted. Salt shaker and dented shaker upon done ground beef. Lidded again ready for the building of a maide-rite. Hold the hamburger bun open in nondominant Hand. Take a spatula of yellow mustard slather on one side put two big or 3 smaller pickles on and a teaspoon of drained onions then fill full of hamburger until at a angle from one bun to the other Wrap in hamburger paper. Put all other items on tray and a spoon with ketchup and eat all of the delicious ground hamburger if you can. Hint if it seems too “dry”. Ask for a wet one from closer to the lower liquid vat. It is not all grease. It is a liter of soda pop. Good luck

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:25:59 +0000

In reply to Deb. Ohhhhh that sounds so good! Thanks for the tip!

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:49:24 +0000

In reply to Annie. Cheddar rites are good too,just 1 can of cheese whiz per lb of beef

By: Brian Bland

Brian Bland — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:38:25 +0000

Fred Angell was a butcher in Muscatine, Iowa, who combined a special cut and grind of meat with a selected set of spices and created the Maid-Rite sandwich. Angell opened his first restaurant in Muscatine. The first franchise was opened in Durant, Iowa and was named ‘Porky’s Maid-Rite I grew up in Durant in the 50’s-60’s and a treat was getting a maid-rite and frosty mug of A&W root beer.

By: Debbie Winters

Debbie Winters — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:05:29 +0000

In reply to MAB. I'm from MO.and have been to Rolla numerous times. Never knew there was a Maid-Rite there. I thought the only one around was in Hannibal. My family is from Iowa near the original Maid-Rite and loved having these when we visited.