Steak and Shake Special Sauce

My sister made this with the chili recipe at a family reunion last week and all of my family loved it! We eat at Steak n Shake often (we're from Normal, IL where the first Steak n Shake opened) and it was nice having a bit of home in TN. Thanks!

This is it. My family has a long history with Steak N Shake. I, myself, worked there for over 2 years. I even won the title of The Master of the Grill for our area and came in second place in our district. This recipe is spot on. If you know anything about S N S chili macs, you know that their meat sauce is very unusual. That's what makes the defining difference. I have yet to discover their secrets, it always came to the restaurants prepackaged. The only suggestion that I have is to buy their chili. You can buy at at the restaurants and some grocery stores carry it. A couple Tbsp is enough to do the trick to give it that more authentic taste. BTW, they always used Heinz ketchup for the sauce.<br/><br/>They have changed very little over the years. The traditional chili mac doesn't have chili, it just has the meat sauce and the red sauce with the spaghetti. The chili 5 ways added chili, extra meat sauce, shredded Cheddar ?n jack cheese and diced onion (we used green onion back in the 80's, I think they use a different kind now). They always had Romano cheese and I think it gives it just the right finishing, B-A-M! (In the words of Emeril Lagasse.)

LOVE making Steak N Shake Chili at home!! This sauce is great! You can add more or less Worcestershire to taste. I have been making this sauce for years and never really knew the correct amounts to use. I taste the sauce to make sure it is not too ketchupy. =)

BLEH what a waste of ketchup and time. not even remotely close to S & S anything. BLEH BLEH BLEH

I made this exactly as called for and added it to our copy-cat Chili Mac, but we really disliked it! It wasn't as thick as the actual special sauce and was way too tangy. Not sure how to fix it, but I'll just skip making it next time.