Fuel & Fuddle Unveils Secret Recipes After 27 Years

While some students liken life to the red solo cup parties held in Greek life basements, others assert that it truly begins only after graduation caps take flight. However, seasoned philosophers understand that life is most enriching when shared over a good meal. For nearly three decades, Fuel and Fuddle provided such meals, serving as a beloved gastropub for students and Pittsburgh locals alike.

After 27 years, the Fuel and Fuddle gastropub is closing Friday, May 26th. While rising rent has done them in, they’re offering their secret recipes so they may have another lease at life. As Sklumper pointed out, “This is the drunken college student equivalent of obtaining the Krabby Patty Secret Formula.”

Here is what generations of Pitt and CMU students enjoyed. Now you can too:

Chipotle Horseradish Sauce

Mix it. 5 Pound Tub. Mix it.

• 1 tub sour cream
• 1 gallon mayo
• ¼ cup lemon juice
• 1 quart horseradish
• 4 cups ground chipotle peppers

Buffalo Wing Sauce

• 2 gallon hot sauce
• 1 gallon butter it
• 1 ½ cups crushed red pepper
• ½ cup garlic powder

Blue Cheese Dressing

• 1 tub sour cream
• 1 gallon mayo
• ½ cup hot sauce
• ½ bag crumbled blue cheese
• ½ cup granulated garlic
• 2 tbsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp salt
• ¼ cup lemon juice

Garlic Mayo

• 1 gallon mayo
• ½ cup lemon juice
• ¼ cup black pepper
• ¼ granulated garlic

Jamaican Jerk Wing Sauce

• ½ gallon butter-it
• ½ gallon hot sauce
• 1.5 cups jerk seasoning
• 1 cup red pepper flakes

Skinny Dip

Steps: Mix cream cheese and hot sauce in coupe, then mix chicken in big mixer with paddle until chopped, next add blue cheese to chicken, lastly add in all remaining ingredients.

• 2 trays chicken cooked in pizza oven
• 1 block cream cheese softened
• 2 cups sour cream
• 1 ½ cups blue cream
• ½ gallon buffalo sauce
• 1 package ranch seasoning

Joe Mama’s Meatloaf

• 10 pounds ground beef
• 6 eggs
• 2 red onions
• 2 green peppers
• ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
• 1 bottle A-1
• ¼ montreal season
• ¼ black pepper
• ¼ cup chopped garlic
• 4 cups bread

Topping:

• 1 cup BBQ sauce
• ½ bottle A-1
• ¼ cup ketchup
• ¼ cup brown sugar

Directions:

1. Pour Worcestershire in Hobart mixer
2. Add beef, salt, pepper, garlic and mix
3. Chop onions and peppers with a bottle of A-1 in little mixer
4. Add to beef
5. Add 4 cups bread crumbs and mix
6. Form into 2 loaves. Mix topping and top the loaf.
7. Cook at 350 until 165 internal (about 1.5 to 2 hours)

Honey Mustard Dressing

• 1 gallon mayonnaise
• 4 cups Dijon mustard
• 4 cups Whole Grain mustard
• 2 cups honey

Carolina Gold Wing Sauce

• 1 gallon Cattlemen’s Carolina BBQ sauce
• 1 cup BBQ sauce
• 1 cup whole grain mustard
• 1 tbsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp red pepper flakes.