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Here’s how to slice against the grain so your hard work doesn’t go to waste. ... cutting against the grain could actually cause the meat to fall apart and create an unpleasant texture. You ...
The proper way to slice your steak to make it up to 4x easier to chew.
The "grain" refers to the alignment of muscle fibers in the meat. When you cut with the grain, those long fibers remain intact, resulting in chewier, sometimes stringy pieces.By slicing against ...
The meat industry strives to produce meat with standardized and guaranteed tenderness, since these characteristics are sought for by the consumers. [4] For that purpose a number of objective tests of tenderness have been developed, gauging meat resistance to shear force, most commonly used being Slice Shear Force test [5] and Warner–Bratzler Shear Force test.
The name "skirt steak" for the butcher's cut of beef diaphragm has been in use since at least the 19th century. The cut is defined as extending to the 10th rib in the early 20th century. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was formerly considered a less commercially mass-salable cut in America, hence its use for fajitas by the vaqueros in Texas.
Flap meat is a thin, fibrous and chewy cut that is marinated, cooked at high temperature to no more than rare and then cut thinly across the grain. [2] In many areas, flap steak is ground for hamburger or sausage meat, but in some parts of New England (US) it is cut into serving-sized pieces (or smaller) and called "steak tips".
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Beef is classified according to different parts of the cow, specifically "chest lao" (the fat on the front of the cow's chest), "fat callus" (a piece of meat on the belly of the cow), and diaolong (a long piece of meat on the back of the beef back), "neck ren" (a small piece of meat protruding from the shoulder blade of a beef) and so on.