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If you look closely at your steak (or, any piece of meat, for that matter), you’ll notice a bunch of lines that run parallel to each other. That’s it: the grain.
This is important to note, because it means that you want to cook your steak 5 to 10 degrees under your ideal final temperature, as the meat will continue to cook while resting.
Cook the steak in a pan or on a grill to medium-rare to ensure the most tenderness and get those juices flowing. You should let your steak rest for a few minutes before slicing it against the grain.
Cube steak or cubed steak is a cut of beef, usually top round or top sirloin, tenderized and flattened by pounding with a meat tenderizer. The name refers to the shape of the indentations left by that process (called "cubing"). [1] This is the most common cut of meat used for the American dish chicken-fried steak.
The Ranch steak comes from the chuck cut of a cow, namely the shoulder. Technically it is called a "boneless chuck shoulder center cut steak", but supermarkets usually use the shorter and more memorable term: "Ranch steak". A ranch steak is usually cut no thicker than one inch, weighs 10 ounces or less, and is usually trimmed of all excess fat ...
refers to a steak from the top half of an American-cut round steak primal or a British- or Australian-cut steak from the rump primal, largely equivalent to the American sirloin. Sirloin steak A steak cut from the hip, near the cow's rear. Also tends to be less tough, resulting in a higher price. Outside skirt steak A steak made from the diaphragm.
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BURCU ATALAY TANKUT/Getty Images. The T-bone cut comes from the same part of the cow as a porterhouse (the short loin), but it’s taken from the front instead of the back.