Meat Flashcards
It is used for chopping, slicing and dicing
French knife or chef’s knife
used for carving roast chicken and duck.
Utility knife
used for boning raw meats and poultry.
Boning knife
used for carving and slicing cooked meats.
Slicer
used for cutting, sectioning and trimming raw meat.
Butcher knife
used for accurate cutting of steak.
Scimitar or Steak Knife-
used for cutting through bones.
Clever knife
meat from domesticated pigs, typically high in fat, commonly slaughtered one year or less of age to ensure tender cuts.
Pork
meat from cattle over one year old.
Beef
meats from domesticated sheep.
Lamb
meat from carabao.
Carabeef
meat from deer or goat.
Chevon
flesh of a young calf, 4-5 months old, because of its age, it is considered by some to be the finest meat.
Veal
It is a meat of the mature sheep
Mutton
It is a meat of the immature sheep
Lamb
These are broken down into individual steak and other retail cuts.
Primal cuts
it is the body of animals, a dressed body of animals that is ready for cutting up.
Carcass
It is comprises water, protein, fat and various vitamins and minerals.
Meat
5% of the muscle tissue
Fat
Yellow connective tissue and not broken down in cooking. Tenderizing can be accomplished only by removing the elastin by pounding, slicing and grinding.
Elastin
white connective tissue that dissolves or break down by long, slow cooking with liquid.
Collagen
it is the cutting of meat by determining the direction the grain.
Slicing
the addition of salt and pepper to improve flavor.
Seasoning
is the fat that is deposited within the muscle tissue.
Marbling