The Meat Cheat Sheet
This lovely graphic from the Cattlemen's Beef Board and the National Cattleman's Beef Association contains everything you need to know about beef cuts and how to cook each kind. Click here for a close-up. [via Doobybrain]
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10 Comments:
I would like this wallet size so I can take this with me when I'm shopping.
Hungryallthetime84 at 1:50PM on 08/06/09
Agreed. This is FANTASTIC!
lexophile at 1:56PM on 08/06/09
this is great, but one thing that's always bothered me (because i've seen it elsewhere) is that diagram of a cow at the top. for the lay person, it still doesn't look like a cow!! which is the front? the back? i'm assuming the front is on the left, but still, if they're trying to demystify meat, why not just put a picture of an actual cow, or at least an outline that's recognizable as one, up there. that thing looks like a map of the major arterial streets of a city.
mr guy at 2:24PM on 08/06/09
I had this poster on my dorm room wall in college.
Grill_Baron at 2:32PM on 08/06/09
You can right click on this and either "copy image" or "save image as" to a file in "Pictures" on your hard drive, then print it (do it as best photo on good glossy paper) with whatever photo printing software you have. Voila, wallet size - though I don't know that you can read it wallet size.
You could also edit your saved photo and just print out wallet size photos of the cuts you know you want to remember when you shop.
lemonfair at 2:38PM on 08/06/09
I agree that this is great, but I'd like to see it labeled with alternate names. Or, better yet, standardize the naming of meat bits.
emgroff at 3:03PM on 08/06/09
No offal = fail.
darkestcloud at 5:51PM on 08/06/09
Now we can be contestants on Letterman's "Know Your Cuts of Meat."
betteirene at 1:11AM on 08/07/09
@lemonfair: I chuckled at your idea. It's a great one, until you drop your wallet photo album and people look at you picking it up, expecting pictures of spouses, 20-year-old faded senior prom photos of friends, and little kid pictures, and see page after page of meat cuts...and watch the crowd around you slowly move a step at a time away from you.
Cassaendra at 2:25AM on 08/07/09
Left is front. This is designed for people breaking carcasses, so no offal is on it. Chuck is from the front, round is the back. This is the newest version as it has the new "value cuts" from chuck on it.
Similar charts are available at the veal producers site, pork council and other meat groups
Meat guy at 8:27AM on 08/07/09