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Beef - Meat Cuts Manual

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Table of Contents

Diagram of Meat Cuts
Skeletal Diagram
Meat Cut Nomenclature and Description

  • 1. Beef
  • 2. Dressed Beef
  • 3. Beef Side
  • 4. Front Quarter
    • 4.1 Chuck
      • 4.1.1 Shoulder Clod
        • 4.1.1.1 Top Blade
        • 4.1.1.2 Top Blade Portion
      • 4.1.2 Blade
        • 4.1.2.1 Bottom Blade
      • 4.1.3 Neck
      • 4.1.4 Cross Rib
      • 4.1.5 Shoulder
      • 4.1.6 Chuck Short Rib
    • 4.2 Rib
      • 4.2.1 Rib Eye
      • 4.2.2 Short Ribs
      • 4.2.3 Prime Rib
    • 4.3 Plate
    • 4.4 Brisket
    • 4.5 Full Brisket
    • 4.6 Shank
  • 5. Hind Quarter
    • 5.1 Flank
    • 5.2 Loin
      • 5.2.1 Short Loin
        • 5.2.1.1 Porterhouse
        • 5.2.1.2 T-Bone
        • 5.2.1.3 Wing
        • 5.2.1.4 Tenderloin
        • 5.2.1.5 Strip Loin, Bone-in
        • 5.2.1.6 Strip Loin
      • 5.2.2 Sirloin
        • 5.2.2.1 Sirloin, Tenderloin Removed
        • 5.2.2.2 Top Sirloin
        • 5.2.2.3 Top Sirloin, Cap Removed
        • 5.2.2.4 Bottom Sirloin
    • 5.3 Hip
      • 5.3.1 Rump
      • 5.3.2 Round
        • 5.3.2.1 Inside Round
        • 5.3.2.2 Outside Round
        • 5.3.2.3 Eye of Round
        • 5.3.2.4 Round, Eye Removed
      • 5.3.3 Heel of Round
      • 5.3.4 Shank
      • 5.3.5 Sirloin Tip
        • 5.3.5.1 Eye of Sirloin Tip
        • 5.3.5.2 Sirloin Tip, Eye Removed

Variety Meats
List of Meat Cut Modifiers