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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
- 4.1.3 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