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Veal - Meat Cuts Manual

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Table of Contents

Diagram of Meat Cuts
Skeletal Diagram
Meat Cut Nomenclature and Description

  1. Veal
  2. Dressed Veal Carcass
    • 2.1 Front Quarter
    • 2.2 Hind Quarter
  3. Side
    • 3.1 Quartier avant
    • 3.2 Quartier arrière
  4. Front - Front, Double
    • 4.1 Neck
    • 4.2 Shoulder - Shoulder, Double
    • 4.3 Breast
    • 4.4 Shank
  5. Leg - Leg, Double
    • 5.1 Shank
    • 5.2 Leg, Shank Portion/Bas
    • 5.3 Leg, Butt Portion/
    • 5.4 Heel of Round
    • 5.5 Sirloin Tip
    • 5.6 Sirloin - Sirloin, Double
    • 5.7 Leg, Short Cut
    • 5.8 Rump
    • 5.9 Round
    • 5.10 Inside Round
    • 5.11 Outside Round
    • 5.12 Eye of Round
  6. Whole Loin - Whole Loin Double
    • 6.1 Loin - Loin, Double
      • 6.1.1 Strip Loin
      • 6.1.2 Tenderloin
    • 6.2 Rib - Rib, Double
      • 6.2.1 Rib Eye
  7. Flank
  8. Rib and Flank

List of Meat Cut Modifiers
Variety Meats