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- kchur
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I read that the Flat Iron Steak was only invented in 2002 when researchers from the University of Nebraska spent three years analyzing dead cow muscle in order to find an as-yet undiscovered quality cut of beef. My questions are:
1) If people have been butchering cattle for thousands of years, how would they not have noticed this? Did they not know there was muscle up there or what?
2) What happened to the meat before it was discovered? Just chopped at indiscriminately? Divided between two unrelated cuts? Made into ground beef?
I read this a couple weeks ago and it's really been bugging me.
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Re: Does anyone know anything about butchering cattle?
Oh, and please don't use any complicated butchering nomenclature. I am an absolute beginner. Talk to me like a child who's never butchered.
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Re: Does anyone know anything about butchering cattle?
I would only be guessing but it is most likely that you would need a knife for removeing the meat from that area and it is time consumming so they used that bone for soup or feeding the dog.
ive butchered plenty of livestock but ive never head of the cut.(farm boy not butcher)
and this is what happens when I drink
Re: Does anyone know anything about butchering cattle?
According to this article (http://bbq.about.com/od/steaks/a/aa051207a.htm) the problem was that some strong connective tissue ran through the middle of it, but now they have developed a better cutting technique.
Re: Does anyone know anything about butchering cattle?
ty to the both of you. Damn I love this site.
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Re: Does anyone know anything about butchering cattle?
>Jnusb416 wrote:
Your article link failed!! lol! Ok! So the cutting technique would be a lot simpler if they would switch to Cutco from Olean New York style. One chop and the job is done. As far as butchering cows they had an episode on some t.v. network showing animal cruelty. Although the cow was gonna be killed eventually they slaughtered it by hanging him upside down by the legs and using a machine to swing it around at the same time they took turns playing slice the cow pinata with a rusty blade.
If you think that was bad they also hack off the head of a chicken and let it run around! It's like a chicken with it's head cut off. No it really is! I'm serioius it really is! Like Seriously!
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