How do you buy meat? If you are used to buy it packaged in a supermarket, and differ only pork from beef, you should master the skills, housewives known centuries ago
First of all, you need to buy beef on the market, highlighting the color: fresh meat should be red, not brown or yellow fat. Then, decide what purpose you buy beef that want to make out of it? Then use the scheme and our recommendations.
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What a piece of beef that is designed for
1. The dorsal part (Steak, thick edge, edge) - meat premium, the most expensive, is used for roasting and chops.
2. shoulder - soft, fibrous flesh, suitable for minced meat, hamburgers, meat balls and fire.
3. desperately - meat in this part a little, as a rule, it is used for cooking soups.
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4, 8. Shanks - chopped into pieces with the bone, they are good for making aspic.
5. brisket - suitable for soups, as well as for smoking and grilling.
6. Flank - a good fodder for all kinds of casseroles, meatballs, sausage and rolls.
7. Knuckle (thigh) - lean meat, with little or no fat, is used for goulash and meat rolls.
9. leg of beef - the best option for steaks, roast beefs, various meals cooked on a grill. This meat is considered lean.
10. sirloin - loose meat with fat, is suitable for cooking hamburgers and quickly fried.
11. sirloin - meat is a gourmet cook of his filet mignon, tournedos steaks, beef stroganoff.
What kind of meat to the touch
When choosing beef on the market, be sure to try to touch the piece that you offer. If the meat is turned sticky, do not buy. Another sign of freshness: fossa after pressing a finger should immediately smoothed. Otherwise, the meat is already old.
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