What’s on the Cuts of Beef poster
A 7-row table: Cut · From · Cook.
Working muscles have more connective tissue, which needs slow moist heat to become gelatine.
- Fillet — Lower back, does little — Fast, hot, rare
- Sirloin / ribeye — Back — Fast, hot
- Rump — Hindquarter — Fast, but tougher
- Brisket — Chest, works hard — Very slow
- Shin / shank — Leg — Very slow — best for stew
- Chuck — Shoulder — Slow braise
- Short rib — Ribs — Slow braise
The cheapest cuts have the most flavour and need the most time. Shin makes better stew than fillet ever could.
Questions about the Cuts of Beef poster
- What’s on the Cuts of Beef poster?
- A 7-row table: Cut · From · Cook. Working muscles have more connective tissue, which needs slow moist heat to become gelatine. Fillet — Lower back, does little — Fast, hot, rare; Sirloin / ribeye — Back — Fast, hot; Rump — Hindquarter — Fast, but tougher; Brisket — Chest, works hard — Very slow; Shin / shank — Leg — Very slow — best for stew; Chuck — Shoulder — Slow braise; Short rib — Ribs — Slow braise. The cheapest cuts have the most flavour and need the most time. Shin makes better stew than fillet ever could.
- Who is the Cuts of Beef poster for?
- Cuts of Beef belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Cuts of Beef poster?
- Muscles that worked hard need time. Muscles that did little need speed. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Cuts of Beef belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Cuts of Beef?
- Storing Bread, Cheese and Chillies sit alongside Cuts of Beef in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Storing BreadCheeseChillies
- Is the Cuts of Beef poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Cuts of Beef downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Cuts of Beef poster print at?
- Cuts of Beef is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Cuts of Beef loses nothing.Printing guide
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