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- INFORMATION ABOUT THE PLATE
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- This underside cut contains the ends
- of rib bones 6 - 12. This less tender
- cut is used for ribs and ground beef.
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- PLATE RIBS
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- In effect, short ribs, but a less
- expensive cut than those from the
- Rib or Chuck section. Plate Ribs
- have end pieces of the rib rib bone
- with layers of fat and and cartilage
- in between.
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- SOUP MEAT AND BONES
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- Soup bone (bone with some meat
- attached) also comes from here.
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- SKIRT STEAK
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- Coarse fibrous muscles attached to
- diaphragm inside rib cage. There is
- roughly 1╜ lbs. per carcass.
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- BEEF BACON
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- Cured and thinly sliced strips with
- streaks of lean and fat.
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- a.k.a. Breakfast Beef
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- BEEF FOR BOILING
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- Less tender and less expensive meat
- requiring long cooking in water.
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