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- BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT CHUCK
-
- Basic Forequarter cut containing ribs
- 1 through 5 without Neck, Brisket, and
- Foreshank. Constitutes about a quarter
- of the carcass. Muscles run in different
- directions and vary in tenderness. This
- is cut to give a wide variety of retail
- cuts like steaks, roasts, ground beef,
- soup bones, and short ribs.
-
- ARM BONE (O-BONE) ROAST
-
- Contains cross section of round arm bone
- surrounded by the forearm, brisket, and
- shoulder muscles. Sometimes found boned,
- rolled and tied.
-
- a.k.a. Arm Bone Pot Roast, Round Bone
- Roast, O-Bone Shoulder Roast
-
- BLADE ROASTS AND STEAKS
-
- Cut 1╜-3 inches from Rib end of scetion.
- Usually 3 roasts per section, with varying
- amount of blade bone and sometimes part of
- the back and rib bones. Portions of the
- Flat Iron, Chuck Tender and inside chuck
- muscles surround the blade bone. Blade
- steaks are just thinner cuts.
-
- a.k.a. 7-Bone Roast, Chuck Blade Roast,
- Center Cut Blade Roast, Blade Cut Pot
- Roast
-
- BONELESS ROLLED CHUCK ROASTS
-
- Tender rolled and tied roasts cut from
- the large meaty outside shoulder clod
- muscle weighing some 12-16 lbs. Usually
- cut into smaller roasts 3 lbs and up.
- Boneless steaks are also cut from this
- section.
-
- a.k.a. Cross Rib Roast, Shoulder Clod
- Roast, X-Rib Roast, Diamond Jim Roast
-
- steaks a.k.a. Cross Rib Steak, Shoulder
- Clod Steak, Fluff Steak, Patio Steak,
- Family Steak, BBQ Steak
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- CHUCK TENDER ROAST
-
- Lean and tender 2-3 lb. muscle from
- top of section near back bone.
-
- a.k.a. Chuck Filet, Shoulder Filet,
- Medallion Roast
-
- FLAT IRON ROAST
-
- Tender traingular shoulder muscle about
- 3 lbs. Covered with layer of outside fat
- and has sheath of gristle horizontally
- through the center. One per side of Beef.
-
- INSIDE CHUCK ROAST
-
- Tender boned and rolled roast cut from the
- continuation of the rib eye muscle in the
- rib section.
-
- a.k.a. Chuckwagon Roast
-
- When bone is left in:
-
- English Roast, which usually has 2 or 3 rib
- bones attached.
-
- RIB TRIANGLE
-
- Thin tiangular piece containing 4 or 5
- ribs and attached meat.
-
- YANKEE POT ROAST
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- Less tender bone-in or boneless roast
- cut from the neck section.
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