Skip to content- Primal
- A large initial carcass section.
- Subprimal
- A smaller wholesale section fabricated from a primal.
- Marbling
- Intramuscular fat visible within lean muscle.
- Silverskin
- A tough connective membrane that does not render like fat.
- Grain
- The direction of muscle fibres.
- Braising
- Gentle cooking with some liquid in a covered environment.
- Carryover cooking
- Continued temperature rise after food leaves the heat.
- Mechanically tenderized
- Processed with blades or needles that can move surface bacteria inward.
