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The meat can come from various parts of the sheep, but the most common is the hind legs. A whole leg on the bone, with an adequate layer of fat, is by many considered the best of all, [ 5 ] although others prefer the convenience of a boned roll of meat or want most of the fat trimmed off.
A cooked lamb shank. A meat shank or shin is the portion of meat around the tibia of the animal, the leg bone beneath the knee and shoulder. [1] American beef cuts: shank shown in red. Lamb shanks are often braised whole; veal shanks are typically cross-cut. Some dishes made using shank include: Bulalo, a Filipino beef shank stew.
Rack of lamb is often French trimmed (also known as Frenching in the United States), that is, the rib bones are exposed by cutting off the fat and meat covering them. Typically, three inches (7–8 cm) of bone beyond the main muscle (the rib eye or Longissimus dorsi ) are left on the rack, with the top two inches (5 cm) exposed.
A sheep in its first year is called a lamb, and its meat is also called lamb. The meat of a juvenile sheep older than one year is hogget; outside North America this is also a term for the living animal. [1] The meat of an adult sheep is mutton, a term only used for the meat, not the living animal.
Spoiled meat changes color and exudes a foul odor. Ingestion can cause serious food poisoning. Salt-curing processes were developed in antiquity [9] in order to ensure food safety without relying on then unknown anti-bacterial agents. The short shelf life of fresh meat does not pose significant problems when access to it is easy and supply is ...
Pork chops Lamb chops with new potatoes and green beans A plate of lamb chops from a Greek restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A meat chop is a cut of meat cut perpendicular to the spine, and usually containing a rib or riblet part of a vertebra and served as an individual portion. The most common kinds of meat chops are pork and lamb.
Meat cuts as depicted in Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) A primal cut or cut of meat is a piece of meat initially separated from the carcass of an animal during butchering . Examples of primals include the round, loin, rib, and chuck for beef or the ham, loin, Boston butt, and picnic for pork.
Lamb is the most expensive of the three types, and in recent decades, sheep meat has increasingly only been retailed as "lamb", sometimes stretching the accepted distinctions given above. The stronger-tasting mutton is now hard to find in many areas, despite the efforts of the Mutton Renaissance Campaign in the UK.