What is beef?

Beef meat is a piece of meat from the hind leg of a cow. The fat content of beef tenderloin is very small. If the fat around it is trimmed off, the fat content will be even less than that of filet. You don’t have to use beef to make steak.

Extended information

Identification method

Take a look to see if there are red spots on the skin of the meat. If there are no red spots, it is good meat; if there are red spots, it is bad meat; Look at the muscles, fresh meat is shiny and evenly red, inferior meat is slightly darker in color; look at the fat, the fat of fresh meat is white or light yellow, the fat of inferior meat lacks luster, and the fat of spoiled meat is green.

On the second smell, fresh meat has a normal smell, while inferior meat has an ammonia or sour smell.

Three touches, one is to touch the elasticity. Fresh meat is elastic, and the dents will recover immediately after acupressure. Defective meat has poor elasticity. The dents after acupressure will recover very slowly or even cannot be recovered. Deteriorated meat has no elasticity. ; Second, touch the viscosity. The surface of fresh meat is slightly dry or slightly moist and not sticky.

The surface of sub-fresh meat is dry or sticky, while the newly cut surface is moist and sticky. The spoiled meat is seriously sticky and the surface is extremely dry. , but some heavily watered meat is not sticky at all, but it can be seen that the surface is wet and not firm.

Dietary taboos

The taboos of beef are

1. It is not suitable to eat beef products that are repeatedly left hot or refrigerated and heated

2. People with excessive internal heat should not eat it

3. It is not suitable to eat smoked, roasted or pickled products

4. It is not suitable to cook with inappropriate cooking methods

5. It is not advisable to eat beef without thyroid removal

Reference: Beef. Baidu Encyclopedia