Know Your Cuts

(Photo: Flickr user Magnus Brath)
Shopping for meat can be overwhelming at times. There are do many different cuts and so many different preparations, it's hard to know what is best for the job. Heck, many cooks out there can't even point out where on the animal the meat comes from.

To fix that error, here's a few handy references for the cuts and what they mean. Just click the pictures to expand them and make them more readable.

Beef

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Venison

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Pork

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Lamb

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Comments

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Do they not teach kids ANYTHING useful in high school anymore? We had to fill out these charts to pass 9th grade Home-Ec.

[Brandi]

I didn't know any of this until my last year in college because I had to take (and pass) a meat science class prior to graduation.