How to Cut Your Meat Properly

Methods for Cutting Your Meat

How to cut meat? There are many ways you'll see now. There are several ways to cut your meat, depending on the dishes you want to prepare, and it must be cut in a certain way.

Before you start in your kitchen, know that you need equipment such as a good cutting board, but above all a very good knife, such as the Damascus knives; that we offer in our shop.

Cutting Your Meat, Different Techniques

In Scallop

Scallops are slices of meat that we know very well especially for poultry, but scallops are not reserved entirely for poultry, veal can also be cut into escalopes, and can also be used for pork meat. In summary, they are actually just thin slices of meat.

The cut

For the cut, place your hand flat on your piece of meat, and cut underneath; towards the thickness of the meat.

In slices

The slice is the basic cut in the kitchen, whether it's pork, beef or mutton, we can cut slices in almost all meats, even turkey and ham slices!

The cut

It is a classic cut in the cooking world, which can be used by all meats. Cut with a quick and sharp blow to the desired thickness, especially taking care to cut perpendicular to the fibers of the meat.

In cubes

When we cut the meat into cubes, it's mainly to cook it quickly, and then to place it in a sauce, to concoct a small simmered dish.

These preparations are often common, so we can easily find in the market meats already ready and cut into cubes. If you can't find any, then we take out our damascus chef's knife.

The cut

Cut your meat by holding your knife upright and cutting the meat into cubes with a quick blow.

This cube cut is often used for the preparation of simmered dishes of the kind: a lamb tagine; beef bourguignon; curry chicken or pork.

In thin strips

To properly cut thin slices of meat, you need to be well equipped, the main accessory, a knife made for this ; which is known by the name of Santoku knife. Because the hollows on its blade allow it to cut the meat without it sticking to its blade, it is ideal for a perfect and clean cut!

The cut

To make thin slices, the famous Santoku knife is by far, the most appropriate, its hollows on its blade will help cut the meat without it sticking to the blade. To start with, cut your good piece at an angle, the technique lies in the uniformity of all your movements and the thinness of your meat slices.

In minced meat

For minced meat, it is one of the basic products in culinary culture. With minced meat, you can make stuffed tomatoes, Parmentier hash, bolognese pasta, meatballs or meat bricks.

The cut

There are two techniques for chopping meat, the first with a meat grinder, and the second with a blender

In strip

If we cut a meat into strips, it's mainly for two good reasons:

The first reason is to be able to preserve it while drying it, we cut several strips to then dehydrate them.

The second reason is that when cut into strips, the meat can cook more easily whereas when it is in the form of a steak, it is longer and more complicated. Many recipes are prepared with beef or chicken cut into strips, mainly in Asian cuisine, to cut the meat into strips without damaging it, you have to forget the toothed knife, and take a knife to cut or a knife.

The cut

There aren't really any ways to cut your meat into strips.

There you have it, now you know how to cut your meat in several different ways to make various dishes.