How To Cut Beef Videos

How to Breakdown a whole Beef Carcass

shows how to butcher a carcass, breaking it down into Primal Cuts, sub-Primal cuts, and a variety of roasts & steaks.

How Beef is Graded

Discusses the USDA grading process for yield and quality including Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Cutter, and Canner.

10 Specs of Certified Angus Beef

The specs rate: marbling, texture, animal age, ribeye size, animal weight, fat, muscle tone, capillary ruptures, no dark cutters, neck hump.

Blade & Feather Steaks

Hanger Steak

He could have a better yield.

Skirt Steak

How to prep a Skirt Steak

Striploin Fabrication

Great demo on cutting NY Steaks, including info about “vein steaks”.

Tenderloin Steaks

Shows how to trim, remove silver skin, cut, and utilize the Head, Chain, and Tenderloin.

Top Sirloin – Baseball or Pave Steaks

Top Sirloin demo starts at 4:19
Shows the breakdown of Top Sirloin into Baseball, Barrel, or Pave steaks. It also shows the Striploin, Ribeye, and Tenderloin.

Brisket

Part 1 of 4
Malcom Reed of How ToBBQRight shows how to trim a Brisket for competition.

Brisket

Part 2 of 4
Malcom Reed of How ToBBQRight shows how to trim a Brisket for competition.
Trim a Brisket – Part 3
Trim a Brisket – Part 4