>>22221988by cutting across the grain
>>22221988by finding the grain and cutting across it
>>22222013which direction is the grain running in this beef?
>>22222016ERMAHGERD BERGINER
>>22222016are you retarded or blind?
>>22222016It's running towards the hole vagina-looking hole in the middle
>>22221988with a knife, from what i understand
>>22222025>It's running towards the holefrom which direction? which one of these lines am i supposed to cut against?
observe the grain patterns and make perpendicular cuts
>>22222120Put penor in vagoo.
>>22222128what if i cant see the grain patterns on something lean like chicken or pork where it just looks like meat
>>22222211Then get your eyes checked because raw chicken breast most certainly has a grain pattern.
i dont understand the grain thing eitherso its some weird liens on the meat? how the fuck do you cut against that? just cut opposite direction? what? why?
>>22222246i know it does I'm just asking someone to explain it to me or show me an image of it and apparently nobody can explain it beyond "you just know"
>>22222263On the off-chance that you're not trolling, you see the white lines of fat inside the meat in >>22222016? That's the grain.
>>22222016Do you lack pattern recognition?
>>22222277so i should slice with the direction of the white lines? >>22222281what about this one
>>22222295Yeah, you slice in the direction of the white lines. Follow them as best you can and it will be perfect. For some cuts like that one it's not as skewed in one direction so you're right to have some confusion there, but whenever you can, cut along the white lines just like you said.
>>22221988
>>22221988So meat is muscles and muscles are dense bundles of fibers. Your goal in "cutting across the grain" is to sever those fibers. By severing the fibers, the resulting chunk/slice of meat is now a bundle of many short fibers, as opposed to if you cut the opposite way, you'd have fewer long fibers. This makes the meat come apart more easily when you chew it because you don't have to sever the fibers as much with your teeth.
>>22222298i think you're being very sarcastic right now and i don't appreciate it.
>>22222321You specifically asked if you should cut along the white lines I said yes you should. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic, I see why that pic would be confusing because there's really no "grain" to align your cutting. At that point you just cut to make your pieces consistent with your knife work where you have a grain to guide you.I was not trying to be a smartass about it, I read your comment as someone genuinely asking the question so I wanted to give a complete answer that also addressed the pic you posted there.
