Beef Cuts Quiz

[TN Cattle Man]

So how well do you know where your cuts of beef come from? Take this simple quiz and find out!

http://www.americancattlemen.com/quizzes/beef-cuts-quiz

 

[TN Cattle Man]

I guess 10 out of 12 is not that bad!!

 

[Bigfoot]

12 right for me. I was a butcher for 3 days once. I guess I remembered more than I thought I would.

 

[Caustic Burno]

12 right for me. I was a butcher for 3 days once. I guess I remembered more than I thought I would.

Journeyman butcher for years in the old days was rough way to make a living.

 

[TN Cattle Man]

12 right for me. I was a butcher for 3 days once. I guess I remembered more than I thought I would.

Journeyman butcher for years in the old days was rough way to make a living.

This may sound crazy, but I have always thought that being a butcher would be a great job! I guess I have too many good memories of going down to the local butcher shop with my parents when I was young. The "Local Butcher" seems to be a thing of the past these days.

 

[Craig Miller]

I got 7. It's not cause I knew them though. Good thing it was multiple choice. :oops:

 

[TexasBred]

So how well do you know where your cuts of beef come from? Take this simple quiz and find out!

http://www.americancattlemen.com/quizzes/beef-cuts-quiz

I'm smart enough to know that I'm too dumb to take the test and if I did I sure wouldn't reveal the results. :lol: :lol:

 

[Caustic Burno]

12 right for me. I was a butcher for 3 days once. I guess I remembered more than I thought I would.

Journeyman butcher for years in the old days was rough way to make a living.

This may sound crazy, but I have always thought that being a butcher would be a great job! I guess I have too many good memories of going down to the local butcher shop with my parents when I was young. The "Local Butcher" seems to be a thing of the past these days.

I started the apprenticeship when you broke down a hind or fore quarter with a bone saw,knife
and cleaver. It was a year before I got the privilege of the ban saw.
Absolutely nothing worse than cutting chickens fresh they come packed in ice.
The reason I said it was a young mans job back in the day I was butchering 40 head a week
along with chicken and pork. It will put some guns on you from toting those fore and hind quarters.
I believe all my back problems today go back to those days.

 

[greybeard]

Better to let the world think I'm dumb than to take the test and remove all doubt

 

[bball]

Journeyman butcher for years in the old days was rough way to make a living.

This may sound crazy, but I have always thought that being a butcher would be a great job! I guess I have too many good memories of going down to the local butcher shop with my parents when I was young. The "Local Butcher" seems to be a thing of the past these days.

I started the apprenticeship when you broke down a hind or fore quarter with a bone saw,knife
and cleaver. It was a year before I got the privilege of the ban saw.
Absolutely nothing worse than cutting chickens fresh they come packed in ice.
The reason I said it was a young mans job back in the day I was butchering 40 head a week
along with chicken and pork. It will put some guns on you from toting those fore and hind quarters.
I believe all my back problems today go back to those days.

My first real job!!! I had 2 uncles who were butchers, so when I turned 14, they paid me 2 bucks an hour to lug frozen quarters around, clean up saws, mop floors and on rare occasions, trim a few steaks. Man, I thought I was walking in tall cotton back then!

 

[Nesikep]

TB... I'm with you!... I know I wouldn't do well on it

 

[slick4591]

All I'll say is I'm not ready to open a butcher shop.

 

[Caustic Burno]

All I'll say is I'm not ready to open a butcher shop.

For a small fee I can have you humming in a week after you purchase the equipment at
a small fortune. The apprenticeship is just a low paid grunt for about 23 months out of the 24.

 

[M-5]

My dad made a career out of being a butcher 45yrs and if you count the private butcher business since his retirement its been 52yrs . I started in the same business and cut meat for several yrs then went into the management side. It used to be a great job that required a lot of skill. In todays world you can train a monkey to be a butcher as the skill has been removed and all you have to do is know a few knife tricks.

 

[slick4591]

All I'll say is I'm not ready to open a butcher shop.

For a small fee I can have you humming in a week after you purchase the equipment at
a small fortune. The apprenticeship is just a low paid grunt for about 23 months out of the 24.

Sounds like an offer too good to be true. I'll pass. :lol:

 

[bball]

My dad made a career out of being a butcher 45yrs and if you count the private butcher business since his retirement its been 52yrs . I started in the same business and cut meat for several yrs then went into the management side. It used to be a great job that required a lot of skill. In todays world you can train a monkey to be a butcher as the skill has been removed and all you have to do is know a few knife tricks.

Amen dash! IBP does it everyday...except they train Mexican and Burmese immigrants to do it.

 

[Caustic Burno]

My dad made a career out of being a butcher 45yrs and if you count the private butcher business since his retirement its been 52yrs . I started in the same business and cut meat for several yrs then went into the management side. It used to be a great job that required a lot of skill. In todays world you can train a monkey to be a butcher as the skill has been removed and all you have to do is know a few knife tricks.

Amen dash! IBP does it everyday...except they train Mexican and Burmese immigrants to do it. :lol:

Went in the other day to the local store and ask for an eye of round.
Butcher replied they didn't have one as they didn't order any.
I seriously doubt if a meat cutter today could actually break down a side of beef. :lol: :lol:
Bet most think the hole in the cleaver is to hang it.

 

[Nesikep]

It's extremely hard to find a good butcher here.. one who knows what they're doing, who puts the good cuts where they're supposed to go, and doesn't stew and burger half your sirloins.. And to top it off you want to get YOUR meat back, and ALL of it without getting it pinched... when one of my steers went in and was 940 lb hanging and got 650 lbs of meat back, I was pretty happy.. when you get under half of it back from a prime animal it makes you wonder (and I've heard the stories).

CB, I would be just one of those butchers.. so tell me what the hole in the cleaver is for!

 

[Caustic Burno]

It's extremely hard to find a good butcher here.. one who knows what they're doing, who puts the good cuts where they're supposed to go, and doesn't stew and burger half your sirloins.. And to top it off you want to get YOUR meat back, and ALL of it without getting it pinched... when one of my steers went in and was 940 lb hanging and got 650 lbs of meat back, I was pretty happy.. when you get under half of it back from a prime animal it makes you wonder (and I've heard the stories).

CB, I would be just one of those butchers.. so tell me what the hole in the cleaver is for!

Heavy beef fore quarters had the neck skewered to the body with a wooden skewer.
It was to pull the skewer.
Good gravy I couldn't even pick up a heavy beef fore quarter today they would run 250 to 275 pounds
half a century ago.
Do they still quarter heavy beef? Does it all go to hamburger today at the slaughter house?

 

[M-5]

It was also used to pull the nose pins