bringing home the bacon
ever since i was little and saw the diagram of meat cuts in the dictionary, i've wanted to understand them better.
why is sirloin a prized cut? what makes muscles more or less tender? what is the impact of the animal's diet on meat quality?
so i signed up for a class through PDX meat collective to see what i could learn! we took apart an entire pig, breaking it down into proper cuts, learning about everything from professional knife skills to basic physiology.
i know some of you reading are vegetarians, and i respect that. i loved better understanding the process, however, and gaining what i call "pioneer skills", knowing we were supporting local pature-raised agriculture.
and the meat just tastes so much better, as we discovered at a shared lunch, the twelve of us students. not to mention each getting to take a substantial amount of the entire animal home with us, wrapped and labeled!
why is sirloin a prized cut? what makes muscles more or less tender? what is the impact of the animal's diet on meat quality?
so i signed up for a class through PDX meat collective to see what i could learn! we took apart an entire pig, breaking it down into proper cuts, learning about everything from professional knife skills to basic physiology.
i know some of you reading are vegetarians, and i respect that. i loved better understanding the process, however, and gaining what i call "pioneer skills", knowing we were supporting local pature-raised agriculture.
and the meat just tastes so much better, as we discovered at a shared lunch, the twelve of us students. not to mention each getting to take a substantial amount of the entire animal home with us, wrapped and labeled!
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