PREPARE AND COOK MEAT

• TYPES OF KNIVES AND THEIR USES

  1.French Knife or Chef's Knife - for general chopping, slicing, and dicing.

  2.Utility Knife - used for carving roast chicken and duck

  3.Boning Knife - used for boning raw meats and poultry.

  4.Slicer - used for carving and slicing cooked meats

  5.Butcher Knife - used for cutting, sectioning, and trimming raw meats in the butcher shop.

  6.Scimitar or Steak Knife - used for accurate cutting of steaks

  7.Cleaver - used for cutting through bones.
• MEAT


  a term for the flesh of cattle (beef and veal), sheep (lamb) and pigs (pork). Meat comprises water, protein, fat, and various amounts of minerals and vitamins.
• BEEF


  divided into large sections called primal cuts. These beef primal cuts or "primal" are then broken down further into individual steak and other retail cuts. A "side" of beef is literally one side of the beef carcass that is split through the backbone. Each side is then halved between the 12th and 13th ribs into sections called the forequarter and hindquarter.
• PORK


  divided into large sections called primal cuts. These primal cuts are then broken down further into individual retail cuts.
• SHEEP


  also a staple food in some parts of the world and is consumed in many regions. Sheep meat is otherwise known as mutton (meat of mature sheep) or lamb (immature sheep) also classified as red meat
• WHAT IS PRIMAL CUT?

  -any of various wholesale cuts (as quarter, side, or ham) into which the carcass of a food animal is divided

  -There are between four and six primal cuts, which are the large parts in which the pig is first cut. The shoulder (blade and picnic), loin, belly (spareribs and side) and leg. These are often sold wholesale, as are other part of the pig with less meat, such as the head, feet, and tail.
• COMPOSITION OF MEAT

  -Water - 70% of muscle tissue

  -Protein - 20% of muscle tissue

  -Protein coagulates when it is heated. It becomes firmer and loses moisture. When protein has coagulated to the desired degree, the meat is said to be done.