Beef Cuts

beefcuts

Fillet Steak

This comes in various guises.

  • Cut across into neat thick (2.5cm / 1 inch) slices, it becomes tournedos.
  • A neat piece for 2-3 people, weighing perhaps 225g / 8 oz cut from the thick end (but with all the coarser meat trimmed from it), can be grilled, spitted or roasted as a chateaubriand.
  • Medallions are thin neat slices cut across the fillet.

Sirloin Steak

The name sirloin covers steak from the upper side of the true sirloin, wing rib and fore rib.

  • The French entrecte means only the true tender sirloin, which is cut in individual steaks or as T-bone steaks (on the rib, with the sirloin on one side of the T and the fillet or under cut on the other).
  • French cte de boeuf or our rib of beef are thick steaks on the rib bone, from the slightly less tender wing rib or fore rib.
  • Porterhouse is a double-sized T bone or double sized wing rib.

Beef for Roasting

Sirloin, fore rib, fillet

Beef for Pot Roasting

Topside, silverside, brisket, thick flank.

Beef for Stewing and Braising

Chuck, shin, brisket, flank, neck, topside, silverside.

These cuts are also suitable for salting and boiling.

Beef for Grilling and Frying:

Fillet, rump and sirloin. But the names for steaks can be confusing: Rump steaks: (rumsteck in French): these are thick (about 2 cm / 3/4 inch) slices cur across the grain of the rumps, and then, if for individual servings, cut into smaller, neater pieces.

Beef for Pies

Chuck, brisket, thick flank, shin (foreleg), shin or leg (hind leg).

Some Popular Beef Cuts

Tenderloin Roast

Tenderloin Roast

Rib Eye Roast

Rib Eye Roast

Dry Aged Angus Striploin Roast

Dry Aged Angus Striploin Roast

Boneless Sirloin Steak

Boneless Sirloin Steak