Beef

Top Blade Steak

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Description

Top blade steaks are cut from the shoulder of the animal. More specifically, the blade portion of the chuck. Cut from a large muscle on the shoulder blade, the infraspinatus, the top blade has a thick tendon running though the middle of it. This tendon dose all the work for the muscle and needs to be cooked low and slow in order to break it down into gelatin.

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