Flat Iron steaks come from the underblade of the arm, trim the silver and the fat then cut lengthwise, if you cut across the grain we call that a "patio" or a "Rancher", dave
Flateiron steaks are what we always called ckicken steaks. To make a flateiron steak, just take out the silver seam. I make Roasts out of them in the winter. Take the silver seam out ,cut it in half , put one half on top of the other and tie it together. Does anyone still use butcher twine or jet net!?
When i cut meat, I always have, like ends and peices of meat piled on my block . people see this and ask what is all this mess. I tell them it my money!! Then they're confused. I tell them it is for cubesteaks and stew!!
Another really good thing we do is run our cubes and pieces we can't use through our tenderizer and make it all up into minute steaks or even snitzel. For some reason people seem to really like our snitzel. The more times its ran through even if its falling apart or not people seem to really like that up here as long as the end product you sell them stay's together.
What many people don't know is that the top blade, or flat iron is the second tenderest beef muscle. Let you customers know this and it will add alot of profit to you should clods.
Wes, I had my first one about a week ago, I was amaze at how tender it was. This week I am going to run a instore special on them to see if I can get some interest in them.
Question. anyone that use the flat iron theirselfs, HOW do you cook yours and what do you put on it
i put mine in skillet,,with a lid and about 1/2 in of water in it,with mushrooms and onions,,greenpeppers,adobo..simmer for awhile till tender..like to try different recipes..