Just realized the old timer at the shop on 5th was right about cutting against the grain

Simon Lopez · 2026-10-10T21:45:03.444225+00:00

Was trimming a top sirloin last Tuesday and complaining to the guy next to me about how my slices kept tearing, and he just pointed at my board and said I was going with the grain on the wrong muscle. I brushed it off at first because I have been cutting meat for 11 years, but I tried it his way on the next one and the difference was night and day. Cost me about 20 minutes of redoing a 15 pound batch, but the texture came out way better and I have been doing it wrong this whole time on that specific cut. Anybody else have a moment like this where someone with half your experience points out something basic you missed?

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