Mr. House Husband’s Simple Kitchen Tips Series. This episode presents homemade meal is the best. Tips for choosing fresh, hygienic and safe meat.
Today, Mr. House Husband wants to share tips for selecting different kinds of meat. In the current situation, you should be very cautious about hygiene. The food you eat must be fresh and safe. All processes involved with your food must follow hygienic standards. You should pay extra attention when selecting fresh food.
Beef
Fresh beef should be red, while the fat is white. The meat should be firm and not leave a mark when you press it with your finger. Fresh meat should not have a sour or rotten smell.
Different cuts of meat
Sirloin is suitable for making roasted meat or steak. Good sirloin should contain intramuscular fat, giving it an appearance similar to a marble pattern.
Tenderloin is the most expensive, most tender and most delicious cut among different types of beef. Good tenderloin should not have much intramuscular fat.
Brisket is a cut of meat from the lower chest. It has a chewy texture, so it is suitable for making soups, stews or braising.
Plate is the fattiest meat cut, so it is suitable for making soup
Pork
Good pork should have a natural pink color. The fat should be a yellow color. Fresh pork should not have a rotten smell, greenish color, or feel slimy to the touch.
Different cuts of pork
Pork belly should have intramuscular fat. The meat should be tender. It is suitable for roasting, deep-frying and stir-frying.
Loin is a cut next to clear plate. It has less intramuscular fat and is usually used to make steak.
Tenderloin is the most tender cut with the least intramuscular fat. It can be cooked in various ways.
The leg has a tough texture and contains a lot of tendons. It is suitable for making stews.
Blade, or collar, is the toughest cut of pork. It is usually cooked by boiling or braising.
Chicken
Good chicken should have white skin, firm texture, not feel slimy to the touch or have a greenish color. If you buy a whole chicken, select the chicken with firm breasts, bright eyes, no bruises on the stomach, and no rotten smell.
Chicken can be cooked in various ways including boiling, streaming, braising, roasting and frying. It is well-known that chicken breast barely contains little fat. So it is good for those who are on a diet or health-conscious.
Fish
Fresh fish should have bright eyes, bright red gills, a firm texture and no rotten smell.
Squid
Fresh squid should have bright and clear eyes and no rotten smell. Its tentacles must be in perfect shape and have a firm texture. The meat should be firm and you should leave no marks when you press it. The skin should be intact.
Shrimp
Fresh shrimp should have bright eyes, tough and translucent shell, firm meat, and no rotten smell. The head and body should be firmly connected.
Shellfish
Fresh shellfish should have an undamaged and tightly closed shell. There should be no slime on the shell.
Crab
Fresh crab should have bright eyes, no rotten smell, and firm meat which shows no marks when you press it.
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