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Meats-NOCTI Review
Vocabulary Terms from the Culinary Arts Cirriculum
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Culinary Art
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03/19/2018

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Shrinkage
Definition
When meat looses water as it cooks
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Marbling
Definition
The fat that is within the muscle tissue
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Fat Cap
Definition
The fat that surrounds muscle tissue
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Barding
Definition
When you wrap a lean meat with fat
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Larding
Definition
When long thin strips of fat are inserted into the center of a lean meat
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Collagen
Definition
A soft, white tissue that breaks down during, slow and moist cooking techniques
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Elastin
Definition
A hard, yellow tissue that does not breakdown during cooking
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Primal Cuts
Definition
Sometimes called wholesale cuts, are large, primary pieces of meat separated from the animal
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Fabricated Cuts
Definition
Smaller meat portions that are taken from the primal cuts
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Processing
Definition
The act of changing pork by artificial means. Meat is cut, cured, aged or smoked
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Curing
Definition
The act of preserving pork with salt, sugar, spices, flavorings and nitrates
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Irradiation
Definition
The process of exposing pork to radiation to reduce the number of microorganisms
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High-heat cooking
Definition
The process of cooking meat over a high meat(grilling, baking, roasting, Broiing)
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Low-heat cooking
Definition
The best method of cooking techniques, the meat does not loose moisture thus not shrinking
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Demi-glace
Definition
A concentrated brown stock that has been reduced
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Grain
Definition
The direction of muscle fibers, or threads in meat. Cutting with the this will make the meat tough
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