How to Tenderize Meat

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Place your cut of meat on a cutting board.

   If you want, you can lay a piece of wax paper under and on top of the meat to reduce the mess made by this method.
   
   Note: you should not put wax paper on top of the meat if you are planning on using a knife.
   
   Keep in mind that using metal tools to tenderize your meat will break up both the meat’s connective tissue and the meat fibers themselves.
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   Step 2: Choose your tenderizing tool.

   There are two options that will work the best during mechanical tenderisation.
   
   Either you can use an actual meat tenderizer (which looks like a Medieval torture device) or a knife.
   
   The choice is yours. , Tenderizing meat essentially means that you are pre-chewing the meat with a tool to make it thinner and more tender.
   
   If you are using a meat tenderizer, hold it in your hand and bang on the meat like you would with a hammer and nail.
   
   Hit the meat evenly over the whole surface, flip it over, and continue to hit the meat with the mallet.
   
   If you are using a knife, make cuts or scores that go across the muscles fibers.
   
   Your cuts should be long and thin but necessarily very deep.
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   Step 3: Tenderize your meat.

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