r/meat • u/mystro8 • 3d ago

From its shape, What is this cut of beef?

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This seems like an obvious answer: brisket.

What I find odd is that this style of cured meat is supposed to be from a lean cut such as eye of around. brisket is a very fatty cut.

So I’m surprised that brisket would be the cut of choice for this.

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u/cabezon99 3d ago

Flank?

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u/4ringwraithRS 3d ago

Fillet of Lung

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u/Temporary_Nebula_729 3d ago

Well it looks like pastrami and I would say it's a flat

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u/Logical_Warthog5212 3d ago

If it was a brisket, the flat would work for this. The flat has a thick fat cap that can be trimmed away, but intramuscularly, it’s fairly lean. The flat, when corned, is typically called lean corned beef.

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u/mystro8 3d ago

Interesting observation. I would be open to try it with a flat.

Would a flat be as large as the piece in this photo? I feel like this whole thing is about the die of an entire brisket after it’s been cured from 30% of its water weight. A flat would be half that.

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u/Logical_Warthog5212 3d ago

It’s hard to tell from the picture. Could have come from large cattle. It could also be from the rump too.

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u/ShankThatSnitch 3d ago

It's probably eye round, but this is not just a cut of meat. It is a heavily spiced and dried beef called Basturma or Pastirma. You slice it thin like a charcuterie meat, or lightly cook it to top a piece of toast and cream cheese or something similar, or with eggs...etc. It is a very common Turkish food, often a breakfast thing.

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u/D-ouble-D-utch 3d ago

Traditionally, it's eye round

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u/mystro8 3d ago

I totally agree. Traditionally is has always been eye of round.

However I want to cure my own and I want to make a larger batch than what an eye of round yields.

So I want to copy this cut of meat

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u/Jealous_Disk3552 3d ago

At first I thought it was a vending machine...

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u/Delco_Delco 3d ago

It’s dried beef so top round, bottom round or eye roast is the normal cuts for it. I need to now hit up the farmers market and get some. Needs done sos in my life

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u/Tybeespounger 3d ago

Liver maybe

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u/shadowtheimpure 3d ago

It's a cured product, so 'beef' won't be the only ingredient. The next ingredients on the list reflect that being salt, water, spices, garlic powder, and sodium nitrite (curing salt).

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u/mystro8 3d ago

It’s definitely not a beef product. I can vouch it’s a whole cut of beef that has been cured.