The Butcher's Chart — An Interactive 3D Guide to the Beef Carcass

The Butcher's Chart

Sharpening the knives…

The Beef Carcass · Twelve Cuts · One Animal

The Butcher's
Chart

Step up to the block. Orbit a charcoal-rendered cow, scope the camera into any primal or subprimal, and read the dossier — where the cut sits, how it worked, and exactly what you can cook with it.

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This guide is a real-time 3D scene and your browser isn't offering WebGL, so the carcass can't be drawn. Try a current version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge with hardware acceleration on. Until then, the full reference text is below — every cut, its history, character, and what to cook with it.