A Guide to Buying and Cooking Blade Steak
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What is a Blade Steak? – Nutrafarms
The spruce eats / Lindsay Kreighbaum
Blade steak sometimes called top blade is a steak cut from a muscle in the chuck primal cut specifically the top blade (or infraspinatus) muscle. The chuck primal cut can be divided into two sections: the chuck roll and the chuck shoulder clod. Butchers used to cut straight through the chuck shoulder clod to make chuck steaks but today it is much more common to separate the clod and divide it into its individual muscles each of which can be marketed as a new type of steak. Thus the blade steak now appears in the meat aisles of supermarkets.
Blade steaks are made by cutting directly across the tender upper blade muscle. The only downside is that there is a seam of connective tissue running down the middle meaning that each section of steak has a tough strip of gristle in the middle. On the plus side there is a lot of beef flavor in a blade steak and it is relatively inexpensive. Blade steak can be a delicious and tender cut of meat when prepared properly.
