Curious about where chuck, rib, loin, and brisket come from? Danilo Alfaro has published more than 800 recipes and tutorials focused on making complicated culinary techniques approachable to home cooks. Beef is divided into large beef bottom round thin sliced recipes called primal cuts, which you can see in our beef cuts chart.
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These primal beef cuts, or “primals,” are then broken down further into subprimals, or “food-service cuts. These are then sliced and chopped into individual steaks, roasts, and other retail cuts. A side of beef is literally one side of the beef carcass that is split through the backbone. Each side is then halved between the 12th and 13th ribs.