Can I turn a roast into steaks?

Question

I just bought an angus beef roast and I am wondering if I can slice it into steaks. How will it taste?

Answer 1

You can cut the roast into steaks, but depending on the cut of meat, and the fat marbling, they may come out tougher than a traditional steak cut. Be sure to cut the meat across the grain so that you get relatively short meat fibers. If you cut along the grain, the steaks may be tougher and "stringy". Also, if you cut thin steaks and pound them flat, you can fry the steaks and the toughness won't be as big an issue (if you bread and fry them, it will be like "wiener schnitzel").

Checkout the following for cooking methods for various meat cuts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_of_beef#Cooking_Beef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzel

Answer 2

I assume we are talking only of beef roast as opposed to lamb or pork. It depends on the cut of the roast. If you purchased a sirloin roast, you can certainly cut that into sirloin steaks. The same with a chuck roast, although you probably want your butcher to do this as there are bones in it. A standing rib roast works very well cut into rib steaks. The problem with cutting some roasts into steaks is that the roast can be a naturally cheaper, tough cut of meat and needs to be cooked more slowly over lower heat than a steak would, and sometimes requires the addition of water in the process. If you cut up a tough roast into steaks and cook the resulting slices as steaks, you may end up with something that resembles trying to eat a combat boot.

Answer 3

You can with some types of roast if you know how to cut it or know a butcher who can walk you through it. Just realize certain roasts aren't "designed" to be cut into steaks. If you have a roast that is a traditional roast and that cut of beef normally isn't cut into steaks, if you try to cut it into steaks they may be very tough and not very flavorful.

Answer 4

It will probably taste ok but it will no doubt be on the tough side. That is why particular cuts of meat are roasts, they tend to be either tougher or contain more fat and grizzle that the steak cuts.

Answer 5

technically yes, you can slice the roast thin enough to make steaks. But unless you stew or bake the pieces, it will be a tougher, not quite steak-cut of meat.

Answer 6

place your rib eye on a sheet of alluminium foil...... unfold some margarine or butter over the actual,( be beneficiant) and sprinkle throughout with a packet of french onion soup mixture. conceal thoroughly with the foil and prepare dinner particularly slowly. approximately 20 minutes in the previous you're arranged to serve, open up the foil so the actual is going a sprint crispy. The juices from this make the final gravy besides...and the beef is so soft and is scrumptious with the french onion flavourings....you will have no court docket situations I promise!!! This grew to become right into a recipe my nana handed all the way down to me....the only difficulty I replaced grew to become into employing a low fat margarine basically to be a sprint greater well-being ethical sense.

Answer 7

Well, like meat! Yes, you can cut a roast into steaks.

Answer 8

Depending on the cut it will work. For instance a Prime Rib is a rib eye steak

Answer 9

don't over cook it.

Answer 10

I have no idea...
I think....
I don't eat cow..
-Nessa