A meat tenderizer on a wooden cutting board. A cutting board is a durable board used to place material on to be cut Notice the small spikes.

A meat tenderizer can refer to a tool or a chemical used for tenderizing meat. In modern English usage meat most often refers to Animal tissue used as food mostly Skeletal muscle and associated Fat, but it may also refer

The tool is also known as a meat mallet, and is a product used for tenderizing slabs of meat in preparation for cooking the meat. A mallet is a type of hammer with a head made of softer materials than the Steel normally used in hammerheads so as to avoid damaging a delicate surface Generally, it looks like a hammer with rows of small pyramid spikes on the ends. A hammer is a tool meant to deliver an impact to an object The most common uses are for driving nails fitting parts and breaking up objects

Beating the meat with the mallet softens the fibers making the meat easier to chew. It is useful when preparing steak that is of low quality, and works well when broiling or frying the meat. A steak (from Old Norse steik, "roast" is a slice of meat typically Beef. For the device used to cook see Grill (cooking, for other uses see Grill. Frying is the Cooking of food in Oil or Fat, a technique that originated in ancient Egypt around 2500BC ^[1]

See also

• Cooking
• Tenderizing

References

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