Butcher
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Occupation type | Vocation |
Activity sectors | Manufacturing |
Description | |
Fields of employment | Retail |
Related jobs | Animal husbandry |
A butcher is a person who may
Butchery is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the
Standards and practices of butchery differ between countries, regions and ethnic groups. Variation with respect to the types of animals that are butchered as well as the cuts and parts of the animal that are sold depends on the types of foods that are prepared by the butcher's customers.
Duties
After the carcasses are chilled (unless "hot-boned"), primary butchery consists of selecting carcasses, sides, or quarters from which primal cuts can be produced with the minimum of wastage; separating the primal cuts from the carcass; trimming primal cuts and preparing them for secondary butchery or sale; and storing cut meats. Secondary butchery involves boning, trimming and value-adding of primal cuts, in preparation for sale. Historically, primary and secondary butchery were performed in the same establishment, but the advent of methods of preservation (vacuum packing) and low cost transportation has largely separated them.
In parts of the world, it is common for butchers to perform many or all of the butcher's duties. Where refrigeration is less common, these skills are required to sell the meat of slaughtered animals.
Butcher shop
Butchers sell their goods in specialized stores, commonly termed a butcher shop (American English), butchery (South African English) or butcher's shop (British English). Butchers at a butcher shop may perform primary butchery, but will typically perform secondary butchery to prepare fresh cuts of meat for sale. These shops may also sell related products, such as Charcuterie, hot food (using their own meat products), food preparation supplies, baked goods and grocery items. Butcher shops can have a wider variety of animal types, meat cuts and quality of cuts. Additionally, butcher shops may focus on a particular culture, or nationality, of meat production. Some butcher shops, termed "meat delis", may also include a delicatessen.
In the United States and Canada, butcher shops have become less common because of the increasing popularity of supermarkets and warehouse clubs. Many remaining ones are aimed at Hispanic and other immigrants or, more recently, those looking for organic offerings.[6] Supermarkets employ butchers for secondary butchery, but in the United States even that role is diminished with the advent of "case-ready" meat, where the product is packaged for retail sale at the packinghouse or specialized central processing plants. [citation needed]
Primal cut
A primal cut is a piece of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering. Different countries and cultures make these cuts in different ways, and primal cuts also differ between type of carcass. The British, American and French primal cuts all differ in some respects. One notable example with pork is fatback, which in Europe is an important primal cut of pork, but in North America is regarded as trimmings to be used in sausage or rendered into lard. The primal cuts may be sold complete or cut further.
Metaphorical use
- See also Butcher (disambiguation)
The term can also be used in a semi-humorous or metaphorical way to describe someone whose actions resemble the various skills and methods of a butcher (chopping, cutting, slicing, stabbing etc.) Spanish footballer Andoni Goikoetxea was popularly ascribed the epithet "The Butcher of Bilbao" in recognition of his perceived aggressive style of play and frequent, sometimes injurious, challenges on opposing players.
Gallery
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A butcher's display in Morocco
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Meat sellers at market, Andahuaylas, Peru
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A butcher at work in Aleppo, Syria
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Leg changing system in a slaughterhouse
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A Butcher's Stall, Turkestan, between 1865 and 1872
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Primary butchery in ameat packingplant, 1873
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Butcher in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1955
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Butcher at Tekka market
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Butchers cutting chicken in Kenya
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Butcher stall in Nigeria
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Butcher in Mali
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Butcher stall in Shueisian Temple Market, Taiwan
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Butcher in Tunisia
Notable butchers and butcher shops
- Dario Cecchini
- Lobel's of New York
- Tom Mylan
- Omaha Steaks
- Arthur Orton
- Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors
- Salt Bae
See also
- Charcuterie
- Meat cutter
- Meat price
- Qassab
- Qureshi
- Sausage making
- Victualler
- Butcher knife
- Butcher soup
- Boeuf gras
References
- ^ "Merriam-Webster's Dictionary's definition of "butcher"". Archived from the original on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ "Employment information for butchers". Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ "York Butchers' Guild". Yorkbutchersgild.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ^ "Job futures statistics". Servicecanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Master Butcher's Guide". Members.shaw.ca. Archived from the original on 2006-09-23.
- ^ "Small butcher shops are in 'a renaissance.' How did they survive the supermarket offensive?". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
External links
- Definitions from Wiktionary
- Media from Commons
- Quotations from Wikiquote
- Data from Wikidata