Meat tenderizer

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This article is about the utensil. For the powdered meat tenderizer "spice", see Bromelain § Meat tenderizing and other uses, Papain § Uses, and Actinidain. For a variety of techniques for tenderizing meat, see Meat tenderness § Tenderizing.
An example of a meat tenderizer in use
Stainless steel meat tenderizer
Example of a blade tenderizer in action

A meat tenderizer or meat pounder is a hand-powered tool used to

tenderize slabs of meat in the preparation for cooking
. Although a meat tenderizer can be made out of virtually any object, there are three types manufactured specifically for tenderizing meat.

  • The first, most common, is a tool that resembles a hammer or mallet made of metal or wood with a short handle and dual heads. One face of the tool is usually flat while the other has rows of pyramid-shaped tenderizers.[1]
  • The second form resembles a potato masher with a short handle and a large metal face that is either smooth or adorned with the same pyramid-shaped tenderizers as found in the first form.
  • The third form is a blade tenderizer that has a series of blades or nails that are designed to puncture the meat and cut into the fibers of the muscle.[1]

Tenderizing meat with the mallet softens the fibers, making the meat easier to chew and to

palomilla, and schnitzel
, to make them wider and thinner.

See also

References

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  2. OCLC 233261474
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