Cooking Variety Meats

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Professional Cooking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2014

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Variety meats, also known as offal, include the organs, glands, and other meats that don’t form a part of the dressed carcass of the animal.

For cooking purposes, we can divide the most popular variety meats into two groups:
Glandular Meats Muscle Meats
Liver Heart
Kidneys Tongue
Sweetbreads Tripe
Brains Oxtails
Glandular meats do not consist of muscle tissue like regular meats but instead are internal organs or glands. This fact is important for two reasons: