{"id":71,"date":"2026-08-23T13:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/2026\/08\/23\/finding-the-grain\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:49:04","slug":"finding-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/2026\/08\/23\/finding-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the grain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at the raw cut before it goes near heat. Mark the direction with a small nick so you know where to slice later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why it matters more than the knife<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muscle fibres run in bundles. Slice along them and every mouthful is a long rope of fibre; slice across them and you shorten each fibre to the thickness of the slice. On a well-cooked flank steak that difference is the whole meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Finding it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Look at the raw meat in good light \u2014 the lines are obvious before cooking, and almost invisible after.<\/li><li>Cut a shallow nick at one corner, across the grain, as a reminder.<\/li><li>On cuts where the grain changes direction \u2014 brisket, flank \u2014 divide the piece first, then slice each part separately.<\/li><li>Slice thinner than feels necessary. A quarter inch is plenty.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are unsure, ask when you buy it. We will mark the direction on the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the raw cut before it goes near heat. Mark the direction with a small nick so you know where to slice later.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[28,25],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooking-guides","tag-carving","tag-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-butcher-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}