Brisket

[choochter]

brisket...on cows - what is it? what's it made of? what's it for? just wondering
this is one of my whitebreds, just calved a few weeks, not a big cow

 

[crofteress]

its made out of the floppy hanging down bit there on the neck and any floppy hanging down bits along the sides [ some have more than others, some have none] and the butcher rolls it up. You get quite a bit more brisket back from highlanders. From one beast you get 4 rolled brisket. Its very good from the highland or luing anyway

 

[Stewartry hill]

It's right tasty cooked slow in the Rayburn as good a cut as any

 

[Northeastfarmer]

My favourite joint of beef

 

[choochter]

are we talking about the same thing - I'm referring to the lump thing hanging down between her front legs?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

are we talking about the same thing - I'm referring to the lump thing hanging down between her front legs?

Yes that's the brisket

 

[choochter]

Yes that's the brisket

so it's meat?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

so it's meat?

Delicious meat....very fatty

 

[choochter]

its made out of the floppy hanging down bit there on the neck and any floppy hanging down bits along the sides [ some have more than others, some have none] and the butcher rolls it up. You get quite a bit more brisket back from highlanders. From one beast you get 4 rolled brisket. Its very good from the highland or luing anyway

when I was a lass in Dundee, if we ever had a joint of beef, it was rolled brisket

 

[llamedos]

The loose bit is the dewlap, the brisket starts below where it firms up, and between the front legs.

 

[spin cycle]

sorry strayed onto this thread thinking it was a miss spelling of brexit

 

[choochter]

sorry strayed onto this thread thinking it was a miss spelling of brexit

at least you might learn something here that is true....and useful

 

[choochter]

The loose bit is the dewlap, the brisket starts below where it firms up, and between the front legs.

what's the dewlap. then?

 

[Netherfield]

what's the dewlap. then?

The bit that's not brisket!

 

[Philip Watkins]

what's the dewlap. then?

Loose skin hanging from the throat.

 

[llamedos]

what's the dewlap. then?

Oh dear, now you ask! there are as many explanations for their use as there are varying size of them across species.
I sign of sexual prowess, a sign that an animal can appear larger to warn of predators, a way of dissipating heat, I honestly do not think the true function is known.
Ask @bovine
Species from bunnies to lizards have them.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

 

[Philip Watkins]