Beef Butchery - Cutting the Teres Major

An expert butcher at Silver Fern Farms demonstrates how the teres major (aka petite tender, shoulder tender) is cut from a side of beef. Order this grass-fed beef: Transcript: “The teres major, also known as the petite tender, comes from the animal’s shoulder, and gets little use, making it one of the tenderist cuts. To get the teres major off of the carcass, the clod, which is also part of the chuck, needs to be removed first. This cut is also used to make the f
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