These meat charts for beef, pork, lamb and goat are a great resource to help you understand where various cuts of meat are located on the animal. Please note that each is the intellectual property of the organization or person listed below each chart.
For professional-looking reference charts that will last for years, print-out any of these charts in color and laminate.
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Beef Charts
Cuts Of Beef (2012), Visual.ly, JPG, 497KB
Angus Beef Chart (2007), American Angus Association, Adobe PDF, 380KB
Angus Beef Chart (2001), American Angus Association, Adobe PDF, 1.9MB
Beef Cuts & Cooking Methods (2013), Cattlemen’s Beef Board & National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Adobe PDF, 2.35MB
Retail Beef Cuts (2015), Certified Angus Beef, Adobe PDF, 5.12MB
Retail Beef Cuts (2010), Certified Angus Beef, Adobe PDF, 410KB
Beef Made Easy (2009), Cattlemen’s Beef Board & National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Adobe PDF, 3.4MB,
Beef Made Easy (2005), Cattlemen’s Beef Board & National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Adobe PDF, 661KB
Beef Made Easy (2000), National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Adobe PDF, 1.2MB
Beef Cuts For Foodservice (2015), Federation of State Beef Councils, Adobe PDF, 4.19MB
Beef Chart (Australia), Aus-Meat Limited, Adobe PDF, 513KB, 6 pages
Beef Skeletal Chart, American Meat Science Association, Adobe PDF, 1MB
Good Eats Beef Map, Alton Brown, GIF, 21KB
Identifying Tri-Tip, California Beef Council, Adobe PDF, 64KB, 2 pages
Pork Charts
Purchasing Pork, National Pork Producers Council, Adobe PDF, 1.2MB
Hog Carcass Breakdown, University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Adobe PDF, 354KB
Pork Chart (Australia), Aus-Meat Limited, Adobe PDF, 224KB, 2 pages
Pork Skeletal Chart, Source Unknown, JPG, 155KB
Cured Meats Chart, Bay Area News Group, JPG, 272KB
Pork Chart, Smithfield, PDF, 86KB
Lamb Charts
American Lamb Cuts, American Lamb Board, Adobe PDF, 200KB
Lamb Chart (Australia), Aus-Meat Limited, Adobe PDF, 416KB, 4 pages
Goat Charts
Goat Chart (Australia), Aus-Meat Limited, Adobe PDF, 226KB, 2 pages
