fat trimming
Cutting off excess
Fat trimming is the removal of excess fat from meat before or after cooking.
Butchers and home cooks trim fat to reduce greasiness or for health reasons: The recipe calls for fat trimming before you season the roast.
Figuratively, fat trimming means cutting unnecessary expenses or inefficiencies: The new CEO's fat trimming eliminated three departments.
- butcherOne who sells cuts
- cutting boardSurface for slicing food
- knifeSharp cutting utensil
- kitchen shearsHeavy-duty culinary cutters
- slicingCutting into portions
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- butcherybutcher, meat, butchering, beef, slaughter
- trimming typespruning, clipping, snipping, shearing, thinning
- curingdry curing, sugar curing, smoke curing, curing, brining
- fish prepfilleting, scaling, gutting, deboning, skinning
- game butcheringfield dressing, gutting, skinning, quartering, butchering