tenderize
tenderise BrE

There are two ways to tenderize a piece of meat.

She'll work a note over until she thinks it's tenderized.

I think maybe they might have wanted to ask us some questions after we had been tenderized a little."

Time to tenderize the other side, he thought, and laughed harder than ever.

And, finally, they are aging the beef longer to tenderize it more.

What it gets here at least comes out tenderized.

For others, it takes less time to tenderize the vegetables and smooth them by machine.

He thought his own steak had been tenderized too much; it almost fell apart.

The tough cynicism is tenderized, though, by the genesis of the book.

Her back felt as if it had been tenderized with a meat mallet.

She should have brought the wooden mallet used for tenderizing meat.

First, they hung it up to age and tenderize it.

The potatoes are boiled in salted water for several minutes to tenderize them.

Not filet, of course, but a shoulder cut that he tenderized and grilled.

The meat is tough and typically needs to be marinated or tenderized.

Marinades are also used to tenderize the meat and add flavor.

His face, which looked as if it had been used to tenderize sides of beef, lost its tough, street wise edge.

Her tendons apparently need to tenderize before muscle can rebuild.

Sometimes marinated with green papaya to help tenderize the meat.

A pig's head is first boiled to remove hairs and to tenderize it.

In the following days my right arm throbbed as if it had been tenderized with a baseball bat.

Cheaper cuts of meat, of course, take time to tenderize.

As with wine and vinegar, the natural acid in the fruit tenderizes the meat.

Fish does not require long simmering to tenderize it.

Why do pineapple enzymes tenderize steak - and your tongue?

She says "at the risk of sounding like a piece of steak- they tenderise me."

"The faint bitterness of the stout also helps tenderise the meat and balance the flavours."

Best way to tenderise meat?

The niggling problem, when applying explosives to heaps of flesh, is how to tenderise without pulverising.

In addition, the use of specialist cooking wine in marinades can tenderise meat and is of particular benefit to game dishes.

To counteract the toughness, it's 'hung' after shooting to help tenderise the meat and encourage the development of 'gamey' flavours.

Meat is cooked for four reasons - to tenderise it, to provide additional flavours, to kill harmful bacteria, and to kill parasites such as Trichinella spiralis and Diphyllobothrium.