CULA 150: Culinary Meat Fundamentals

This course focuses on educating the professional meat cutter from the culinary arts perspective. Students will learn basic kitchen safety and sanitation, equipment identification, and muscle structure and how it relates to cooking methods. The lab portion of the course will teach students basic knife skills, how to season and cook proteins using the various cooking methods, and how to advise customers (home cooks) to best utilize the various retail cuts. Students will develop a greater understanding of what the cuts of meat are and what customers can do with those cuts.