BBQ Tip of the Day: Tenderizing Beef

Here are three different ways to tenderize your piece of beef before cooking:

•  Whack It – you know that hammer in your drawer of kitchen tools?  Yeah use that!  The thicker the piece of meat, the harder you can hit the meat! You might want to cover the meat with plastic or something else to keep blood and juices from splattering all over you.
• Marinate – after hammering your meat, use your favorite marinade to flavor your meat and to also soften the damaged fibers.
• Thirdly, let your finished, cooked meat sit for about ten minutes before digging in.  Cut your meat against the grain of the meat fibers or perpendicular to the strands of beef in very thin cuts.  This aids in presentation and further tenderizes the meat for your guests before eating!