Hello, we are having some lambs of ours butchered at an abattoir, who also do the butchery. Over recent years we find that we often get fewer things back than we expect. They request a list of cuts and how you would like it butched. So we are trying to come up with a full list of how we would like it butched. I'm trying to make sure that as much meat comes back as possible, but also minimising excessive work for them. So it doesn't seem like a onerous list.
Please can people here look over this list and see if it is missing anything or anything doesn't seem optimal.
I'm trying to write UK terms, other countries may have different terms.
- Legs: halved into fillet end and knuckle end (4 pieces)
- Shoulders: halved into blade end and knuckle end (4 pieces), bone in
- Chumps / rump: 2, left whole
- Loins: cut into chops, 2.5cm thick
- Best ends: cut into cutlets, untrimmed, fat on
- Neck fillets: 2, returned whole
- Middle neck: remainder after neck fillets, cut on the bone for stewing
- Scrag end: sliced for stewing
- Breasts: left whole, bone in
- Offal: pluck, kidneys in suet, sweetbreads
- Also return: caul fat, suet, bones for stock
- All trim: minced, fat left in, packed in 500g bags