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The steak that skipped leg day and spent it all on marbling instead.
means A beef steak cut from the rib section, prized for the rich strip of fat marbling through its center that bastes the meat as it cooks.
from Straightforwardly descriptive: it's the 'eye' — the round, tender central muscle (longissimus dorsi) — cut from the 'rib' section of the cow, typically ribs six through twelve. No hidden story here; butchers named it exactly what it is, long before the compound became standard English in the 20th century.
- origin cut
- comes from the rib primal, ribs six through twelve
- fat content
- highest marbling of common steaks, hence the flavor
- bone-in name
- called a cowboy steak when the rib bone stays attached
- key muscle
- spinalis dorsi, the cap, is the best part