Pin the doneness and method you just left against the pick on this cut’s sheet. Last-versus-now stays on this device — teaching temperatures, not a diagnosis.
Not medical advice, a food-safety certificate or a guarantee. Use the published sheet temps and your own thermometer.
Last cook—
This cook—
Cook sequence from this cut sheet
Follow published Heart — teaching, not a thermometer app.
Name the cut — Confirm Heart on the sheet.
Pick doneness — Target Medium rare ~57°C.
Pair first method — Lead with Grilling.
Keep safety note — Cook it through and it goes chalky. Best when the outside has colour and the centre is still faintly pink.
Last-vs-now is a pin — Cook-pair is a bookmark, not a certificate.
Heart: Medium rare (57°C) via Grilling.
Editorial butchery teaching only. Not HACCP or medical advice.
Substitute cut and safety stop
After the cook sequence for Heart, a second sheet pass: published swap cut plus the safety line already on this page.
Name the printed substitute — If Heart is missing at the counter, the sheet points to related cut Tongue — same atlas, not inventing a new primal.
Check shared method fit — Prefer a published method that still fits the substitute; lead method on this sheet is Grilling.
Hard stop on safety — Cook it through and it goes chalky. Best when the outside has colour and the centre is still faintly pink.
Keep cook-pair as a pin — Saving a cook-pair bookmarks this sheet; it is not a food-safety certificate.
Heart → swap toward Tongue; stop on the printed safety line before plating.
Editorial butchery teaching only. Not HACCP or medical advice.
Cook, swap, or skip
Kitchen teaching. Not a food-safety certificate.
Doneness and method on this cut
What temperature does this page recommend for this cut?
The cut sheet already prints High heat, brief (Up to medium) for Heart. That is the published recommendation on this page, not a live thermometer reading.
Which cooking method fits this cut?
This sheet lists Grilling · Skewers · Stir-fry with fitness scores. Pair one of those methods with a doneness from the published scale (Blue 46 C through Well done 77 C). The cook-pair block pins last versus now — teaching, not a diagnosis.
Can I serve this cut pink?
Follow the sheet note already on this page: Cook it through and it goes chalky. Best when the outside has colour and the centre is still faintly pink. Connective-tissue cuts ask for time; tender steaks ask for a rest after the published temp. The safety note at the bottom still applies.
Is the doneness scale a food-safety certificate?
No. The pair tool and the recommended temp are teaching numbers from this atlas. Use the printed sheet and your own thermometer. This page is not a medical or hygiene certificate.
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A muscle that never rests, fine-grained and firm, with almost none of the off-notes that put people off other organs. Low in fat and frank in chew, it eats closer to a dense steak than to classic offal — which is why it is often the gateway cut for hesitant eaters.
Profile
Tenderness44
Fat34
Umami78
Price40
Pairs with
Grilling90
Skewers82
Stir-fry66
Recommended cooking
High heat, briefUp to medium
Cook it through and it goes chalky. Best when the outside has colour and the centre is still faintly pink.
How to pick it
Choose pieces trimmed of blood clots and white tendon, with a surface that is not slimy.
