| If you've selected pork, beef, chicken or turkey, it's important to tenderize it. |
| Meat and poultry can be marinated for several hours or days to tenderize or add flavor. |
| To get the steak ready, lay it between two sheets of plastic wrap and tenderize it by pounding it flat with a meat mallet. |
| The use of enzymes to tenderize meat sounds like a product of modern biotechnology, but is an ancient technique. |
| Some recipes state to marinate meat and poultry for several hours or days, either to tenderize or add flavor. |
| Ground beef is easy to work with because there's no bone, extraneous gristle or visible fat to trim, and no pounding needed to flatten or marinating to tenderize. |
