Meat Recipes: Roasting, Skillet Tips & Slow Cooker Cuts

Meat recipes for every occasion include slow-cooked elk, low-sodium pork tenderloin, and perfectly seared filet mignon. Master oven-roasting in bags and electric smoker techniques for the best pulled pork.

How to Turn a Chuck Roast Into Steak

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Vesna Vuynovich Kovach

A roast is a cylindrical or oblong piece of muscle meat in which the grain runs in the same direction as the long side of the meat. A steak is that same piece of meat cut into slices 1 to 3 inches thick. Chuck comes from the shoulder of the beef cattle.

Software developer Vesna Vuynovich Kovach has been a writer since the waning years of the 20th century, cutting her teeth publishing articles about the growing Internet culture and the cooking habits of local personalities. Her degrees in philosophy and computer programming inform the thoughtful, playful perspective she brings to whole-foods cookbooks such as "The Low-Carb and Paleo Breakfast Book."