Beef

Beef shank

Hasstek

92°CRest 45 min

Cook to this all the way through

Bone-in and collagen-heavy. This takes hours.

Safe minimum 63°CUSDA

Where it comes fromShank

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On the grill

Dense with connective tissue and a marrow-filled bone, shank needs long indirect heat, ideally cut into thick cross-section discs, osso buco style.

Nothing about this cut is fast. Budget 3–4 hours at 120 °C and judge it by how easily a fork twists in the meat, not the clock.

Seasoning

In the grill

110 °Cindirect

This takes hours. The fire is barely alive and the meat is never over it.

Smoke it with oak, hickory or mesquite.

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