Glossary
Meat Trimmer Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential meat trimmer terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key meat trimmer vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in meat trimmer training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Boning knife
- Knife for deboning.
- Chain mail glove
- Cut protection.
- Cold chain
- Keeping food cold.
- Contamination
- Unsafe matter.
- Ergonomics
- Fitting work to people.
- HACCP
- Food safety plan.
- Line speed
- Pace of the line.
- Portion
- Sized piece.
- Primal cut
- Large section.
- Rotation
- Switching tasks.
- Sanitation
- Cleaning to kill germs.
- Steel
- Knife honing rod.
- Trim spec
- Required fat level.
- USDA inspector
- Federal food inspector.
- Yield
- Usable meat.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Meat Trimmer practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Meat Trimmer training.
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