Meats Evaluation Contest

Meats Evaluation Virtual Contest

Important Contest Information

• Contest Date: September 28, 2021 after school @ Apalachee High School.

• Contest Format: 25 Multiple Choice Quiz, 20 Retail ID Cuts, Placing Classes, and Questions on Placing Classes.

• Practice: During regular class time, evening, weekends, etc.

• Class Credit: Check Schoology at the beginning of each class and complete the assigned activity for the day.

Open Ended

What day and time is the contest?

Identification Exam

• You will have pictures of raw cuts of meat. You will need to identify the following information for each cut:

• Species, Primal, Retail Cut, and Cooking Method

• Species: Beef, Pork, or Lamb

• Primal: The part of the animal the cut comes from (varies by species).

• Retail Cut: The name that the cut is called when you would buy it at the store (varies by species).

• Cooking Method: Moist (M), Dry (D), or Dry/Moist (D/M)

Multiple Select

Check ALL of the items you must be able to answer for each identification item:

• Primal

• Species

• Retail Cut

• Cooking Method

• None Of These

Placing Classes

• You will have up to 5 placing classes. Each placing class will be made up of 4 items. You will place the items in order from the best to the worst

• Potential Placing Classes are: Carcasses (Beef, Pork or Lamb), Wholesale cuts (Beef, Pork, or Lamb), & Retail Cuts (Beef, Pork, or Lamb)

• There will most likely be one class from each of the 3 categories but they could be any combination.

Multiple Choice

How many Placing Questions will you have to judge?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

• Up to 5

Multiple Choice

How many items will be in each judging class?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Multiple Choice

How many items will be in each judging class?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5